Keywords: Plastic Surgery
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INTERNATIONAL
- Laura Kings
- 09 April 2024
2 Comments
In a world where the public appetite for private news on public figures is insatiable, how do we foster ethical media behaviour that respects privacy and dignity in situations like this? Would well-wishes for Kate's recovery, even before her diagnosis was public, have been too much to ask?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 23 August 2023
2 Comments
In Barbie, director Greta Gerwig maps out a journey from naive pink utopias to poignant real-world challenges. Drawing parallels from the 1960s Twiggy phenomenon to today's elusive ideals of feminine success, Gerwig's film becomes a mirror to our society's ever-shifting landscape of female identity and aspiration.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 July 2023
3 Comments
Can Artificial Intelligence write good poetry? While AI has vast linguistic resources to mimic human poets and creating compelling verse, there remains a distinction between competence and true poetic brilliance, mirroring the broader debate around our relationship with AI, and the very essence of human creativity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael McGirr
- 14 April 2023
5 Comments
What are the implications of widespread use of Metformin, Pembrolizumab, or Nivolumab, and what do they say about us? Featuring a humourless pharmacist and a thick wad of prescriptions, the story of our complicated relationship with pharmaceuticals is a meandering map of the human condition.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Lesley Russell
- 18 September 2017
1 Comment
Medicare-for-all is best seen as aspirational: it is shorthand for policy ideals and papers over political realities. With Republicans in control of Congress, there is obviously no immediate chance of Sanders's bill becoming law any time soon. But with Republicans and the President viewed as ineffectual in implementing their healthcare commitments and uncaring about voters' concerns, it is advantageous for Democrats to be seen to have solutions to the problems that confront their constituents.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Isabella Fels
- 09 April 2014
9 Comments
I am a wicked creature of the night. The more I munch in sinful silence the more I feel I am trespassing with the dead. Food did my head in even before I took tablets for my head. I turn into a beast with a huge midnight feast as I go wild with chocolate, cake and ice-cream. The pounds come on like thunder with all my eating blunders. I have come a long way from my bulimic teens, but I still am obsessed, and think I will always be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 20 September 2013
5 Comments
As a parent of a boy, I was concerned by Thomas' experiences doing 'sexual ethics theatre performances'. She recounts negative responses from teenage boys to one scenario dealing with pubic hair — the lads assuming that 'any girl with pubes would be so self-conscious about them that she'd avoid sex altogether', and that malekind is disgusted by non-exfoliated women.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Sleepless parents, on the eve of their child's surgery for a brain tumour, confess their fears to each other: that he will die, or acquire a disability. But they turn this, too, into a game. Far from making light of the situation, they find, in humour, genuine solace from genuine fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 02 March 2012
3 Comments
Invisible hands parted my gown and stroked my spine with stuff that was exquisitely cold. 'Put your bum in there,' he said, 'wriggle round till you're comfortable then lie back.' I knew very well that when I lay back, securely anchored by my bum in the space provided, the adhesive would hold me in its grip.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 04 February 2011
8 Comments
In many Asian cultures paleness is an indication of class and beauty. But why would Asian women want to look like Pamela Anderson? For the same reason white women do: there's a globalised beauty standard that is gendered, racialised, and hierarchical.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Alison Sampson
- 16 September 2010
25 Comments
One day when I was out shopping for underwear five women in burqas came into the store.
Chatting and laughing, they headed straight to a selection of lacy
g-strings, holding up the garments for all to see as they checked sizes
and made loud comments about each pair of panties.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne Doyle
- 17 February 2010
3 Comments
Before long we come upon an open stone building — the meeting room. We
enter to find 60 weathered women seated on mats on the dirt floor.
Their saris fill the enclosure with colour. Their faces tell the
poignant stories of their lives.
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