In the last few weeks, I’ve been hearing more and more about the Oaktree Foundation’s Live Below the Line challenge. The idea is to spend only $10 on food for five days – thus ‘living’ on two dollars a day, an amount that has been defined as the extreme poverty line. In return, you ask … Continue reading »
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Feminism as a Way of Life
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a long time. So when I stumbled across this post at A Bookish Beemer, and this post on being a bad feminist, I thought I’d get in there and try to get my thoughts out. Lately I’ve been realising how hard it is to be a good … Continue reading »
Blogging as Creating Safe Spaces
TW for mentions of misogynistic and rape-apologetic comments not published on this blog, just to be safe. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had quite a few very negative and misogynistic comments in response to my writing, and it’s gotten me a bit down. I’m very busy lately; end of semester assignments, (one … Continue reading »
Check your privilege: The Student Services & Amenities Fee
Warning: unashamed ranting about class privilege and selfish people. Last year the government decided that it would allow universities to charge a student services and amenities fee, which came into action at the beginning of this year. Since the invoices were sent out, I’ve seen a number of posts on university-related Facebook groups I frequent … Continue reading »
Angry Girl
I often have trouble with music and lyrics. I like a song, but the lyrics just annoy me because most songs seem to be about the same things: longing for someone to love you, broken relationships, angst. All that stuff I don’t do. Every now and them I find something that’s simply brilliant. Something I … Continue reading »
Speaking Up (is harder than it sounds)
A few weeks ago at work I found myself in a situation I hate being in: the one where you know you really should say something, call someone out for something, and you don’t. The situation was something like this: I was mopping the fruit shop floor, chatting to one of the women I work … Continue reading »
The ethics of food shopping
Recently there’s been a lot of media hype about the two major supermarket chains in Australia (Coles and Woolies, which dominate about 80% of the grocery market, for anyone who’s unfamiliar with them) increasing their reliance on home/private-branded lines at the expense of traditional, branded grocery lines such as Heinz. They’re even going so far … Continue reading »
