Amy Gray

Half a century of the ‘male gaze’: why Laura Mulvey’s pioneering theory still resonates today

In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an essay that reshaped feminist film theory. Its ideas still echo today, in every slow-mo entrance and lingering camera shot.

We love @horrornonna.com 'round these parts.

Australia's FOI system is broken, but proposed reforms miss the mark This proposed bill risks doubling down on the very problems it should be fixing.

Few scandals better illustrate the cost of government secrecy than robodebt.

But the newly proposed FOI bill will make it harder for the public to scrutinise the government and easier for secrecy to prevail

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Actual thing I’ve just said to my son:

“What’s genuine affection…no, go away”

Them: oh the audio is glitching.
Me: oh, no, it’s supposed to sound like that.

Every reaction to introducing someone to Captain Beefheart ever.

h8u

The implication of the blood being symbolic and not literal suggests that this McDonalds does not believe in transubstantiation, and therefore is a Protestant chain post-Reformation

[loud supportive ecclesiastical yelling]

The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value

Meanjin only cost UniMelb $220k a year?! This is CHUMP CHANGE in such an institution. The whole thing is infuriating. I haven’t accepted its end. Won’t somebody please tell me it’ll exist again somehow

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Holy shit this looks amazing.

Email from: Damon Young. Subject: Brisbane & Melbourne: I’m coming to you.

Email from @damonyoung.com.au (threatening)

About some sort of events that aren’t Pho-based and therefore useless: www.damonyoung.com.au/publicity

in honour of the kill james bond podcast bringing it up in their latest episode here is my jason statham trans man cop thread

Love you xoxo

So Victoria’s Supported Independent Living accomodation services are all collapsing. Having worked for a couple of years in one of those mentioned in this article, this is unthinkable

Please give if you can. Alexandra is brilliant at what she does, a national treasure and, quite frankly, a menace who should be supported in menacing others.

London Pride parade chief investigated over alleged misuse of funds Exclusive: Whistleblowers claim food vouchers for volunteers were spent on perfume and Apple devices instead

Another good reason big business and Pride should not mix.

🌈💸 London Pride parade chief investigated over alleged misuse of funds

Time to Reclaim Pride as protest ✊

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/03/london-pride-parade-chief-investigated-over-alleged-misuse-of-funds

Losing Meanjin means a lot more than one literary journal closing down. It massively narrows the space for criticism, memoir, personal essay, and non-mainstream viewpoints within Australian culture. And it leaves us wondering whether hollowed out Australian universities can still support the arts.

Gutted. A favourite title to read brilliant essays and an honour to have contributed towards the lower end of that spectrum. We are all in killshot fatigue.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

What’s the real reason it’s being shut down?
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.

A white woman with her long brown hair tied back wears a yellow and black top, sunglasses, and a smile like the Mona Lisa. Behind her stretches out a view of a tropical landscape and, eventually, the ocean. It's Erin Cook!

NEW PODCAST: “The 9pm Usual Chaos in Indonesia and Thailand with Erin Cook” @erincook.bsky.social (48m06s) the9pmedict.com/edict/00251/

Look for “The 9pm Edict” in your podcast app of choice.

Like it? Please tell your friends and perhaps even support the crowdfunder. the9pmedict.com/spring2025

Oh lord yes. Pair with with louche trousers, blazer or trench and finish with white trainers.

What Kate said - this is elite and I’ve been looking for a nice one (and failing)

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

- MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions.

- “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit”

By @joeygrostern.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Today in fact checking: cat girl or furry?

For a serious piece scheduled for publication in a world that doesn’t realise the internet was a mistake.

Have been messaging a selfie of every cig I’ve smoked this morning to a friend running a marathon. I hope they appreciate my incredibly sincere support and physical exertion.

🇮🇩 Indonesia shakes as protests turn to police violence and death There's no coming back from this one

I have tried my very hardest to make this read about Indonesia's last 48 hours as accessible and easy to digest as possible. The goal here is that there is NO assumed knowledge (except for Jokowi, i think I always assume him sorry)
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Dolly: tough on crime (Pom Poms); tough on the causes of crime (also Pom Poms).

You’re right: my narcissism and chain smoking is a better time than doing a marathon.

She deserves them all. Also, bring Dolly to the CBD so she and I can hang and do crime.