What would Punky do?

more about “Soleil Moon Frye brings Punky Power b…“, posted with vodpod Yesterday a couple of tweeps pointed the way to a video made by Soleil Moon-Frye (aka Punky Brewster) to celebrate her millionth Twitter follower. In the video, Soleil (of course, now grown up) goes all out in trad-Punky garb, whips out her phrasebook [...]

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Challenging the sexualisation of girls

Recently I was invited to contribute to an anthology, edited by Melinda Tankard Reist, titled ‘Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls’ (Spinifex Press). This extremely important publication documents and explores the harms done to girls by a culture that tells them that being thin, hot and sexy is the most important thing they have [...]

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A day’s a long time in social media (w/apologies to Harold Wilson)

Wasn’t it fascinating to watch the unfolding of a collective Twitter shout today? Around nine this morning, blogger and commentator @miafreedman tweeted this outraged missive: ‘Cotton On – how dare you. I will not be setting foot in any of your stores http://bit.ly/113gld #cottononaresick’. Her blog post told the story of one reader’s experience with [...]

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