Dworkin dead

Holy shit, Andrea Dwor­kin died. She was only 58. Whether you agree with what she had to say or not, she star­ted a dis­cus­sion that changed a lot of people’s thinking.  I find the whole ques­tion of porn incred­ibly com­plex. I tend to think of...

Solidarity, guilt and privilege

It’s been a while since I’ve been made to feel uncom­fort­able at an anarcho thing. During the dis­cus­sion tonight after the films, there was some men­tion of the fact that most people in the room were white and uni­ver­sity-edu­cated. Good point. I have no...

Better late than never

Meant to put this up earlier: Film screen­ings: the pre­car­ity of labour April 10 (that’s tonight), 7.30pm 140 Barkly St, Brunswick (one block north from the cnr of Lygon st and Brun­swick rd) It has been increas­ingly noted from research centres to news­pa­pers...

Hot, hot, hot

I love this weather. I’ll just pre­tend I’m not at all per­turbed by its pres­ence in April and the implic­a­tions for ‘cli­mate change’/global warming. Where have I been for the last few days? Well, I’ve been grad­ing stu­dent work (and still have more to go on...