In our current era, choice feminism and postfeminism collide inside an online algorithm which favours therapy-speak and is designed specifically to dissuade nuance and maximise profit margins, creating a toxic narrative: the widespread and mindless glorification of values and behaviours that uphold patriarchy, using the language of ‘feminism’.
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Consequently, the pill has provided me with a sense of agency and independence which would simply not exist if I continued to struggle with debilitatingly heavy periods and painful cystic acne each month. So why now, at 21, do I feel that being taken away from me?
Tumblr exhibits a unique multimedia ecosystem – one can “scrapbook” photos, textposts, songs, gifs, stills, and quotes, in a way that is structurally and aesthetically sound.
The most successful contemporaries in my field, young journalists just a few years older than me, are often better known as meme making, podcast hosting, social media icons than they are for their writing.
In line with the Americanisation of our political lobbying conventions, the positions peddled by “Fair Australia” and similar Advance-backed platforms have also undoubtedly stoked fear and hate, and re-normalised racist sentiments that have no place in Australia’s modern social and political landscape.
GetReal! BeReal is bad for our brains.
Some parts of our lives should remain private.
How protest media has changed in the age of shortened attention spans.
Nearly 40 years on, Cronenberg’s classic remains relevant for USyd’s student life.
Considering the benefits and detriments of online anonymity.
