While sports fans are simply seen as being passionate, fangirls are portrayed as overemotional, hysterical, and, ultimately, stupid little girls.
On the third of July 2007, Transformers released in theatres. Attached to every screening like a parasite was an unlabelled trailer, comprised entirely of handheld footage. In it, people mill about at a going away party for a man named Rob.
I know what you’re thinking after reading that headline. Of course, university education should be free! Everyone should have equal access to a quality tertiary education, if that is something they want to pursue. But the truth is, it’s just not as simple as giving out free degrees.
Teen magazines are filled with celebrity content, and flipping through their pages would often land you on a spread featuring your favourites adorned in the latest fashions, partnered with a popular beauty line, or paired with a page worth of gossip and intel.
Greece may be a little late to the party in terms of the legalisation of same-sex marriage, but their LGBTQI+ community has been growing through the cracks for a long time, but now we may finally be able to see them bloom.
With a dream-like blend of fantasy, horror, musical, romance and drama, this film is like something straight out of the David Lynch playbook and is just as strange as it sounds.
Light, Dark, Light Again is an album that details McMahon’s journey with anxiety, healing, love, heartbreak, learning, and growing.
I want to celebrate my country, believe me, I do. But I can’t do that without acknowledging that our “boundless plains to share” weren’t ours to begin with – and still aren’t.
The music industry of today feels very different to the way I imagined it to be last century, in the time of Woodstock ‘69, Rolling Stone magazine, and the way music and the connections between artists and fans were the most important things in the industry. Maybe it’s just media like Almost Famous and Daisy Jones and The Six that have instilled in me a romanticised idea of what the music industry could be, or has it really changed?
After years of continued, grassroots activism, the conversation around unpaid placements and the poverty elicited by them, is finally winning an audience with the federal government.