Tag: CULTURE
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Amy Francombe is the cultural critic the internet needs right now
FEATURE ARTICLE FOR TO BE MAGAZINE. Journalist Amy Francombe has had the kind of career that any millennial who grew up on a diet of The Devil Wears Prada, 13 Going on 30 and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (the pinnacle of investigative journalism) would idealise. It started the way most brilliant…
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Desire, delusion and the rise of magical thinking on TikTok
FEATURE ARTICLE FOR REFINERY29. Manifestation is all over my For You page, where dewy-skinned soothsayers promise to help me materialise my dreams. I’ve also noticed manifestation buzzwords like “abundance” and “higher self” seeping into the language of close friends. It’s difficult to pinpoint when these concepts took hold exactly — I’d…
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The wild life of Toby Zoates: Sydney’s squatting movement, acid, protests and art
If there was trouble brewing in Sydney in the late 70s and 80s, chances are Toby Zoates was the one at the stove.
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Better to squat than let homes rot: inside Sydney’s underground squatting movement
FEATURE ARTICLE FOR VICE AUSTRALIA. “Once upon a time there was a haven for artists, freaks, punks, pagans, renegades and junkies,” legendary Sydney artist and seasoned squatter Toby Zoates writes on his blog. “It looked like a forbidding fortress: a dark cubist castle clinging to some old disused wharves and, as…
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First Paddy’s, now Glebe Markets… Sydney is losing its soul, and for what?
Opinion ARTICLE FOR the Sydney Morning Herald. There used to be a karaoke bar at the gateway to Dixon Street in Chinatown: opposite the hula-hooping clown and the queue for cream puffs. You could stop in on a Friday night for free entertainment or a turn on the stage. It…
LUCY JONES 