Honestly. I was going to happily post about having a story shortlisted for an Aurealis Award (which is very shiny!) and then I hear about a news story telling me that a NSW Supreme Court judge has ruled an internet cartoon in which lookalike child characters from The Simpsons engage in sexual acts is child [...]
Bill Henson and the Paedophilic Gaze
Ben Peek has written an eloquent response to the Bill Henson controversy. I started writing a quick reply to his post but it quickly became rather long and I started to say some things I figured might not be appropriate to stick in someone else’s blog. Probably better to put it in my own [...]
27 May 2008
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary . Tags: bill henson, censorship . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: 5 Comments
Kirstyn McDermott is an Australian writer living in Melbourne. Mostly. 
Well, there’s your problem!
I’m on a quasi News Fast at the moment. Mostly cause I’m actually ker-razy busy with a bunch of stuff, but also cause it’s something I do every now and then as a kind of media detox. (Yes, I have heard that Obama is President now. I’m not that far off the grid.) I just [...]
21 January 2009
Categories: (Anti)Social Commentary . Tags: news fast, passion . Author: kirstynmcdermott . Comments: 13 Comments