Oh, god I forgot about the ART.

Not in Australia; the discrimination laws allow for employment of groups for purposes exactly like this. Our equal ops commission even gives examples like hiring just women to make women of certain religious groups or cultural backgrounds feel safe. Unfortunately, it does mean that…

I have a t-shirt from Pearl Harbor which has the same crane on it, because the push is not to glorify war, but to push for peace. The two museums - Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima - are connected in that way.

Just a hopeful theory - do the sale of the plush dogs raise additional funds/awareness for those animals who we use to save lives - rehoming facilities upon their retirement, funds to enable training, health care, etc.?

LOTS of close family members are cops. Don’t worry - Australian cops - significantly less racist and kill-y than American cops. But still racist and kill-y.

It is totally fair to call him out on the movies he chooses to direct. The key term there is, of course, ‘chooses’ - his choice doesn’t exist in a vacuum and he has chosen to challenge that context - but he needs to put his money where his mouth is. Why doesn’t he value movies about women enough to direct them? I…

If might be, if there weren’t literally hundreds of articles crapping on the BLM movement and POC protestors for holding Bernie Sanders to the same level of account as they’ve long held Clinton and the GOP.

Way better. But do not let people bull crap you into believing it doesn’t exist. Ignore all the grids and transparency. If you want to see how much I and a male peer gets paid you will also see that according to those lovely charts, it is the same.

“until very recently” - I don’t know. I think the spate of young black men being shot by police with little or no legal action is modern lynching.

The fact that you’ve had to add so many modifiers:

There are also about ten parent companies of big-name brands who HAVE fucked over their customers, make rather dodgy rip-offs of new colours designed by indie companies, and have actively covered up unsafe products.

Do you really do that? Because store-bought glitter isn’t solvent stable and will leech into the varnish. Anything given half a minute and a good swirl will end up being murky silver flakes in a yellow-brown base.

My base supplier - who actually supply to the big brands - is cancelling their neon tinters.

Oh, goody. So what non-indie brands sell them? Because I need them and would love to buy them on the cheap.

Follow the links and you can see their FB page. You can see them filming themselves and posting a quick little video because they’re so excited. It will bust your eardrums.

It’s also a lot like what happened to another Australian woman, Charlotte Dawson.

You wanted the backstory, you got the backstory.

Sounds like a dumbed-down version of The Honourable Woman.

I think, the difference is that in New Zealand that relationship exists between the Maori and non-Indigenous people because they are both custodians of the same country. But... it’s impossible to have that relationship when the groups come from different countries.

So, I invited my mum and grandies because I didn’t want a Hen’s Night, but a Kitchen Tea. One has strippers, the other has cookies. THE OBVIOUS CHOICE. But I had Long Island Iced Tea as well, because it’s my favourite. Anyway, don’t know if you have Kitchen Tea’s in the US but it’s basically a chat about life, girly…