Helen Razer
Writer and broadcaster @HelenRazer
Helen Razer is a writer whose work appears in The Saturday Paper, Daily Review, SBS Online and Frankie. She has previously worked as a columnist for The Age and The Australian.
Gawker suggests Rupert Murdoch may tweet while drunk. But Helen Razer thinks there may be a more poetic explanation ...
The true value of the imperfect, sometimes-amateurish Triple J is that it provides young Australians with a platform from which to critique confusing orthodoxies in the culture industry.
It's not that traditional media have grown more racist or sexist, it's just all they can afford to print.
Staying up all night bingeing on Breaking Bad hasn't just changed the way we watch TV, but the TV we watch.
Though satire has a rich history in Western culture, it does not win wars. And to believe that Charlie Hebdo was attacked simply for its irreverence is tragically myopic.
Men can no longer escape the harsh judgement of our intensely visual age. So how well are the boys adjusting to the critical gaze women have endured for so long?
We as humans are tempted to see patterns everywhere, where there are none. But our rational brains must overcome that instinct -- and don't publish the first thing that comes to mind in a moment of blind panic.
Change.org petitions and a manufactured Fairfax feud only get in the way of hard-hitting analysis of the real goals of feminism.
Stella Young was not exceptional because she had a physical disability. She was exceptional because she put everything she had into the hard, important work of social change.
Yes, gender is not natural. But that doesn't mean politicians should be dictating our Christmas present purchases.
