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.
Whether we're gushing over the Apple Watch or shoving Krispy Kreme into our pie holes, these are experiences that allow us to see each other as social beings, not just slaves to the market.
Yes, "the personal is political", but your feelings on goat's cheese or yoga do nothing to inform the real ABC debate.
We maintain the fiction that media can provoke great change, but that's not really the case.
Sarah "I Quit Sugar" Wilson has declared illness to be caused by "female self-hatred". Actual scientists think somewhat differently.
It's not just that Fifty Shades of Grey is a terrible book (though it is). It's that it encourages women to become efficient, dull masturbatory machines -- just like men. Whoopee.
Talking about social ills isn't the same as tackling them, no matter what the media might be telling you.
You may think that voting for Tex Perkins will recapture your youth and save the Palais. But all it could really do is kill any chance of a Labor state government -- and unseat its potential arts minister.
Sharri Markson's incorrigible self-interest is actually a symptom shared by many journalists in an industry that won't stop talking about itself.
1989 is an ahistorical, destructive pastiche of a time Taylor Swift doesn't properly appreciate. Here's why ...
Hollaback has "exposed" the street harassment a woman faces in New York in order to sell T-shirts. This is not a revolution, it is capitalism at its most base.
