UK Glamour Magazine has included Suri Cruise in its annual list of the world’s “Best Dressed Women” Up there with Samantha Cameron and Alexa Chung, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter is rated number 21 – ahead of Lady Gaga and Sarah Jessica Parker. Suri Cruise is 5 years old. This little ‘fashion icon’ still […]
Sexualisation, violence, commercialisation, commodification: Right to Childhood conference hears evidence of harm to children The Right to Childhood conference last Friday at Sydney’s Wesley Centre was a wake-up call to a society hell bent on forcing children to be exposed to imagery and messages which wreak havoc on their physical and mental health. Initiated by […]
How convenient to caricature someone whose work you oppose by reducing them to a cartoon parody. Like I haven’t had enough Helen Lovejoy clichés to last a lifetime? Oh, and look, another media studies academic watching The Simpsons. Are we impressed yet? Where Stephen Harrington sees “a graphic critique of post-feminist female sexuality”, I see […]
