Bette Midler has copped a swift backlash on social media after she shared her thoughts about gender inclusive language saying it was leading to women being stripped of their rights. “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us […]
Koorlangka Reimagined | His Majesty’s Theatre | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ Koorlangka Reimagined received a well deserved standing ovation on opening night of the Perth International Cabaret Festival. Singer, songwriter Gina Williams is the absolute star of the show. She has a wonderfully warm and cheerful and stage presence. She’s funny, cheeky and charming. She’s also […]
Hecate | Subiaco Arts Centre | Until 16 Feb | ★ ★ ★ ★ Yirra Yaakin deliver a theatrical project that has been years in the making, decades, centuries and eons. It’s a journey the company has been on close to a decade. An ambitious plan to present a play by Shakespeare completely in Noongar language. The […]
I’d read that comedian Pam Ann had once performed a special gig for Sir Elton John. The story was Elton had hired a 747 for Pam Ann to deliver her airline themed comedy in, all for partner David Furnish’s birthday. As we chatted on the phone, a few years ago now, I was eager to […]
Last week the New York Times highlighted that the word homosexual is falling out of favour with, well… homosexuals. In the article Professor George Chauncey, an academic from Yale University, argues that the word homosexual now sounds like your grandmother describing someone as a ‘coloured person’. In the article it’s highlighted that the New York […]
For centuries the German language has allocated masculine (der), feminine (die) and neutral (das) gender articles to its nouns, but due to changing attitudes towards gender roles, they may be set to change. Mark Twain wrote despairingly of this in his essay ‘The Awful German Language’, in which he said “In German, a young lady […]
