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{article/topic_title} Gail Dines in the media

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If you missed Gail Dines in the media this week, catch up here. Gail featured on ABC's Q&A, ABC's The Drum, Radio National's breakfast program, ABC's Conversation Hour and Triple J's Hack. And The Age published this powerful. well-researched opinion piece by Gail.

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{article/topic_title} Gail Dines: Slutwalk is not sexual liberation

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A thought-provoking impassioned opinion piece by Gail Dines and Wendy J Murphy published this week in The Guardian and following, this piece in The Age.

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{article/topic_title} Susan Hawthorne herdswoman, wordswoman...

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Read berni janssen's wonderful launch speech for Susan Hawthorne's COW at the Spinifex blog.

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{article/topic_title} Cow in the media

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The Weekend Post (Cairns) interviewed Susan Hawthorne about her recently released poetry collection Cow. Susan had this to say about using the cow as her inspiration: "The cow is a really important part of Indian culture. It has a rich mythology and is important in the economy." She went on to talk about the writing process and being influenced by Tamil poetry's use of imagery and emotion: "I want to feel something. It [Cow] has to be more than an intellectual offering."

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{article/topic_title} Discussing porn with teens

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Author of Pornland Gail Dines writes about the importance of talking about pornography with teenagers at tweenparent.com.

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{article/topic_title} Spinifex author and Botswanan High Court Judge Unity Dow on RN Life Matters

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Hear Spinifex author and Botswanan High Court Judge, Unity Dow speak with Richard Aedy on ABC RN Life Matters program. Unity Dow, as a special guest of UN Women Australia, spoke at several events during the International Women's Day 100th anniversary celebrations.

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{article/topic_title} Spinifex Press turns 20 in 2011!

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See our blog for details of the journey from 'publishing experiment' to a strong independent at the leading edge of digital publishing in Australia.

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{article/topic_title} Bibliodiversity

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Spinifex Director, Susan Hawthorne has a new essay in the journal Bibliodiversity. She asks what kind of publishing world do we want to inhabit? Is a publishing monoculture any different from an agricultural monoculture? What does the future hold for small and independent publishers?

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{article/topic_title} Sandy Jeffs Highly Commended in 2010 Human Rights Awards

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Sandy Jeffs was highly commended for her autobiographical work, Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living with Madness, in the 2010 Human Rights Award for Literary Non-fiction.

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