fourth floor feminism | sociable speculation

I was tagged by Kristen , a real writer, who wants me to play with other blogs! It's been a long time since I've stepped into the blogosphere to be sociable, but it's nice to be back. 1. What am I working on now? I don’t ‘work’ on pieces of writing, they work on me! My writing comes to me in moments of extreme emotion, although lately I have been trying out a few new concepts that I keep hearing are fashionable with ‘serious’ writers like: Writing daily
 Writing to deadlines
 Writing to word limits
 Writing in a theme My writing is not something that can be tamed, alas. So I resign myself to deadlines that make a whooshing sound as they pass (I love you Douglas) and irresponsibly late nights finishing two thousand words that won’t let me sleep otherwise

! I write idealist political commentary, self-consciously literary travelogues and outraged feminist tracts here on my blog I write comedic Fringe plays that need to be translated from my rather overworked j

I would like to write about the intellectual, political and social dishonesty of the national conversation that the current Australian Government insists on imposing on the Australian public.

 To do this, I would like to start with exploring the basic philosophical problems with our current discussion about the various actions the current Australian Government has implemented relating to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Now, I take the view that the current Australian Government decided to manufacture a scuffle around 18C in order to distract the Australian public from more important matters that they do not want scrutinised. The current Australian Government makes announcements that destabilise the news cycle, and these announcements come in two forms: 1. An outrageous suggestion designed to let opponents react with scorn and satire, but neither suggestion nor satire achieves anything but noise, and a false sense of protest for those who did not vote for this cur