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Bejewelled and showing the world she can make the whole place shimmer, Taylor Swift is about to drop a bombshell. Moments after winning Video of the Year at the 2022 Video Music Awards (VMA’s) for the astonishingly poignant short film she wrote and directed for the rare ruby in her catalogue that is All TooContinue reading “At Midnight(s) We Meet Taylor In All Her Imperfect Human Glory”

This article was originally published online by The Daily Telegraph on 5th October 2022. It can be originally accessed via https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au

Hannah Diviney, Independent After you read this, please feel free to jump in my DM’s, or leave your comments/fan theories/high level English Lit intellectual analysis where I can read them! It would mean a lot to me (: Between the five of us, my family and I watch a lot of movies and television. ForContinue reading “The Lasso Way”

For millennia, women have been silenced, sidelined and ignored. Their ideas and contributions have been systematically dismissed or deemed frivolous, a surefire way to ascribe something inherently lesser value. They have been shouted over and talked down, to, told to ‘shut up and sing/look pretty/please their husbands’ and so on. The author of this essayContinue reading “The Dismissal and Invalidation of Art Liked & Created By Young Girls: The Taylor Swift Case Study”

There’s a little girl crying in the street outside my bedroom window. It’s a miserable day, rain soaking the ground and wind so fierce our old house creaks as though it’s getting tired of holding itself up. I know how it feels. The little girl’s tears are noisy, big-body wracking sobs of heartbreak, the kindContinue reading “I Have Too Many Feelings”

It’s the summer of 2012 and I am 13 years old. Fresh out of that first year of high school, no bruises visible to the naked eye but plenty of newly formed scars jostling for space under my skin. High school is rough. It’s Christmas morning. There’s electricity in the air; the kind that comesContinue reading “The Golden Age of Something, Good Right & Real; RED (Taylor’s Version)”

This letter was written on Dharawal country and land, the home of the Eora nation. This land always has been and always will be Indigenous land. It belongs to a series called Letters to Australia, commissioned by the Australian Multicultural Foundation. Follow them on Instagram @amf_letters. * Dear Australia, This is a letter about inaccessibility,Continue reading “Letter to Australia”