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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Abject Meatballs

Abject Meatballs is the co-production of Virginia Barratt and Helen Addison-Smith. They are unrepentant feminists who are radical in many, but not all, meanings of that word. They share a healthy interest in cultural filth and the queering of the word.

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9 July 201322 July 2013 · Culture

Vice and the sincerity emergency

Abject Meatballs

As the internet, and our society at large, is unprecedentedly image-based, the people targeted are ones who are visually deviant. In the new cruelty, the people are grist for our momentary lulz as we push our slightly less deviant bodies through another hard day in front of our laptops.