Analysis

What is student media? What is the importance of student media? Lot’s Wife travels to Sydney to find out, alongside more pressing questions: why is there a man with a macaw near the Sydney Opera House?   Student media has an illustrious history– Lot’s Wife, among dozens of other student media publications, serves as an alternative form of news and media, specific to the University campus that the publication occupies. Each student media publication has its own story, its own turbulent history and beginnings, and whether that concerns Farrago’s (University of Melbourne) geriatric 100 year history, or of Glass’s (Queensland

  Nowadays I scrub myself clean of anything representing a stereotypical mentally ill person. No more will people say I remind them of Harley Quinn or Ramona Flowers, no more will I meet their sexualised expectation of a mentally ill woman.  I’m dying my hair back, thinking carefully about the tattoos I want, I don’t fall asleep at 3am with some depressing playlist, and I’m finally selling all my lifeless clothes at the Sunday market. I no longer identify with that. I’m not proud of it, I wasn’t happy, it wasn’t me.  I’m not insulted that I dress “basic” now,

‘The first televised war’ showcased the blood and barbarity of American imperialism. People across the world witnessed the massacres in villages like My Lai, saw the images of running children burned by napalm and heard the ruthless justifications like “it was necessary to destroy in order to save it”. They didn’t buy it. Although the US and Australia paint themselves as fighters of freedom and justice, their drive to destroy as much of Vietnam as possible picked away at the image of their so-called democratic war. Here at Monash, that politicisation was felt early on.  A radical minority of Monash