Author: Anh Noel
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Gerwig’s Barbie, girls, and a Barbie world
A Barbie movie on face value, in the age of Hollywood intellectual property mining, would be easy to deride as a glorified toy commercial. She ticks off the boxes after all: cross-generational appeal, an iconic figure and hot-pink image, a cultural reference point that’s evolved to mean very different things to all ends of the…
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The Lore of the Domain Expressway
Sydney sprawls quickly, with new environments blossoming in each nook and cranny. As a result, disused sections are forgotten just as quickly; they fall into states of disrepair and decay to the chagrin of onlookers old enough to remember their glory days. But whilst once-flourishing environments rust and slow, sources containing their lore vanish. Without…
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Tharunka editor writes more emails than articles
An anonymous source (allegedly a Tharunka editor) has told Tharunka they’ve had to wait more than a month to get paid below the minimum wage after logging their invoice to Arc @ UNSW Ltd. According to the source, they’ve spent more than 50 unpaid hours resending the same email to Arc to remind them that…
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Naarmcore: the commodification and appropriation of multiculturalism
There’s a new trend in Australian youth subculture. It originated on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram as a way to show off one’s self-expression in a new aesthetic. You may have noticed the explosion of loose-fitting clothing with random graphics, trucker hats, baggy jeans, jorts and carabiners latched onto belt loops as…
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SFF 2023: Kennedy — the indulgence of noir-crime, tragedy and psychopathy
This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here. Reality tends to be a deafeningly dull echo of our imagination, often restricted in creativity and complicated with details. At this year’s 70th Sydney Film Festival, director Anurag Kashyap introduces the film as his…
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An Interview with Julie Koh
Lychee Lui sat down with Julie Koh, the author of Capital Misfits and Portable Curiosities, to discuss writing inspirations, the self-help genre, K-pop and Hollywood film scores. Who are your biggest writing inspirations? There have been too many to name here. In the early years when I was aiming at writing dark bedtime stories…