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Hannah Diviney

RMIT's Taylor Swift academic conference, Swiftposium, is handing the power over to fans with a dedicated 'Fanposium'.
It’s hard not to hope this is one final masterful ploy, a punking set to prove the pervasiveness of patriarchy, delivered with a wink and a nod to the audience that will soon be revealed to have all been a game. But nothing comes. 
Amongst a star-studded cast in Netflix's adaptation of Trent Dalton's book, Millie Donaldson is one to watch.
"Seeing women of colour on screen is the first part of true and meaningful representation. It’s hard to not feel disheartened when so much fanfare, buzz and industry value is attached to awards show recognition."
And just like that…we’re wrapping up 2023. What a year huh? Team MP doubled, we went on our first overseas trip as a company, launched an app, flew to viral heights all thanks to an unsuspecting sports bar in Portland, Oregon, launched an epic new podcast project and welcomed an unprecedented number of new faces to our feed thanks to the glitter of Barbie and the roar of the Matildas.
Sara is a force, using her lived experience to inform a career not only as a writer and poet but also as a human rights lawyer and community organizer.
One of the great things I love about podcasts as someone who absolutely bathes in storytelling, and clearly believes in the elevation of missing perspectives (ahem), is the fact that anyone can make one. All you need is something with a microphone and a recording device. There's less of the gatekeeping that can exist in traditional forms of media, news and storytelling.
In perhaps the least unsurprising move of the year, TIME magazine has declared Taylor Swift as their 2023 Person of The Year. Debate it as you might, given the state of well, everything, but it does on account of sheer magnitude make sense; she’s been everywhere.
For me, as someone who got her start at Mamamia at the tender age of fifteen, it was a nice full-circle moment to ask the first person who ever took a chance on me professionally questions around how she was feeling about this deeply personal yet fictionalised project being out in the world.
Dating app Bumble’s newly-released report of dating trends for 2024 suggests next year "is set to be the year of ‘self’ in dating and relationships, with more people looking inwards at what they value and want." In partnership with Bumble.

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