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Hide your personal failures from social media!

Posted on 20th April 2017 by Pivec

Social media allows us to self-create a better version of ourselves, an ideal/ized life, much bigger and glossier than the “real” experience, but to achieve this level of perfection or seamlessness, it needs to be tailored into an almost a fantasy-like living, where there are no mistakes, no (self)doubts and no failures.

Posted in media, stigma | Tagged intimacy, media, stigma
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F-rated Films

Posted on 12th March 2017 by Pivec

The ‘F-rating’ system, invented by Holly Tarquini, Bath Film Festival director in 2014, gives “F” (or feminist) rates to films that are directed, written or feature women as main characters with their own narrative. It’s been also adopted by IMDb. To be awarded with one, two or three F’s a film must be: (1) directed […]

Posted in media, women | Tagged f-rated, films, women