Greetings and happy New Year…

This 2013 Get Perspective blog is intending to expand into an online culture studies journal, piloting the project on WordPress!

In keep with our core aim of encouraging critical thinking by deconstructing political, social & cultural messages to provide an engaging perspective & incite debates. The online journal will be more diverse in the subject matters covered, it will also house and supporting other writers with similar interests and varied areas of expertise.

In this Get Perspective Journal intends to reach and intrigue the minds of a vast and broad audience from all backgrounds, from teens to adults.  With its content ranging from easy reads to academic pieces all written by professional and amateur writers, journalist and essayist.

It’s been a long time since I've read something that made me really angry and deeply annoyed, and this is probably more down to my ability to avoid offending articles then intelligent journalism!

So imagine my annoyance when I spotted on my Twitter timeline a tweet by Huffington Post UK declaring that "40% of African-American women avoid exercise because of concerns about their hairstyle, a study has found".

I've been reading a few books recently about the gender myth so this was an interesting find!

A Swedish toy company are promoting in their Christmas catalogue images of reversed gender play, so girls can be seen playing with trains while the boys play with dolls. 

I think this is a great way to diversify our gendered way of thinking especially that of parents (whom are in the main position to enforce gender play stereotypes on their children).

I have to admit I found this a tad bit extreme but I totally get the sentiment.

A band of Cairo women have grouped together to tackle the rising issue of women reporting incidents of street harassment by men.  This vigilante group, who call themselves Estargel (that's 'Be A Man' in English) don bright clothing and target men who sexually harass women by giving them a taste of their own medicine.

Rarely do I buy new music these days, with it being even more of a rarity that I buy music from male artists. Reason being that I just can not stomach the lies and hypocrisy commercially viable male solo artists spin with their predictable music and unoriginal public image clashing fiercely with the reality of their private lives.

As an Atheists I was skeptical at first about reading this book, since thanks to popular Atheists like Richard Dawkins (who's book The God Delusion I find too arrogant to finish reading), Atheists have been given a bad rep of being condescending towards religion. 

Thankfully this was not the case, with Alain De Botton's Religion for atheists instead being a quick and interesting read.

Being a Harry Potter fan I obviously had high hopes for J.K. Rowling's first post Potter offering. While I wouldn't say the book disappointed (she is a brilliant writer/story teller), I can't say I was much impressed either.

The Casual Vacancy is the story of a small English town reeling from the sudden death of a very influential town’s person.

With a fab 'A' list cast and lots of great reviews Savages fell disappointingly short of my expectations. Actually if I'm honest it didn't really recover from it's opening sex scene which then evolved into a love triangle between a half naked young blond called O (short for Ophelia) and her best friend drug dealer lovers whom are quite happy to share the same woman. Plus more graphic sex scenes.

Last month we attended our first academic conference in Oxford hosted by InterDisciplinary.net which was attended by scholars from around the world and explored the theoretics of fashion. The four day conference consisted of 13 panelled sessions where those with essays presented their fields then opened to the floor for questions and engaging debates.

Comedian, blogger, author Baratunde Thurston takes a satirical look at the notion of blackness while also raising some of the dilemma's society creates for those that are black. With the help of his 'black panel', a group of race keen comedians and writers, one of which is white (for diversity), Thurston raises topics on being 'the black friend', the second black President and the black spokesperson.
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