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Cheek Media Co.
cheekmedia.substack.com > p > the-american-movement-that-wants

The American movement that wants women’s votes back in their husband’s hands

11+ hour, 58+ min ago   (343+ words) The sales pitch is togetherness. The real goal is completely erasing a voting bloc that skews left, writes Alysha Gray. “If you don’t vote you don’t count…. The voting booth is the one place on earth where the least powerful…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > the-creator-economy-killed-the-creative

The creator economy killed the creative

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (571+ words) The creator economy has changed what it takes to succeed. Not only do creatives now have to develop their skill set - now they’re expected to have an audience and selling capacity to make it visible. Creativity is no longer enough,…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > more-than-20000-palestinian-children

More than 20,000 Palestinian children killed, and yet Australia still looks away

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1250+ words) Last week, Cheek Media’s Bernadette Clarke joined 200 Illawarra locals to hear UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti and neurosurgeon Dr Ruth Mitchell speak about the impacts of Israel’s genocide on Palestinian children. The evening served as a stark reminder of how the…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > dont-let-israels-defenders-decide

Don't let Israel's defenders decide what counts as antisemitism

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (623+ words) Conflating criticism of Israel with genuine antisemitism makes Jewish Australians less safe, because it tells us all that criticism of a foreign government and hatred of a diaspora community are the same thing, writes Jewish Council of Australia executive officer,…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > no-one-wants-to-look-ugly-anymore

No one wants to look ugly anymore

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (850+ words) For this week’s Culture Bite, Emily Coogan asks: In a world where perfection has been democratised, now what? It’s a nice, light form of emotional exploitation within the safety of our own social archives. It’s also another symptom of the…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > australias-former-human-rights-commissioner

Australia’s former human rights commissioner says the state of international law has never been so dire

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (854+ words) Cheek sits down with UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti ahead of his address for the Association for the Promotion of International Law, in which he will present the findings of the latest UN report into Israel's systematic destruction of childhood in…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > as-a-survivor-i-refuse-to-minimise

As a survivor, I refuse to minimise my anger at the systems that continue to betray us

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (198+ words) As survivors, we are taught to keep our emotions out of it - it’s built into the foundations of our legal process. But we cannot be expected to switch off our feelings as the headlines cycle through a relentless stream of…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > how-many-more-women-have-to-die-before

How many more women have to die before our leaders act?

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (552+ words) 49 women in Australia have been killed so far this year. Yesterday, journalist and leading campaigner against femicide, Sherele Moody, pointed out that we have just lost three women to male violence in the last four days. You may not know…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > was-the-afl-ever-really-as-glossy

Was the AFL ever really as glossy as we thought?

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (88+ words) Hannah Ferguson | Substack Was the AFL ever really as glossy as we thought? Cheek’s recap on the week that was. Hello!! It’s me, Kalila, back from a delicious five weeks of soaking up the Italian sunshine, downing endless bowls of…...

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cheekmedia.substack.com > p > i-skipped-school-to-strike-for-climate

I skipped school to strike for climate action, but now I’d vote against protecting the forest

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1259+ words) Cheek’s Digital Content Producer, Varsha Yajman, unpacks how Labor’s Great Koala National Park is wedging environmentalists - and why the carbon credits scheme proposed to fund the project might actually do more harm than the deforestation it’s supposed to combat. In…...