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About Me

***I've migrated to Facebook and only check MySpace once every couple of weeks these days.***Some people like to watch TV or see bands in their spare time. I like to do those things too, but I also like to run projects.
I make magazines and websites: I work as Associate Editor of the independent news and analysis website New Matilda .
I write: I am lucky enough to earn my living writing about whatever I find interesting, which is usually some combination of politics, social issues, gender and pop culture. You can read my work in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, YEN, Russh, Girlfriend, Huffington Post, and other magazines and websites.
I throw parties: I run regular events for the Sydney media and arts community through the New York-based organisation, MediaBistro. I also run my own monthly salon series.
I'd like to... start an electropop band that sings riot girl songs (I'd love to cover Hole's 'Live Through This' album, Girls Aloud style) ... finally put together a zine series ... remix Nelly Furtado's 'Maneater' with the Captain Planet theme song ... put together a Sydney version of The Amazing Race for my friends.
For more information on my writing, visit my website .
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My Interests

magazines, editing, publishing, writing, writers, people, musical threatre, theatre, philosophy, inappropriate conversations, karaoke, politics, meetings, salons, lazy afternoons, launch parties, banana bread, critical theory, music, creative people, feminism, fashion, dressing up, dancing, design, travel, road trips, running, throwing parties, witticisms, wonderboys, wordplay, zines

I'd like to meet:

Other people who are active in arts, writing or politics.
My top friends are in alphabetical order because I don't like to play favourites.

Music:

Regina Spektor, Persephone's Bees, Red Riders, Lily Allen, The Grates, Peaches, Hole, Garbage, No Doubt, Gwen Stefani, Courtney Love, Le Tigre, Avenue Q, Jane Vs World, Ben Folds, Ben Lee, Kylie Minogue, Spice Girls, Rachel Stevens, Girls Aloud, Blondie, Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Cardigans, Frente, Blur, The Veronicas, Destiny's Child, Veruca Salt, Nina Gordon, silverchair, Liz Phair, Alanis Morissette, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado

Movies:

I like 'em.

Television:

Veronica Mars, Desperate Housewives, Heroes, The Amazing Race, The Chaser's War on Everything, Today Tonight.

Books:

Highly recommendeds from my bookshelf: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathon Safran Foer), Wasted (Marya Hornbacher), Dead White Males (David Williamson), A Street Car Named Desire (Tennessee Williams), Fences & Windows (Naomi Klein), Gangland (Mark Davis), The Whole Woman (Germaine Greer), The Beauty Myth (Naomi Wolf), Olenna (David Mamet), Girl Heroes (Susan Hopkins), Ragtime (E L Doctorow), The Crucible (Arthur Miller), Prep (Curtis Sittenfeld), The Great Unravelling (Paul Krugman), The Indispensible Chomsky, Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Harry Potter (J K Rowling), Babyji (Abha Dawesar), The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner), My Sweet Audrina (Virginia Andrews), Don't Think of an Elephant (George Lakoff), Female Chauvinist Pigs (Ariel Levy)

Heroes:

Simone de Beauvoir

My Blog

Defending teen magazines + Melbourne Writers Fest stuff

Those of you who are members of the MEAA may have noticed that I have a story in the current edition of the Walkley Magazine.In it, I explain why I - an avowed feminist and progressive - considering w...
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:44:00 PST

In MySpace, everyone can see you preen

Check out my column in today's Sunday Age.In MySpace, everyone can see you preenRachel HillsAugust 12, 2007Page 1 of 2 | Single pageWHEN I first started surfing the internet in 1997, on a painfully sl...
Posted by Rachel on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:06:00 PST

Update, Schmupdate (AKA, just do it)

I've been thinking a bit about "young" and "emerging writers" over the last week or so, ever since I downloaded this audiocast of the 'Battle of the Generations' debate between academic Mark Davis (he...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:48:00 PST

Let us now praise editors

Great article on Salon.com. (Then again, as an editor myself I am perhaps biased on this one.)
Posted by Rachel on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:20:00 PST

An all-women political party?

The Aussies among you may have already heard about the new political party, What Women Want Australia, which launched at the end of last month.With over 700 members (100 of them joining within 24-hour...
Posted by Rachel on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:45:00 PST

Politics in 75 words or less

Some of you may have noticed that YEN magazine has launched a new website, complete with near daily updates. If you've already checked it out, you may also have noticed that I'm their issue...
Posted by Rachel on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:39:00 PST

What Rachel thinks of economics

Just when you thought my blog entry titles couldn't get any more exciting... I have a story in The Bulletin today. It's just a short review, of Daniel Altman's Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Econom...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:31:00 PST

My first HuffPo blog

I published my first Huffington Post blog this week, on why people can't help but tear apart Hillary Clinton. Check it out: Hillary Clinton and US Weekly PoliticsI also republished an Australian (and,...
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:52:00 PST

What happens in the Facebook stays in the Facebook

What do people think of this?Has anyone looked at MySpace's privacy policy with the same finetooth comb?
Posted by Rachel on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:18:00 PST

Ayaan Hirsi Ali interview

Probably the best perk about working in the media is having an excuse to meet interesting and inspirational people. In the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of the controversial bestseller Infidel...
Posted by Rachel on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:28:00 PST