Intro post

Hey everyone. I am shockingly late to the party!

My name's Sally and I'm doing Communications/French as my BArts majors. In my spare time I am part of the UWA Pantomime Society, so I hope you'll all come and see our latest production: Macbeth in Space: A Romantic Comedy, at UWA's Dolphin Theatre this September 23rd - 25th (for those of you who are unaware, Panto is not mime, but a form of theatre traditionally based on fairytales and other well-known stories - with some innuendo thrown in - which encourages audience participation. Here's a link to some of our past shows). The show's rated M15+ and tickets will be $10 if you're a Guild member, and $12 non-Guild. Excuse my using this medium to do a little advertising, but I am this semester's President of Vice! :P


Anyway, as for something actually pertaining to the course, I found something relevant to some of the comments from week 5 that Tarsh recently posted, particularly, "it annoys me how we say 'race'. isnt there only one race? the human race? anthropology in first year grilled that into me."

Here's a link to part of the address to the United Nations made by Battlestar Galactica's Edward James Olmos. BSG is a sci-fi series which explores themes of race and religion, among others. I find that Olmos's speech quite nicely provides at least one reason for how/why the concept of 'race' has been created.

I'll be posting for this week's tutorial on Parental Control this week, so stay tuned :)

-Sally.