What I Got For Christmas 2016

Wow, I cannot believe that Christmas has come and gone. The hustle and bustle, food and presents are over for another year. I love this season, full of such love, joy, and excitement. I love researching present ideas for friends and family, find a theme to my wrapping paper, planning out my Christmas lunch menu and decorating my house.

This year instead of rushing around the shops of Boxing Day, I took a chill day and spent it binge watching movies and Youtube videos. Particularly a lot of 'What I Got For Christmas' videos. I love these videos, not only cause they are fun to watch but also cause I'm super nosey and it's interesting to see how the other half lives.

So this year I thought I would do a blog post around the same thing, so aside from vouchers and money I received, here is what I got.

Now this is not be bragging in any way, shape or form, I just thought that you followers might be as nosey as I am. This is also a way of showing my appreciation to everyone who gave

Send Me Nudes: An Exploration of Revenge Porn, Private and Public Spheres Through the iCloud Hacking Scandal

  

The recent hacking of celebrity phones to share intimate images of their private lives has become increasingly common over the few last years. Sex and skin sell, particularly when celebrities are involved and intimate images of celebs are readily available through cyberspace (Karmack,11). Because of the nature of these hackings and their unwanted release, it is arguable that these images can be classified as revenge porn, causing significant amounts of damage to it's their victims. By considering such images as a form of revenge porn, our understanding of the presentation of the ideological spheres of public and private in regard to celebrity can be exposed

What Do I Do Now? A Post-Election Perspective

 I sit here almost twenty-four hours later, my 'Making Herstory' t-shirt crumpled on the floor, the faint scrawling of #NastyWoman still on my wrist, the bottle of sparkling grape juice I got for the occasion still untouched, and I am still dumbfounded about what happened last night.

Now I am not an American, nor do I have any official say or vote when it comes to the American election but the last eighteen months I have felt just as impacted by this election, just as so many other international viewers have felt watching this trainwreck take place. I have worked to make my voice count on social media, made sure I knew my facts and figures, donated money to the cause, and made sure that even in my tiny country those around me understood what was up for grabs, and now I just keep questioning how we have ended up here.