Dressember Days 3-5
Well, we’re on day 5 of my Dressember fundraising campaign for the the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia. You …
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Dressember
Lately, of course, I’ve been thinking about getting dressed and the place femininity has in feminism. And now I’m going …
Why I’m not an anthropologist
Have you ever loved to do something you were no good at? I’ve had to work really hard at languages …
People don’t need solutions, be they Pacific, Malaysia, or Nauru
Something’s been sending chills up my spine lately. That is, Australian policy on asylum seekers has been scaring me ever …
How to write yourself out of your own life
Growing up, I wrote a lot of stories. (Fiction is so in my blood that it still feels odd writing …
Why I Post Pictures of Myself on the Internet
I post pictures of myself on the Internet because it is part and parcel of blogging about my life, but …
Meet Cardamom and Pepper
On Friday, I brought home some gorgeous guinea pigs! I thought I’d best give them a while to settle in …
On the Christmas Island tragedy
Today, I am deeply embarrassed to be an Australian citizen. This is what this country’s immigration policies have done. I …
Constant Vigilance
To quote Harry Potter. It’s difficult to separate out my life into the disability stuff and what life would be …
Two-fold post
I am having one of the worst weeks of my life. (I’ve actually ranked them. This is number four. No, …
Memory
I am sitting in a classroom. The class is English, I am sixteen years old, and I am in my …
The Maguindanao Massacre
On 23 November, the wife and two sisters of Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu went to the town of Ampatuan …
Peeling the sticky tape away from sex ed
I went to a Christian girls’ school. Now, not to say that all Christian girls’ schools are run like this, …
Nowhere near good enough
If you’re an Indigenous Australian, I’m sticking a warning in here for you because you may find this post upsetting. …
Feminism that doesn’t advance women is no feminism at all.
I don’t like to do this. I don’t like infighting, I like coherence of movement. I do not want to …
