Content Warning: Suicide & Mental Illness ‘Nothing hurts more than realising you’ve been complicit in your own silence. Nothing feels better than unleashing your voice.’ – Clementine Ford in Fight Like A Girl I was fourteen theRead more…
Cooking as an antidote to alienation
At eighteen, I left my home smelling of crushed cinnamon, cardamom and star anise. I stepped into Australia in the intense summer of 2013. The air smelled of eucalyptus and rosemary – a smell that I still pick up inRead more…
Inclusivity, accessibility and empathy in politics
“My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.” -Flavia Dzodan, 2011 Content note for eating disorders, body hatred, mental illness, ableism, animal cruelty and misogyny. I am in the process of cutting out animal products from myRead more…
Sexism, toxic masculinity, and female fantasy writers
I’ve always thought of myself as a fairly progressive and inclusive writer, but apparently I’m not immune to the corrosive sexist tropes that squat, goblin-like, in the shadows of the fantasy genre. It wasn’t until I was hunkering down toRead more…
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut film, Lady Bird, starring Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf, offers a poignant and compelling coming of age story of Sacramento teenager Christine McPherson (or “Lady Bird” as she insists she be called). Of all the exceptionalRead more…