Every time my birthday rolls around, I wake up, stare at the ceiling, and desperately try to convince myself that I haven’t wasted my life. Every year it’s been getting harder. I’m a 26-year-old woman, 27 in May, and asRead more…
Mountain strength
I never went to ‘camp’ as a kid. Not the way they do on American television and not the way that Australian kids do either, with their much-hated pilgrimages to Canberra to learn about civic responsibility. As a weird, introverted,Read more…
Creating change through cooking – Heidi Zajac
Heidi Zajac is the founder of Cooking Circles, a unique, grassroots project that connect women to each other in Timor-Leste and in Australia through communal cooking, sharing meals and starting conversations (amongst other things!). That simple description doesn’t really doRead more…
Changemaker – Kiri Dicker, Think Out Loud
I first heard about Kiri Dicker in July last year, when I attended the International Aids Conference as part of the YWCA Australia and World YWCA delegation. There, I met Sylvia, an inspiring woman from Papua New Guinea (PNG), whoRead more…