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…
Sir
‘Hello ma’am,’ the charity woman called out to me, but then her face clouded. ‘I mean sir.’ Another flustered pause before she reversed again: ‘I mean ma’am.’ Years of practice enabled me to politely decline making a donation without laughing.Read 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…
The power of separation and divorce
My marriage ended in a scatter of furniture. To be specific, it was our household furniture. To be even more specific, it was scattered across the backyard of our new rental property after my husband told the removalists to goRead more…