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…
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…
Riding a motorbike taught me about feminism
On a solo motorcycle ride there is plenty of time to think. In between steering the bike away from death, and observing the magnificence of the mountains, rice paddies and rolling hills, there are pockets of space to pontificate. RidingRead more…
In Control, In Command
1. Last September on the Camino de Santiago pilgrim trail, I found myself about-facing, hobbling back to the cathedral city of Leon. Along with my shin splint – I didn’t know what that was either – I was leper-like, coveredRead more…