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US health care a sick joke that’s coming to Australia
First published in Eureka Street, January 22, 2015. Everyone knows that the health care system in the United States is an hilarious joke at the expense of poor people. The terrifying inequities that...
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Herself, Myself
Don’t even get me started on the weirdness of being a person who is also a body. And while, yes, I am totally hot, in this case I don’t mean a body as in an Elle-Macpherson-The-Body body, I mean just a...
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How to be Alone (If You’re a Girl)
First published in Spook Magazine, December 31, 2014. I used to think that my fear of nature was maybe a cover for a fear of some animal desire inside me to transgress social boundaries and enter the...
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Melbourne is a city of dank bars, unlit lanes and young aspirants. Perfect...
First published in The Guardian, Feb 10, 2015. The last date I went on was at a sports bar. I mean, was that a date? I paid for the beers. And then I saw an older gent press his face against the...
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Fake Girls
First published in Spook Magazine, February 17, 2015. There are these dolls you can buy on the internet that are made out of “rescued” Barbies and Bratz. They are called “Tree Change Dolls™”. There is...
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Ciggie butt brains indict Aussie middle class elitism
First published in Eureka Street, February 19, 2015. Like many aspiring intellectuals, I spent a good deal of my 14th year smoking ciggies at Glenroy Station with my hair smoothed into the tightest bun...
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A Small Voice
First published in Spook Magazine, February 27, 2015. The other Sunday arvo I sat through a google hangouts sesh with the editor of The Saturday Paper, and the comments editor at The Guardian. The...
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Europe’s more humane approach to on-water matters
First published in Eureka Street, April 23, 2015. More than 800 people died at sea whilst migrating from Libya to Italy’s shores last week. The horror has been described in the media as ‘Europe’s...
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Circles
My editorial from The Lifted Brow, edition 25, March 2015. I s it too late to spit on Hegel? What else is there to do? The girls are in charge now (no time wasters). Let’s spit on Hegel; let’s spend...
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The Tyranny of Career
First published in Eureka Street, 21 May, 2015. In high school they used to make you do these tests where you selected what you liked and what you didn’t like, for the purpose of helping you determine...
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Porn and Pleasure
I have an essay on feminism, pleasure, and porn in this beautiful edition of Archer, the Australian journal of sexual diversity. It’s in shops now. Filed under: Essays
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Maintaining the rage beyond the golden rhythm of youth
First published in Eureka Street, August 13, 2015. In the famous essay by Joan Didion, ‘Goodbye To All That’, the author describes New York City as ‘a city only for the very young’. I first read that...
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Breaking the Silence in the Kingdom of the Sick
First published in Eureka Street, October 8, 2015. Each time I step into my house, I peel off my clothes and throw them in the laundry pile, then I shower, dry off, and layer on fresh ones. This...
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Housing fantasy quashed by culture of entitlement
First published in Eureka Street, Nov 5, 2015. When I was a child growing up in houses with overgrown gardens and irregular angles and the lingering scents of sandalwood and dahl, the house I longed...
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Editorial – TLB #27
Published in The Lifted Brow 27, September 2015. When I googled Kat to read her work, it wasn’t her work that came up first, it was the elegies to her written in grief by our colleagues and playmates....
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No Alarms and No Opinions
First published in Eureka Street, December 3, 2015. In November 2015 I didn’t have much of an opinion. I lived, as many of us did, between various jobs and personal commitments and financial worries....
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Patriarchy is Other Men
Why ‘Why Courageous Clementine Ford Is Not The Answer’ Is A Misogynistic Lesson In Respectability Politics First published in New Matilda, December 9 2015, in response to this article by Jack...
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