In the past six to eight years in the West, and to varying extents throughout the whole world, a massive social and cultural movement has come to the fore. Its participants have adopted no single name for it, though the term ‘social justice’ is common.
Nothing Good Can Come of This
My belief that anger is fundamentally bad leads me to believe that if I express anger, I will destroy the bonds with people around me on whom I rely heavily. But, as my therapist has explained, anger is not a destructive emotion. Anger is productive. Anger is about setting boundaries. It’s about saying: this isn’t working for me, and I want to change it. That’s something you do in relationships you want to save, not ones you want to destroy.
Whose Feelings Matter in Literature?
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Going Meta
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Unhappiness and Related Fields
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Australia in Three Books
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The Disability Pandemic
The pandemic has been a brutal reminder that disabled people don’t matter. Living through this, as a disabled person with a wonky immune system, has been a reminder that my life doesn’t matter to most. Where I do matter is in my disability community, the community of folks at such risk of this deadly disease who have rallied and worked together to protect ourselves.
Looking for Alibrandi: The Forgotten Archived Stories
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A Flag In Common
On 20 February 1903, the flags of the new Australian Commonwealth, recently approved by imperial authorities in London, were published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. The blue ensign and red merchant flag were the result of a 1901 competition attracting more than 32,000 submissions.
Bloody Undies
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But for a Moment There Were Your Words, Forcing All Forms of Life Inside of Me, and the Parallax View, and the Figure, and the Form
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His Walking Feet
Yanggendyinanyuk emerged from the musty archives of Victoria’s nineteenth-century lunatic asylums. He walked into my life, took hold and would not let go until our journey became a story of truth-telling. While researching Victoria’s early asylums, the records of ‘Dicky Dick (Aboriginal)’ caught my eye. His resilient and adaptive response to asylum incarceration stood out; of the 11 Aboriginal patients admitted during the mid to late 1800s, Dicky Dick was the only one who did not die within weeks or months of asylum custody. He responded remarkably to the progressive treatment for mental illness pursued in Victoria’s asylums during that […]
