Sketches Towards a Theory of Existence
That night in November, I had allowed my MacBook to run out of battery. The screen went dark as I was waiting for the…
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SCUM INTERVIEWS: CLAIRE SULLIVAN
Hi, we’ve decided to start interviewing great people, because why not? Today, Sian Campbell interviews comedian Claire Sullivan, ahead of her upcoming MICF show,…
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International Women’s Day
The only commodity I wish to own is a pair of Dior Onde2 sunglasses. And the only hair I want is thick, horse-brown, heavy…
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Straight White Men
I’m bisexual and I live in fear of one day falling in love with a straight, white man. I don’t talk about my interest…
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Imaginary Uncanniness, Real Threat: On The Value of Monsters
I have loved many monsters. As a child, I filled my room with crude drawings of sandworms, demons, and marauding orcs, rendered all the…
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Rights, Rescue, Regulation
Last month, RMIT hosted an anti-sex trade conference called The World’s Oldest Oppression. The conference gained a spotlight of outrage online, sparking mass debate…
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The Politics and the Passion of Eurovision 2016
We were promised a naked man surrounded by wolves, but the winning performance from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest came from an unexpected place….
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Non-Monogamy: The Last Sexual Taboo?
Not long before my second wedding, I acquired the worst reputation in my then workplace, a community-based mental health service. This happened despite the…
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Masks and Glue
On a cool April morning, Brisbane wakes to find a new public artwork. Overnight, someone has placed a papier-mâché egg beneath a model dinosaur…
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