A nightmare I have is that I end up where I started
CW: references to suicide, alcohol abuse For twenty-five years I lived without having an answer to ‘What is your biggest fear?’, but yesterday…
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I am not a poem // after Susan Gubar // women as art objects
Calypso Spendlove is a British-born writer living in Melbourne, she has been previously published in…
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Here
I’ve lived in the littoral zones that puncture coasts with sea air and sun. It’s always golden—inchoate rain torn away by tropic light. I…
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Rebel Girl You Are The Queen of Something Deep Inside
The growth-hormone injections I had to have every night before bed from age eight to ten did not make me grow as everyone hoped….
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The Words of Men
CW sexual assault and violence My life is becoming harder to separate from the news. The news, I have come to understand, is…
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Some things I have done and some things that have happened to me in Sydney: the first things
In this new column, Jessie will share as much as she can about things that have happened and things she has done in the…
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Don’t @ Me (An Interior Monologue): Juilty
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a cis, demisexual woman navigating the world in a nontraditional body? In this ongoing column,…
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HOW TO CRY
CW: Discussion of anxiety SHAMEFULLY The heel of her hand pressed hard against her cheekbone, wiping upward, switching to dabbing at the…
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Good to me
Everything that can act on a body exists on the scale between help and harm, between medicine and poison. ‘The body’ as artefact, object:…
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