‘You know, I reckon you would have been a suffragette,’ my colleague tells me over lunch. I beam. I commit the compliment to memory and revisit it with regularity over the next week. A couple of years ago, despite theRead more…
Shelf life
Moving consistently ranks as one of the most stressful life events a person can endure. Last summer, I moved. It triggered a series of events that resulted in some of the most impassioned and public conversations I have ever had.Read more…
#MeToo made a man outta me
**Content warning: rape, sexual assault** This is not another story about a girl who was let down by the system. It’s a story about how my efforts to help her changed my life. In 2016, a young woman who wasRead more…
Tainted travels
Passport privilege and borders are something we rarely think of in the West. We don’t need to when visas are seldom required and our migration and movement is not looked upon with suspicion upon arrival. Of course, this issue hasRead more…
Eros and our understanding of sexual assault
I remember originally reading Helen Garner’s The First Stone (I think I was 16) and feeling deeply disturbed. Garner was an author who I basically worshipped, having read Monkey Grip a few years earlier and almost memorising it since. SheRead more…