I am not your Asian fetish.
In my first year of university, on one of those rare occasions where I decided it would be a fun idea to go somewhere with sticky floors, dim lighting and $11 beers, I… Continue reading
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Lena Dunham on Girls: A new kind of nudity.
Trigger warning: Nudity and sexual references. HBO’s Girls provides us with one of the most thought provoking representations of the female body on mainstream television. Cellulite, small breasts, stomach rolls, thighs that touch. Bodies that exist outside… Continue reading
Abbott’s Australia: A Rhyming Rant
Populist politics, Men in blue ties Election lies. Xenophobia/Homophobia, Cory Bernardi’s visions of theocracy ‘Gay sex is like bestiality’ The conservative revolution, The PNG solution, Budgie smugglers/people smugglers Vaginas as a political agenda,… Continue reading
‘Popping the cherry’: Is virginity real?
Cherries, Flowers, V-Plates.. we all know the euphemisms. Growing up, I remember virginity being discussed everywhere. It was in every bad American high school show, the sealed sections in Dolly/Cosmo Magazine (which I… Continue reading
Porn vs. Reality
Trigger warning: Graphic discussions of sex. I’m not opposed to the idea of porn. I’m all for sex positivity, and theoretically, porn is an outlet for sexual expression and an aid to masturbation-… Continue reading
Working, Writing and Wrecking Ball
There have been a few writing competitions due at the end of January, and I’ve been on a bit of a writing bender. I’ve been frantically trying to find 10,000 words. And put… Continue reading
Sexism 2013: A Rhyming Rant
Trigger Warning: Rape and sexual references. Robin Thicke’s big dick Tearing your arse in two Just let me liberate you! Mixed signs Blurred lines, Inequality of nudity, You know you want it! Julia… Continue reading
Sitting at the adult table.
Over a plate of Vietnamese rice paper rolls with a new-found acquaintance, I was asked a question I couldn’t quite answer. Where do you see yourself in ten years? It sounded like a… Continue reading
Meat market
World peace, Body glitter grease Spidery eyelashes, Silky sashes. Snapping jaws, Taloned claws. Endless rounds of Canned applause. Aging MCs, String bikinis, Double Ds. Bare, No pubic hair. Performative, Heteronormative. Scrutiny of femininity,… Continue reading
Commute Communion
8:47. Umbrella inside out. Hair static. Swollen, stagnant summer air, ready to burst. Bakery. Post Office. Gifts from the Orient. Cigarette butt in the pavement. Tangled headphones. 8:56. Tram timetable, two minutes. Tap foot.… Continue reading
Katy Perry dons ‘yellowface’ at American Music Awards.
Katy Perry’s Orientalist performance at the American Music Awards (which is hardly the epitome of tastefulness to begin with) where she prances about on stage dressed as a pop culture geisha, complete with… Continue reading
Haiku: ‘Miss America’
‘Terrorist’ Nina Davuluri, Miss 7/11, Miss 9/11, Miss Al Qaeda, The land of the free. This week’s Daily Post Challenge: 5 haikus by Friday
Haiku Series: ‘Summer in Brunswick’
Last dregs of summer, Scorching soles, shrivelling souls, Reeking rot of roadkill. Buzzing flies, shattered eyes, Float to the top of my cup, Melting into froth. Pit stains on the train, Bogan sweat… Continue reading
Two minute history lesson: Bletchley Park intellectual badass Mavis Batey
I remember listening to Stephen Fry on Radio 4 talking about the advent of technology, specifically the panic over the Millennial virus (the infamous Y2K bug), and the conversation meandered to the story… Continue reading
An open letter to Robert Sterling Jnr.
I had the misfortune of stumbling across the free lobotomy that is the ‘Total Fraternity Move’ website. This unrepentantly moronic and self serving slice of cyberspace is the host to bloated leeches such… Continue reading