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I learned a lot from my drag queen housemate. Living with a drag queen was kind of like cohabitating with a fabulous tornado, which also knows all the lyrics to every Cher song. I also learned how much glitter the human eyeball can withstand (a surprising amount). In the morning after my housemate had performed…

April is ‘Autism Awareness Month’, a controversial month for autistic people, mainly because the group who fronts it, Autism Speaks, has been linked to direct attacks on the autistic community through inhumane acts like eugenics and Sia’s unwatchable mess of a movie (which was also super ableist). Autism Speaks uses the month as a way…

In a Manhattan courtroom this month, the world witnessed (and by world, I mean those who give a fig about Donald Trump) another instalment in the long running American soap opera, Trump – America’s Most Wanted. Series 8 in our episodic melodrama has something for everyone; an aggrieved, convicted former lawyer, a smart-mouthed, pneumatically breasted…

Australia is in the middle of a rental crisis, in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, in the middle of an inflation crisis, in the middle of a climate crisis. It’s crises all the way down; a crisis babushka.  Anyone attending a rental inspection could be forgiven for despairing upon seeing 40-50 people, all in…

“No one was expecting this result,” said a stunned David Speers, signing off from his on-the-pulse Aston by-election coverage, utterly bewildered that the thing happening an awful lot recently happened again.  As with the Victorian, NSW, and federal elections, Australia’s highest profile political commentators appear flummoxed by politics, defaulting into perfuming the stench of the…

In the great circus of Australian politics, it seems that One Nation’s Mark Latham has once again taken the role of the clown – or perhaps, more fittingly, the loose cannon. His recent childish tweet in response to a gay colleague has rightfully sparked an outcry across the country, with even Pauline Hanson condemning it…

Fuck Nazis, fuck TERFs

Or how to get away with not doing anything much at all

I used to have a sweet, very traumatised, abominably stupid dog, who wouldn’t go into the backyard to wee if it was raining. She would stand in the doorway, looking at the falling rain, crying and sometimes pissing herself. I tried all sorts of different tactics – umbrellas, coaxing her out with freshly cooked chicken,…

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