- Melbourne Private Girl School Begs for Money for Equality Just for ‘our girls’ because feminism – Annie Moss Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
So yesterday I got a really important piece of mail from my old school, one of the more expensive private girls’ schools in Australia. They need my help to support their ‘2015 Equality Campaign’. I know what you’re thinking, how can I help some of the most privileged girls in the country to become more ...
Read more - Shrine Of Disappointment Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
I’d like to erect a shrine to disappointment. A mate I met knocking around writers’ rooms in my 20s recently said, ”Dev, gag-writing’s a young man’s game. By our age the disappointment has set in.” I disagreed. But I got it – the disappointment setting in.
I was about 10 years old when I realised my ...
Read more - Half-hearted escape into the unbearable lightness of footy Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
YES, I am from Melbourne. But no, I’m not into the footy. How about I stand still while the rest of you skin me alive with broken glass?
But I do have a team. Actually a few years back I changed from North Melbourne to Essendon. Informing my family I’d defected felt as if I’d admitted ...
Read more - Mothers Day Is Bullshit Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
I say this every year. I do not want/need/require/deserve any Mother’s Day cards, gifts or bullshit.
I do not need to be thanked. My kids owe me nothing.
I chose to have kids. No sacrifice. I did it for the same reason every woman with full access to fertility control does.
Selfish narcissism.
My boys did not opt into this ...
Read more - Exposure? Shove it. Show Me The Money Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
Career advice. Two things. Never work for free. Never ask anyone to work for free. Got it? Good.
I, like many freelancers, constantly get requests from businesses to work for free. It’s offensive, rude and unprofessional. And very, very common. And not just grass roots groups, multi-national corporations.
Let me share with you yesterday’s request which was ...
Read more - The ANZAC Spirit. Top 100 Hate Comments Saturday, April 25th, 2015
“Now, I don’t like Anzac Day for the precise reasons that I don’t like genocide, war, rape, violence, mutilation, pain, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, ethnic cleansing, gas attacks, artillery, conscription, nationalism, imperialism and death machines. It’s probably just me. I wrote something about Anzac Day because to me it is not about a chewy biscuit, ...
Read more - Tips From A Barely Adequate Mother Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
Some call me a bad mother. I prefer to think of myself as relaxed. I don’t know what my kids think of me, but they call me hell in a skin suit, the fat maggot and Exhibit A. In front of the child protection officers. We love playing pretend. I pretend to be ...
Read more - 20 things I tell myself when I write Monday, April 13th, 2015
No matter how slow you’re going you’re lapping everyone on the couch.
Art is never finished. It’s just abandoned.
Do what you can where you are with what you have.
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Do something today your future self will thank you for.
When you don’t know what to do, do anything.
Writing sucks. If you only wrote ...
Read more - Why I love running Gunnas Sunday, March 15th, 2015
Catherine,
I wanted to send you this email, with no expectation or want for a reply, just to tell you how grateful I am that one week ago I came to your Gunna’s Masterclass.
When I came to class I was on my second-last day of 5 weeks of annual leave. I didn’t have a lot planned ...
Read more - HIBISCUS published in Paper Sea Quarterly Issue #2 Sunday, March 1st, 2015
In a bouncinette. My feet splashing in a bowl of water. Golden light sneaking through the leaves warming patches of my legs. No top. Or perhaps a cotton singlet. Under a hibiscus tree. Festooned with flowers the color of musk sticks. Nappy. Bottle. I must have been about a year old. I smelt BBQ.
The lush and exotic ...
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So yesterday I got a really important piece of mail from my old school, one of the more expensive private girls’ schools in Australia. They need my help to support their ‘2015 Equality Campaign’. I know what you’re thinking, how can I help some of the most privileged girls in the country to become more ...
