The Long Campaign Against Racism (Bogged)
Three well-established authors doxxed and blackballed a younger, up-and-coming author.That's a bit shit. I mean, if we want to talk similes, then stomping on the fingers of the people climbing the...
View ArticleLOOK! I WROTE A THING!
Volume 12, Issue 3 of the Review of Australian Fiction includes 'By the Moon's Good Grace', an incredibly raw and hard story, the ending of which left me feeling heartfull and nourished, and 'The Fate...
View ArticleInterval
All the life hides in the rocks, but sometimes I like to swim out away from the liminal colonies into the heart of the bay, where what lies beneath that barrier between above and below is sparse and...
View Article#illridewithyou
The sunrise is too pretty. I haven't slept, but my adrenal gland is putting in the hard yards, so I still feel mildly lucid.They asked me if I was surprised by the response to the hashtag. As though...
View Article#illridewithyou Redux
For being the creator of the #illridewithyou hashtag I am copping abuse for being: white not white PoC not PoC Read that a couple of times. Now read it again. Once more. It doesn't get any less fucked...
View ArticleReclamation
I knew I had to let those last two posts stand for a while, without speaking over the top of them, so I did. Then I thought the usual recap/new years post would be a good way back in. Now it's...
View ArticleHey! A Good Thing!
Before the hashtag, there was 'Acception'.'Acception' was solicited by Gillian Polack, who was specifically hunting stories dealing with cultural baggage. Being equal parts immigrant and coloniser in a...
View ArticleI'll Walk With You
Over at Book View Cafe, Vonda N. McIntyre has put forth the idea "I'll Walk With You".I’m distressed to see that some folks who were planning to come to Sasquan are thinking of skipping Worldcon this...
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Wine - alcohol in general - has never been a taste I've acquired, and so I cannot compare the silence to wine, nor murmur of how I drink it like wine and sigh with satisfaction. Having basked in this...
View Article2015: Acknowledgements
[The larger part of me is still afraid to bring any of what I experienced upon another, let alone the people I love, so I cannot name you. It is still important to acknowledge you, however. If you find...
View ArticleSo You Want to Go Back to School
Your education is more than 7 years old, well out of date. You will have to complete recognised bridging courses to meet the entry requirements.Bridging course: $800You are unemployed and Centrelink...
View ArticleA Case Study on Well-Spoken, "Reasonable" Bigotry
Geoff shared this on FB. A couple of days previous I had shared the same article, commenting that Hamad's writing did a pretty good job of summing up my position of the subject. It's an article that...
View ArticleGreen Sticks I Have Known and Loved
There's no accounting for taste. Why we prefer one type of book but not another. Why we keep falling for the same type of person at the expense of so many other types. Why I'm drawn to these odd plants...
View ArticleThe Unchanging Ginkgo
We had a Ginkgo biloba plant when I was a child. It sat in a pot on the front verandah by the door, where it was mostly neglected. It always fascinated me. A book on dinosaurs had told me that this was...
View Articlewe learn
Cerpogia stapeliiformis is identified as being particularly hard to grow in cultivation. Being as it looks like a fat dead stick, I had to give it a shot. Unfortunately I doomed myself to failure the...
View ArticleLove by the Pus-Choked Sea
For most of my adult life I've used analogies to navigate the process of living. For example, I've always been a strange fish. The complete lack of representation of anyone I could relate to in the...
View ArticleThe Great Wall (of Deep, Deep Sighs)
Yeah, look. Just. Look. I went and saw it at the cinemas because I wanted to. Ancient Chinese fantasy and wuxia films are dear to my heart. The consumption of media which is problematic as fuck is...
View ArticleMovement Unseen
When using a light microscope, adjust the coarse focus before utilising the fine focus.A blur of peacock blue and glory red suddenly coalesces and becomes a map of tiny rooms and coloured walls. The...
View ArticlePieces of Wednesday
Waking up with the same headache that put you down is grossly unfair.I follow Sam around the house chanting "Shame. Shame." He remains unrepentant concerning the dog poo he left on the back...
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I've wanted to write about the marriage equality vote for some time, particularly how #illridewithyou resonates with the Yes campaign. But, I'm sitting here listening to the skirls of rising panic of...
View ArticlePlant Notes
Amophorphallus bulbifer had finished rotting out its leaves, so it was time to move the pot out of the fernery. One nice little corm of good health in the palm of the compound leaf. These corms drop to...
View ArticlePlant Notes
To mark the beginning of mid-semester break, I gave myself some long lazy playtime on campus. A bucket of water and secateurs and a ramble around the gardens. A snip here, a snip there. Propagation is...
View ArticleMechanical Animals - Two Bees Dancing
Preorder MECHANICAL ANIMALS here and here.Two Bees Dancing is the first (and only) story I've written since "all that stuff happened". There's a reprint of Acception coming soon, but reprints require...
View ArticleChristchurch, White Supremacy & Us
After the Sydney gunman had walked into the Lindt Cafe, after I'd made my tweet, after the tweet had gone viral and the siege ended, I was interviewed at 7am on Radio National Breakfast by Ellen...
View ArticleArticle 24
Sometimes, I just have to whinge. Only the poor souls who have this blog on a feed reader will notice this post.We moved on Saturday. Nothing bad happened, except it was much longer and stressful than...
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