I had the weirdest and most amazing experience this week. I happened to contact Mary Lambert‘s publicist about a fortnight ago, after noticing that Mary had announced her North American tour for her new EP Bold. I asked if I could interview Mary about her EP, her upcoming tour, and her activism. I have noticed her […]
I’m thrilled to be one of the writers involved in Return Flight: MEL>EDI, a cross-continental creative exchange between twenty artists and writers in Melbourne and Edinburgh. I’m amongst writers like Tony Birch and Madison Griffiths, which is an honour in itself. You can buy the book here.
I’ve been a fan of Kill Your Darlings for many years, and I am so excited to have had a piece published in their January issue. My piece is about my time at a writing workshop with Cheryl Strayed in the French alps, which I thought would be the ideal place to escape the distractions of everyday life. The
Today, I am thinking about my beautiful friend, Jenny Green, who died in November 2015. I wrote about the supermoon, an odd, rare phenomenon that helped me observe Jenny’s death and work towards accepting it. This piece was originally published by Urban Walkabout, which unfortunately went into voluntary administration so the piece is no longer available online.
I wrote about the impact that 90s pop culture had on my developing sexual and gender identity. I discuss my crushes on Taylor Hanson, Daniel Johns and Leonardo DiCaprio, and a few surprises. You can read my essay in Junkee.
Earlier this week, The Vocal (Fairfax) published my tongue-in-cheek letter to Senator Eric Abetz, which I wrote in response to his comments that we should celebrate people who come out as heterosexual. Of course, I completely agree with the Senator, but I just had a few questions for him before we start planning the hetero pride
This week, I wrote an article for Daily Life about my first Pap smear, which unfortunately was also my first experience of coming out to a doctor. The doctor was religious, and used his role to ‘educate’ me about the unhappiness and shame associated with being homosexual. Since writing this piece, I have been saddened
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I wrote a piece about being a shy extrovert for The Vocal, a Fairfax publication that is action-oriented and radically positive. The editor is the superb and talented Sheree Joseph. Since then, I have received messages and had fascinating conversations with people who identify as shy extroverts, social media introverts, awkward extroverts, confident introverts, etc. I also came across this wonderful
I just wrote this article for The Vocal in which I share my very personal wedding story as a political response to Turnbull’s proposed plebiscite in February 2017.
I recently wrote an article for Daily Life about the inaugural Pride Game between St Kilda and the Sydney Swans. The article is about my experiences with sport when I was growing up as a closeted queer person, as well as the AFL’s links to homophobia, racism and misogyny. I really enjoyed the Pride Game, and
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