Resources, Support Services, Counselling, Helplines, Crisis Support, and More For people living with or experiencing domestic, family, relational, sexual violence or abuse. Some services and Resources also provide support for those who have escaped the situation or relationship. Many services also provide support to those who know or suspect someone… Read More »Domestic, family, relational, gender-based violence or abuse
Welcome to an aspect of Adele’s Floating World You have found my blog and website, in its infancy. Thank you for visiting it at this early and delicate stage. Please be patient as I continue to furnish it and I welcome you to visit again. I hope you will visit… Read More »Hello world!
Today, the current Commonwealth Government, and State and Territory Governments, announced a commitment to a joint strategy and launched the National Plan to to end violence against women and children. One question that can only be answered in time is whether inclusive and representative data and the stories and testimonies contributed by victim/survivors and others with lived experience of being affected by domestic and family violence will be centred as legislators, policymakers, and peak bodies develop budgets, programs, and reforms.
Towards the end of 2019, I realised my reading had become almost exclusively non-fiction. This was influenced by my work, studies, and human rights advocacy and project commitments. In valuing self care, curiosity, and loving the global and local writing communities, I am trying to keep a more expansive reading… Read More »Adele: A bookworm
Reflecting on what it means to be disadvantaged in the literary field I hope many writers, artists, and readers will watch or have watched award-winning memoirist, novelist, and editor Alice Pung’s address at the 2021 “State of the (Writing) Nation” on 16th November 2021.”The State of the (Writing) Nation is… Read More »Commodifying diversity
A guide to surviving and thriving with endometriosis Bridget Hustwaite It does what it says on the cover: How to Endo serves as an accessible guide to surviving and thriving with endometriosis. Perhaps what is most valuable about this book is how it provides localised insight to the Australian medical and complementary support systems.… Read More »Book Review: how to endo
Anthology Introduced by Liz Byrski Authors: Anne Aly, Nadine Browne, Nandi Chinna, Claire G. Coleman, Carrie Cox, Eva Cox, Sarah Drummond, Carly Findlay, Goldie Goldbloom, Rafeif Ismail, Margot Kingston, Jay Martin, Meg McKinley, Olivia Muscat, Mihaela Nicolescu, Renee Pittitt-Schipp, Fiona Stanley, Victoria Midwinter Pitt, Jane Underwood, Julienne van Loon This… Read More »Book Review: Women of a Certain Rage
Josephine Taylor I loved this book. I was engrossed and became increasingly anxious to discover the conclusion. Eye of a Rook provides a window into the twin chronicles of two women facing achingly similar challenges across a span of time that should have brought more change but had not. This debut novel… Read More »Book Review: Eye of a Rook
Jung Chang Ostensibly a biography researched and written by Jung Chang, it illuminates more than the life of “the Concubine Who Launched Modern China” but also how perceptions of her beyond China were influenced by orientalism. Edward Said (1978) conceived of the practice of orientalism as a way in which… Read More »Book Review: Empress Dowager Cixi
edited by Carly Findlay So excited to hear that this valuable book is speaking to people and it’s already hit its second print run within two weeks of release! In so-called Australia, and arguably in many countries beyond, there are particular dominant societal narratives framing disability. Even seven years after… Read More »Book review: Growing Up Disabled in Australia
If born on your terms A witch Many letters of the rainbow too many of you hate or mock as if respecting humanity is so burdensome … Read More »Wearing Labels