Seeing through a fog of privilege Lately, perhaps as pandemic anxiety eases in some places, rhetoric rights have been compromised or denied seems to be on the rise again. With the urgency of mortal risk being either normalised or minimised, the agitation about other concerns is given space. Most often,… Read More »Rewriting rights
I didn’t say Goodbye I couldn’t sleep deeply last night and managed a couple of brief naps at most. My body was simply ‘alert’ all through the night. I recognised it was my body knowing something my conscious mind did not. Confident I would figure it out in the morning,… Read More »When they left
Pandemic Conspiracy Theories On the conspiracy theories about the novel coronavirus that leads to the COVID-19 infection: Can we stop propagating racist rhetoric and pretending it’s in any way innocent? People of *Asian* descent or even ‘suspected’ of looking that way are being assaulted in countries all over the world.… Read More »It’s just a story…
Sorry Day, 2020 Today (26 May, 2020) marks three years since the Uluru Statement was gifted to all Australians by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement towards Voice, Treaty and Truth “The words remind us that colonisation did… Read More »Book Review: Finding the Heart of the Nation
by Alice Walker This was a classic that I had long been eager to read. I struggle to read dialectical texts so I chose the audiobook and I greatly enjoyed the narration by Alice Walker. The voice acting didn’t distract me either as a positive nor negative feature. The film… Read More »Book Review: The Color Purple
ReflexIVE Thinking I wrote a reflection on ‘self-care’ in November 2019, early into my time being largely confined to bed as I recovered from major cancer surgery. I understood, at that time, that I was likely to face a longer recovery journey than most given my complicating pre-existing conditions. It… Read More »Self-care
by Mandy Beaumont Author Mandy Beaumont curates her words as carefully as she does the stories and the content of this collection. The stories are as brutal as they are beautiful and there is a distinct discomfort in the elegance of some of these experiences, so eloquently placed there for… Read More »Book Review: Wild Fearless Chests
What am I To you or to me or to him or to her or to them Am I loved or lovable Do I love well enough Do I hold well enough Do I challenge enough Without being challenging Us vs them or … Read More »#CBD
The Antonym of Gratitude is Oblivion There are aspects of asking and receiving that I grapple with to the point where it feels worse than the myriad shifting physical pains I live with daily. In many ways, I would rather go it alone and struggle harder keeping my challenges invisible,… Read More »The quality of being thankful
Isolation doesn’t have to be lonely Edited 18 March 2020 to add more resources/tips Edited 18 April 2020 in response to changing isolation conditions and to incorporate more resources/tips As the COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO), on 11 March 2020, begins to drive more people into… Read More »Cave time