The strange power of hair
The strange power of hair or a memoir in ten hairstyles. Up until the age of 14, I had long hair, mostly past shoulder length. I didn’t think about my hair really, but after my first year of high school – torturous due to being made aware of the evils of my otherness – I…
On belonging (part 1)
What happens when you realise that your sense of belonging is conditional on you not being yourself. After ABBA’s ground-breaking 1976 album Arrival was launched in Australia, some friends and I made a habit of spending our lunchtimes huddled around the group listening station in the library. The multi-headphone design allowed us to share a…
The Closet
On closets, revolving doors and the exhausting and never-ending requirement to constantly have to explain yourself, help others to feel less threatened and to shift the conversations to what we share, as opposed to how we are different. She comes out (simple present) She is coming out (present continuous) She has come out (present perfect)…
common trees 