Essays

Driving was something that was for other people, a way of interfacing easily with the world that I would always lack. 

It’s in my nature to be uncomfortable with the very idea of nature, the distinctions the term creates between acceptable and unacceptable behaviours and desires, the value systems it imposes and disguises. For me, nature and gender are both trouble.

‘What does it mean to be related?’ A writerly conversation between Miriam Wei Wei Lo and Alvin Pang.

knowledge as a body is dead without imagination— Jordie Albiston In the wake of the loss of Australian poet Jordie…

What do people think they’re doing when they’re writing novels? I’ve never found an answer that feels completely satisfying.

In this iterative writing and walking project, we have been making space to ask questions of each other about caring for Country, to share conversations about climate change, and to remind ourselves of the love that keeps us present.

When it comes to access, everyone is becoming ~Radical~ these days. I’ve noticed

Adoptees’ curiosity around origins and the past is significant, then, not only because it may lead to unearthing information regarding their personal histories, but also because of the knowledge it generates about a larger, collective experience.

Irigaray’s postulation of non-hierarchical sexual difference does not abolish the dominant western model of kinship. It does, however, profoundly modify its structuration so that the exchange of women would no longer be possible.

… King Lear in quarantine, I found myself thinking, trying to ignore the fridge and keep an eye on the younger child building Lego structures and smashing them, trying to make notes on my phone for that article about reading in quarantine, reminding myself to finish another essay about libraries, trying to imagine how it would make sense now that all the libraries were closed.