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Half a life and a full work in Pyrmont: a photo series
Do you ever get that restless feeling as if you are suffering from the vertigo of time moving through you? Apologies for my mediocrity: Last September I spent most of my days at my day job trying not to fall asleep and my nights with another job trying not to lose my sanity. At some…
I want to understand my mother
“Cold Enough For Snow” by Jessica Au Review I was supposed to be out tonight to watch another film at Sydney Film Fest but my bleeding uterus has chained me to my bed. Having no energy to flip through streaming sites or do anything, I have decided to write an incoherent review of this book…
Choices for women or lack thereof
A short review of Breast and Eggs by Kieko Kawakami “Does a body’s ability to become pregnant and nurse a child – that is, the possession of breasts and eggs – determine the fate of that body?” This is a question I think we, women have asked ourselves at least once in our lives and…
Motherhood and Madness: A short review of “Nightbitch” by Rachel Yoder
“How many generations of women had delayed their greatness only to have time extinguish it completely? How many women had run out of time while the men didn’t know what to do with theirs? And what a mean trick to call such things holy or selfless. How evil to praise women for giving up each…
The romance of feeling lost: A short review of “Whereabouts” by Jhumpa Lahiri
My first read of 2022 is the book that felt like it was written specifically for me by one of my literary heroes, Jhumpa Lahiri. “Whereabouts” is her first novel written in Italian and translated in English by herself. I spent the first round of lockdown reading all of Lahiri’s works and interviews. I am…
TAKE CARE: the power of anti-colonial feminist poetry
How do you write a review for literature that feels very personal? Ten years ago, I picked up a poetry book that was sold for ten pesos in Booksale. During that time my only exposure to poetry was the discussion of poems by dead white men in my English classes. When I read that poetry…
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