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The chemical question
It's just that time of the month. It’s only the baby blues. It’s the change, it’ll pass. It’s just your hormones. Most women have experienced a dismissal like this at some stage in their lives, whether for a genuine mental health issue or for something as minor as offering a differing opinion. But the trivialising of issues deemed ‘hormonal’, and the dismissal of associated mood disorders, can have fatal consequences.
The bee box
You made this; working with wood and mortar to build nesting sites for native bees – the leafcutter, the resin, the blue-banded. For some...
A woman alone
Dedicated to Susan-Gaye Anderson THERE’S NO POINT making it up. An eminent Australian historian, a woman, once said of an...
Le Méridien
8 a.m. poolside, two women rolling cigarettes like a production line. This hotel full of Russians with grapefruit-hard stomachs and bar tabs the...
Snake of Light
Listen to Loki Liddle reading ‘Snake of light’. HE SOUND OF buzzing filled the dodgy motel room, bouncing off the dirty tiles and...
The light we cannot see
I am the way into the city of woe, I am the way into eternal pain, I am the way to...
Preparing for the inevitable: Five states of mind
Griffith Review · Joshua Lobb reading Preparing For The Inevitable from Griffith Review 72: States of Mind You have ten...
Coal and meter
The poet digs down a decade with her plastic pen, rests by the ancient seam, Earth’s little little black dress boudoir-veined. Poet and...
On surviving survivor’s guilt
MY MOTHER’S ASHES got scattered at the end of Australia’s Black Summer. She’d been dead for eighteen months. But...
keyhole
wearing today like it is your last. sip of sunlight. wearing today like an impatient scream. a stent that...
Embracing ugly feelings
THE FIRST TIME I was hospitalised, my mother visited me in the dank psychiatric ward bearing a three-tiered lacquer...
This Her Thing
I DRIVE PAST where Mum died and I feel the tractor beam of that place, the urge to pull...
