I got you, boo[ks]

We've alllllllll been there. Staring confusedly at the bookshelves at your local bookstore (mine's QBD, represent), and you think to yourself...what in the actual fuck should I read? What is even good? What will I like? How can I bloody tell from only the blurb and the cover???????????????????????????????? Fear not, my precious book monsters! As this is something that [...]

#REVIEW of THE HATE YOU GIVE by Angie Thomas

5/5. Read it. Now. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas needs to be a compulsory novel read in secondary schools across the world. It is a modern classic, speaking from a perspective not quite heard in the book community; and that is from the perspective of people of colour. Even though there is a [...]

the impermanence of your permanence.

itโ€™s easier to say that youโ€™re dead, instead of just, you left and never looked back. how ironic that the prospect of your death would be easier to handle than watching you walk away so casually, (a voluntary abandonment). it's easier to say that you're dead rather than remember how my mother's tears created permanent [...]

catastrophicย 

the destruction commenced unwarranted catastrophic. I raised my hands a blessing tasting the fire the ash. donโ€™t be fooled by the burns of the leftover destruction. having to rise from those ashes I discovered re-discovered Myself. My strength. My intelligence. A glorious phoenix with wings of fire and ash. -ย flying, soaring. a winged beast of [...]

Say Yes, because if you don’t. Well, that’s just bloody un-Australian.ย 

Don't be a fucking dickhead. That's usually my go-to response when I hear people (usually white, middle-aged Australians) proselytise about the 'horrors' that same-sex marriage will bring to the 'righteousness' of Australian culture. (Seriously, what righteousness? We have Pauline Hanson sitting in our Parliament. Righteousness has left the building and is running away to Mexico). [...]