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The Curse of the Man Who Could See the Little Fish at the Bottom of the Ocean (Simon Leys)

For Hanfang Since the Beijing massacres, the question has already been put bluntly to me several times: “Why were most of our pundits so constantly wrong on the subject of …

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Pierre RyckmansSimon Leys

The Skin I’m In (Iona Italia)

All my life, I have been accused of having the wrong skin colour. My body’s wrapper—loosening and crinkling slightly around the eyes and mouth now, like the bow-tie-shaped foil around …

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Iona Italia

The World’s Longest Daisy Chain (Jenny Lindsay)

The first time I was complicit in inflicting public humiliation on someone has left a strong enough impression on me to be writing about it thirty-five years later. For various …

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Jenny Lindsay

Back on ‘Zac (Nina Paley)

Why I am returning to my regular dose of Prozac after 2 years of tapering off A few days ago, at a candy store in another town, I asked if …

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Nina Paley

Reading and Writing in Exile (Mammad Aidani)

A short philosophical-poetical text I gaze at the mirror, and I say to myself: You were born, There is no return to the time before that, so keep living. Exile …

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Mammad Aidani

Eggs of Freedom (Nina Sanadze)

If you’re not a runner, get out of bed the moment you open your eyes. Throw on your ripped jeans and Birks, your painting shirt—nothing too sporty. Maybe even your …

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Nina Sanadze

Lesbians: the canaries in the mine (Susan Hawthorne)

I would suggest that when lesbians become victims of attack, they are a signal. They are the canaries in the mine. And if the perpetrators get away with it, then …

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Susan Hawthorne

Trust: A Fractured Fable (Jeanne Ryckmans)

MARCH 2020, SYDNEY A magistrate finalised an uncontested Apprehended Violence Order for two years against the Irish Professor under the Crimes Act (Domestic and Personal Violence) three weeks after he …

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Jeanne RyckmansTrust: A Fractured Fable

When Feminism Becomes a Tool for Assimilation (Nathalie Martinek)

You’re at a women’s empowerment event. Everyone on stage speaks fluently and eloquently. The language is crisp, the tone measured, and the slogans aligned. It’s a feminism that photographs well …

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Nathalie Martinek

Griftivism (Michele Seminara)

My first exposure to what I now call “griftivism,” a hybrid of grifting and Critical Social Justice activism, occurred in the arts. It was 2020 when—in my role as managing …

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Michele Seminara
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