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Haikus about contemporary life

I don’t understand the doughnut craze in Melbourne I still prefer crepes ~~ expensive coffee secondhand clothing, penguin classics everywhere ~~ remember me as one who tried but not too hard just the...

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A Dream (A Mirror)

At some point I realised I was in a dream. I was following an old classmate up some wide stairs when it hit me. Like a punch to the stomach I suddenly remembered him in my sleep. I remembered why I...

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A Letter to Send Back in Time

My dear, sweet, younger me You never do grow up and you probably never will, stop dreaming about it. Go outside more. Sit in the sun and feel how calm it is. You’re going to want to remember what calm...

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Meet Again

   I had a memory  I told him the memory  He didn’t remember  So I began to forget 

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Artists with cats

I’m an anarchist, yes. Because I’m alive. Life is a provocation…. I’m against people in power and what that imposes upon them. Anglo-Saxons have to learn what anarchism is. For them, it’s violence. A...

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Literary Manifesto – Put That Book Down!

Sexism is everywhere and, more importantly, protests against sexism are everywhere. The spectre of equality is haunting pop culture. No longer will we put up with ridiculous age differences between...

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Models Should Be Unrecoginseable

It’s no coincidence that in French the word for model and mannequin is the same. Including models in our celebrity culture (which is already toxic enough, but now is not the time for that talk) isn’t...

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The Women of Mozart in the Jungle

First, I’ll tell you what I wanted: I wanted a cute, short show which I could watch to fill the time and wouldn’t suck up my time by making me feel a little too invested in the characters. I saw an ad...

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Why do the Oscars matter?

What do the Oscars really mean to us?   The recent announcement of the Oscar nominations has effectively led to an eruption of backlash, sassy tweets and the idea of boycotting the ceremony. This year,...

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Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq: the old and the new make a point together

The wall between high-brow and low-brow culture is beginning to crumble. These days we are just as interested in what pop-culture has to say as well as the academics – they both matter and expose...

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