I was proud to be a part of the M/other event at the Wheeler Centre. The whole weekend was a dream program with so many amazing people discussing the politics of motherhood and parenting. I cannot recommend enough that you watch the sessions once they are up online on the…
Read MoreBook & tea pairing: Royal Keemun Mao Feng with Michael Winkler’s Grimmish Today’s pairing is a bold, robust black tea to fortify you at any time of day. With smoky, tobacco notes this blend evokes the early 1900s boxing halls and back room bars of Grimmish, a story about a…
Read MoreThe only thing better than getting books in the mail is getting surprise books in the mail. Our Bookmail service puts all my years working in bookstores, libraries, literary events, writing organisations and obsessively reading to work finding the ideal books to add to your TBR or that of a…
Read MoreI write about being a disabled person, artist and parent. It’s rare, though, that I get to work as a disabled producer putting together an event about disability and for the disabiity arts community. In producing Meeting Place I have finally been able to do this. Meeting Place is Australia’s…
Read MoreI’m glad to have another opportunity to talk about the unique situation disabled people face as we tackle climate change. I’ll be speaking at this event as part of the Greater Dandenong Sustainability Festival and Libraries After Dark at Springvale Library. Climate change is happening now, and it affects everyone,…
Read MoreI’ve been a lover of books since I could listen to them on my Fisher Price tape deck as a child. I’ve also been lucky enough to work with books, literature and writing in Australia for a long time and I have such deep respect for what it takes to…
Read MoreTo celebrate the launch of We’ve Got This – the first major anthology of writing by parents with disabilities – a panel of the book’s contributors will discuss the complexities of parenting from this often overlooked perspective. In We’ve Got This, twenty-five parents who identify as Deaf, disabled or chronically…
Read MoreI’m incredibly proud to be included in this anthology published today by Black Inc. which gathers together stories from disabled parents from Australia. My chapter reflects on how my feminism and disability politics have informed my parenting and vice versa. Spoiler alert: they’re impossible to extricate from each other! Whether…
Read MoreI’ve got an article up on ABC Everyday about my experience of the pandemic as a disabled parent. I’d love for you to pop over to the site and read the whole article. Here’s an excerpt for you. The supports I and my family have built into our lives to…
Read MoreFrom fine amnesties, to boosting the prominence of digital offerings, to simply putting books in the post, libraries have drastically changed the way they operate to accommodate the massive social changes imposed by governments during the pandemic, often with heartwarming results. Today The Guardian published When Covid closed the library:…
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