Columns
The Curtain Calls For You to Think
If I would say one thing about Come From Away, other than that it is worth every minute and dollar, it would be that it highlights that amidst suffocating hate, it is possible to find that lemon-drop of kindness in you.
23 April 2020
A Third Culture Kid’s Experience: Sex
Every sexual experience that I have had has boiled down to one governing emotion: guilt.
23 April 2020
Badass Women
Eleanor pauses in her tracks, sucking in a breath as she turns not to face the man, but the arched windows that line the passage.
Aquitaine stretches out before her, its beauty incomparable to filthy, cramped Paris.
Lonely Hearts of the Animal Kingdom
Bonjour, mon amour! I think perhaps you are the muse I’ve been searching for.
25 March 2020
The Cherryman: The Boy from Stormwater
The first child born to a god brought the moon back.
25 March 2020
The OTHER Theory of Evolution
In science class we only celebrated successes. But for every scientific superstar there’s a generation of equally intelligent scholars who got it wrong.
23 March 2020
Barbara Strozzi
Welcome to Canon in She, a column all about women composers, their fascinating lives and brilliant music.
3 March 2020
Menstrual Cups: Yay or Nay
Menstrual cups, the lesser-known alternative to managing periods have recently come to the spotlight as climate crisis is becoming more evident, and public participation to the matter is resulting in positive and effective turns (ngl, we woke).
3 March 2020
Regulating Language
One of the first problems that you must solve when setting up an education system—though it’s probably not something that an Australian would ever think about—is what language it will use. Ideally, it should be one spoken widely by students, which is why English is a good fit for classrooms in Australia, Japanese is a good fit for classrooms in Japan, and so on.
5 March 2019
Kiss and Tell
I was sitting in bed working (read: procrastinating) on an upcoming essay when the infamous “heyy” text lit up my screen. Here we go again, I thought to myself.
5 March 2019