By Lenora Cole striking dart of fluorescence, you are caught by light only and then, just barely hooked wings lie in patient, cleptoparasitic waiting, needled to unguarded clay mothering is best left to someone else unaware of your opportunistic…
By Em Readman The complexities of cancel culture in the Australian music scene You all know what getting cancelled is. You’ve probably seen it on one of your social media feeds every so often. If you don’t, cancelling is basically a micro-apocalypse of someone’s previously positive rapport. A…
By Rianna Shoemaker It is 8:00pm. I have just arrived home from an 8+ hour day at the law firm where I work, and my housemate is sprawled comfortably across our sofa like a content cat. What’s on the box?…
By Alana Riley If you haven’t been at QUT for long, you might be surprised to hear that this semester’s QUT Guild Pride Fest was the first event of its kind on campus. (It’s 2019, so it’s about time.) The week-long celebration hosted…
By Jaime Colley My fingers rest on my hip bones. They slide along the bone, pinch into the fat on my hips, trace the stretch marks that reach down to my legs; they simply feel my skin. My forefinger slides up…
By Olivia Wooldridge “I swear, sometimes you make me wonder what I did to deserve a child like you,” Maya fumed, standing to the side as her daughter strode through the door, shoulders stiff and chin thrust in the air. “I’m only twenty…
My grandmother was a truly remarkable woman. She raised three children almost single-handedly with child like enthusiasm and unfailing love. Divorced after thirty-five years of marriage, she flourished in her new found freedom. At fifty, she returned to university and…
By Jennifer Haig Sometimes I imagine I am made up of shards of glass. Beautiful, but only when artificially coloured and moulded. Useful, but only when I am held strong by lead casings. All my outlines given definition and imbued…
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By Saskia Mathers QUT is home to a number of clubs and societies for women in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). STEM [in the western world] has historically been filled with, you guessed it, white cis males – yet for a sector tasked with designing, developing…
