Tervo: An Artist of Great Contra-Dick-Tions
For someone who calls himself “Your Nan’s Favourite Artist”, Matt sure does draw a lot of dicks.
Infantilised, Dismissed & Discounted
After years of continued, grassroots activism, the conversation around unpaid placements and the poverty elicited by them, is finally winning an audience with the federal government.
HOUSE OF LEAVES or, Postmodern Science, the Hypercube and Parallel Dimensions, and the Hypertext
House of Leaves is a weird book. It’s ergodic, postmodern, epistolary, and thirty other adjectives only used by wankers and nerds (me). It’s the kind of book that has academic papers written about it, and those papers have sections titled, “Postmodern Science, the Hypercube and Parallel Dimensions, and the Hypertext”. Seriously, that’s an actual chapter in this Buffalo State College paper.
Cousin’s Day
We took our positions. We readied our Nerf guns. The older boys had picked out the bigger ones, the ones that held fifteen to fifty foam bullets, with more bulging their pockets. I took one of the smaller ones that held eight, but I liked how powerful my small Nerf gun was.
The Essay That Will Fix Me
When I once again find myself contending with a confusing mess of emotions, I find myself needing to write these thoughts down.
A weight on our shoulders
Likened in my mind to that of a happy place, the gym has served as an escape from the stresses (though mere) of everyday life. University deadlines and missteps at work fail to infiltrate my thoughts while I’m there, my mind instead focusing on the next rep or set.
The Notification Paradox: To check or not to check…
With your phone flipped face down on the table, you can’t know unless you pick it up and check. At that moment, for a lot of people today, their glass portal becomes a worry machine. A flurry of thoughts quickly fills your mind, as it fights between checking or leaving it alone.
Australian LGBTIQAP+ community uncertain of future freedom
Events such as “Drag Queen Story Hour” have particularly come under scrutiny, as opposers protest the alleged unsuitable nature of such entertainment in front of children.
The pressure cooker of law school: Is it all that it’s shaped up to be?
Law school is no light journey, it requires hours of reading and constant revision of concepts - leaving many chained to their desk for hours on end.
7 Things to Bring to a Country Music Gig
If you are considering attending one of Australia's many country music festivals, such as CMC rocks, Tamworth, or Groundwater Country Music Festival there are a few things you should consider chucking in your bag, as told by die-hard country festival-goers.
