Today, I’m celebrating a year of blogging! Technically, my blogging anniversary would have been sometime in June. However, this time one year ago was when I really started to get into this blog, and began to post regularly, rather than writing one thing and then nothing for months on end. So I’m celebrating today, because … Continue reading »
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50th Edition of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival
Welcome to the 50th Edition of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival! Fifty editions is quite a milestone, though with the unclear status of the last few months, I’m not really sure if it is the fiftieth edition after all. But that does not matter, because I have a wonderful collection of submissions for the month … Continue reading »
Blogging as Creating Safe Spaces
TW for mentions of misogynistic and rape-apologetic comments not published on this blog, just to be safe. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had quite a few very negative and misogynistic comments in response to my writing, and it’s gotten me a bit down. I’m very busy lately; end of semester assignments, (one … Continue reading »
Interview with a Feminist Author: Joanne Hornimann (Part Two)
For part one of the interview, click here. Do you think that there is such thing as women’s writing (as separate to “normal” writing/men’s writing)? My character Sophie ponders this in My Candlelight Novel, and I don’t think she comes to a firm conclusion. Virginia Woolf said that you shouldn’t write as a woman or … Continue reading »
Interview with a Feminist Author: Joanne Hornimann
(Please excuse my terrible unoriginal post title.) I’m extremely lucky to know Joanne Hornimann – possibly the author whose novels lie closest to my heart and my experience. I’d read some of her novels before, but my main love for her writing came around while I was spending my gap year in Germany and was … Continue reading »
Off the Radar
This is a short story I wrote for next week’s upcoming issue of wom*news, the UQ Women’s Collective’s Zine. The theme for the issue is “sex! through a feminist lens” and I chose to look at an asexual perspective (one of many). Obviously I’ve put some personal experiences into writing this, but I’ve also made … Continue reading »
