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Why the fight against racism and ableism must be shared

I used to think I had the privilege of being at arm’s length from the politics of disability. I strongly supported anti-racist politics, but being “able-bodied” and without caring ...

Judy Kuo

The Grey Area – Nuances of sex, Consent and Power

Linda Martín Alcoff, 2018. Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation. Cambridge, Polity Press. Available Online: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Rape+a...

Anna Hush

Bringing Up Tomorrow

Julianne Schultz and Brendan Gleeson (eds), 2016. Griffith Review 52: Imagining the Future , Text Publishing, Melbourne. Available online: https://griffithreview.com/editions/imag...

Mia Sandgren

How to Live: 1. Learn to Die

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: reflections on the end of a civilization . By Roy Scranton. Published 2015 by City Lights Books, 142 pages. In Learning to Die in the Anthropo...

Emma Cupitt

Mining Stories: Slow Violence, Resource Extraction and Writer-Activism in Australia

The red leaf on the left is covered with iron ore dust, the leaf on the right has been cleaned. When plants are covered with dust they can no longer photosythesise, meaning they sl...

Mia Sandgren

Grassroots Activism and Democracy: Judith Butler’s Notes on a Sensate Democracy

“To demand justice […] involves every activist in a philosophical problem” – Judith Butler [1] Judith Butler, the American philosopher and gender theorist, has long intimated a dem...

Louis Kleé

How Did We Ever Get Stuck in the Pinstriped Prison?

The Pinstriped Prison: How Overachievers Get Trapped in Corporate Jobs They Hate . By Lisa Pryor. Published 2008 by Picador Pan MacMillan Australia Pty Limited, 1 Market Street Syd...

David Smyth

Silence and The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz introduced the Western world to ketman , or the practice of concealing ones true motives or beliefs to give the outward appearance of conforming to authority. A Pol...

Reid Hutchins

Disruptive Creativity

In a recently published book, Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity , the Sociologist Maurizzio Lazzarato considers the question of what genuine creati...

Maria Hynes