We exist through our bodies and in relation to other bodies – human, animal, ecological. This issue of Demos explores the ways in which the body moves through the world – how it la...

LK:  The School of Culture, History and Language review of 2013, was that a big one? Yes, it was a big explosion. LK: Were the professional staff involved? Well, they always said, ...

Between 1952 and 1963, British forces dropped nine nuclear weapons and nine thermonuclear weapons between Woomera and the Western Australian border, within contamination distance o...

The nation turns its face towards the wall and does not see the dying child. But she is here. She lies amongst the flowers that spread their seas of blue across suburban gardens. H...

Technology is making us robots. It feels like an absolute cop out to begin a piece by gesticulating about the age of technology – but hear me out. In a recent media consumption fre...

I. Introduction “Every person with disabilities has a right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity on an equal basis with others.” —  Article 17, Convention on the...

Dear soft rubber,            hard metal dress me: one part at a time interject with vani...

The following artworks, writing, poetry and music come from four asylum seekers...

What else have I dreamt of, waking in twisted sheets as the blue dawn walks the slope at the end of our beach? The hands have memory, the breath too. In the sky, a letter in cloud,...

The East Asia-Australia Flyway is a migratory shorebird highway that over 8 million birds use to travel...

One of the ways I experience dance is as a series of body images.‘instilled,’ a solo dance performance (2010) contains many elements that express how I image body, both mine and ot...

Goulburn Hospital The women of my family end up in hospital beds Surrounded by the people they spend their lives looking after It’s not meant to be ironic But it feels strange Our ...

Justine Poon is a PhD student at the Australian National University. Her thesis topic: “How a body becomes a boat” examines the ways in which law, political discourse, imagery, and...

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...

Walking the dog up the track through the gums and kangaroos, down through suburbs crawling into the morning. The dog (a dingo cross?) browses the roo poo, which people think gross ...

‘Bodies, is that all we are?’ This was the response from a colleague of mine when I was discussing a monograph I had recently published entitled  Cultural Responses to Occupation i...

Throughout history, humans have utilised their bodies to fight against different forms of oppression and shape their political and social landscape. From Ghandi to the Occupy Movem...

Well Then Introduce Myself to Me If you – happen to consider yourself female. And you are, alone at midnight (Tuesday morning) It can be good practice to strip down naked          ...