DARK SECRETS: 3 | Vintage Vibes

Friday essay: grey-haired and radiant – reimagining ageing for women

Ageist thought patterns and reactions are so embedded in Australian culture that even educated people, people who otherwise insist on political correctness, will open their mouths and deliver a hurtful, hateful judgement.

The Conversation · May 26, 2022

Class, queerness and illness in the ‘post-crisis’ era: rewriting the narrative of HIV

I often read a book’s acknowledgments to see who an author thanks for supporting the creation of their work and how they go about thanking them.

The Conversation · May 16, 2022

In her gracious acceptance of death, Deborah James has given us lessons in how to live

None of us truly knows how we will behave when the inevitable gets ever closer. Facing it squarely might allow us to savour those final moments

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2022

LGBT+ history: the story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X

Although camp is difficult to define, it probably doesn’t need much description.

The Conversation · Feb 7, 2022