blog

This is where I house the musings and random scribbles that I can't reasonably expect to get paid for & an archive of some of my published work. Enjoy!

On token ethnic friends in pop culture

This is a transcript of the talk I gave at the 2019 Sydney Writers Festival. I’d like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of...

Summer reading recommendations 2018

It’s been one of those years of reading where many books have flown by without me taking a moment to properly register how much of an...

I was disappointed when my memoir didn’t face any backlash from the public. Here’s why.

In the months leading up to my memoir being published, I was riddled with anxiety. No Country Woman is a collection of essays on race,...

To all the horses I've loved before

This is a transcript of a talk I gave at Melbourne Writers Festival 2018, as part of the Animal Church stream of programming. Flashback...

Three things I would change about feminism

I spoke at the International Women's Day Feminartsy Story-share last week, on three things I would change about feminism today. Here's a...

Things I will miss about Scotland

After nine glorious months, I'm down to my last five days living in Edinburgh, Scotland. As cliche as it is to say, it's been a...

Things I miss about Australia

In June 2017, I moved to Scotland with my partner and our cat, for an adventure. Eight months later, I am in Canberra briefly, before we...

Reading Round-Up - December 2017

I have recently become addicted to trashy television (Pretty Little Liars. Like, really trashy), and haven’t read as much as I like. But...

Reading round-up - November 2017

Now that I’m not working full-time, I have so much more energy for reading. I suppose it also helps that I have a total of five friends...

Hello from Auld Reekie!

Hello from auld reekie! Well, it’s been a while since I blogged about anything. But now that I am quite some distance from home, it seems...

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