World Suicide Prevention Day 2020 in a COVID Reality
COVID-19 isn’t the only invisible illness that’s affecting the world. Mental health issues are on the…
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Can I Speak to the Karen in Charge?
It’s tough to be a good-natured and unironically-named Karen in 2020. Much like “Becky, Chad, and…
The Silver Lining of a Mushroom Cloud
This coming Thursday and Saturday will mark 75 years since the United States detonated two atomic…
Woodes’s Crystal Ball – Full Immersion
Now we all love music! But what’s really cool is when people are able to combine…
Anti-Racism, Steps Beyond Convenience
Human rights activist Desmond Tutu once said “if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you…
Freedom Rings, but it’s an Unanswered Call
Over the weekend, the United States marked its independence day amid the ongoing unrest around police…
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Microaggressions
The current cultural climate is focused on racism. Be it systemic and structural, or institutionalised and…
Policing the Police: Virtue Signalling
Look anywhere online in the past two weeks, and it’s impossible to avoid conversations on systemic…
Music as Catharsis and Healing
In stressful times, we have a tendency to reach for music to soothe ourselves. We’ve seen…
Ergonomics and Productivity
In an unprecedented period of lockdown like the one we’re in, it can be hard to…
Shaking up Autopilot: Defamiliarisation
What makes art art? Why are poems art, but phone-books aren’t? One important element in writing…
The Identity Politics of Transnationalism
Australia’s higher-education sector is facing billion-dollar losses as international students remain locked out, with border closures…