This article was written on hold to Centrelink by a person with mental health issues, not a mental health professional. Take it with a grain of salt. Before the process begins First, breathe. Deep breaths into your tummy, you know, the ones your therapist taught you to do when you feel anxiety coming on. Remind […]
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Dark Mofo is the coolest festival in Australia. Maybe even the world. Yes, this is a huge call, but where else in the world can you kick a footy then watch a drag show in a major church, stand around open fire pits with a hot toddy, and join 600 others in a nude, mad […]
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By Molly Frankham. This book will stay with you a long time after you’ve read it. Because we are bad is Lily Bailey’s first book, and what a way to burst into the literary world. Mental illness is so heavily stigmatised in our society, we find it difficult to talk about, even in the abstract. […]
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By Molly Frankham. Well, this movie was pretty darn freaky. Domestic violence in the Western cannon always seems to be framed as between a low SES couple, in their midlife, and that the ‘battered woman’ trope is regularly rolled out. Berlin Syndrome presents a different angle to what we are usually offered, one that highlights a problematic […]
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Happy Monday Semperites! Here we are again, in Week 11. Golly gosh, where has the semester gone? Here are the haps’ in the music world on Monday the 15th of May. Mark Pritchard has digitally released some news grooves, called Under The Sun, Expanded Vol. 1. This is the exciting new version of Under the Sun. Released on […]
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