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  • Whaledreamers

    cross-posted at overland I had the misfortune of seeing Whaledreamers on Friday, part of the Sydney Travelling Film Festival that made its way through Alice Springs. We are a hardened audience for the sort of vacuous worship that filmmaker Kim Kindersley profuses for the Mirning people. In the whitefellas-talking-about-blackfellas stakes, we are territorial and deeply…

  • on benevolence

    it has been good to swim in the ocean almost daily since i’ve been in sydney but it can leave your body with a sensation of being buffeted around for hours afterwards, and that seems to be my default state at the moment: at the mercy of some greater system. but we all are, all…

  • babies

    ohhhhhh back in sydney and surviving on caffeine and the beach. coming down from travel. visiting friends and family. people keep having babies – i am not against this. but i am tired and eager for a room of my own in which to write. this back porch that catches the edge of the rain…