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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Jenny Hedley

Jenny Hedley is a neurodivergent writer, PhD student and Writeability mentor whose work appears in Archer, Cordite, Crawlspace, Diagram, Mascara, Overland, Rabbit, TEXT, The Suburban Review, Verity La, Westerly, and the anthologies Admissions: Voices in Mental Health and Verge. She lives on unceded Boon Wurrung land with her son. Website: jennyhedley.github.io/

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16 August 202322 August 2023 · Reviews

A technology to remember and forget: André Dao’s Anam

Jenny Hedley

Anam presents questions around responsibility, inheritance and belonging as Dao searches for a home that feels like home, with partner and daughter at his side, and is instead confronted by a sense of placelessness, of time outside of time, and collected histories which refuse to yield redemptive truths.

10 October 202211 October 2022 · Main Posts

The art of the self: Eloise Grills’ big beautiful female theory

Jenny Hedley

If I could send one book back in space–time to reach that bulimic self who covered her bedroom walls with images of Kate Moss circa 1993 and tell that girl, maybe you don’t want to be Kate Moss, you just want to smoosh against her like your Barbies, Eloise Grills’ big beautiful female theory would […]