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253 Summer 2023/4

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Liam Blackford

Liam Blackford is a West Australian writer and poet living and working on Whadjuk Noongar country. On top of reviews and commentary on poetry publications, music releases and art exhibitions in Perth and Hong Kong, his non-fiction writing focuses on the artistic, literary and philosophical aspects of memes, political events and other cultural phenomena.

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12 September 2024 · Reviews

The jock and the farmboy, but not the sissy: sexual archetypes in Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys

Liam Blackford

Masculinity is an important and controversial topic in gay discourse, and Invisible Boys should be celebrated as an excellent document of the phenomenon as lived in regional Australia. Yet I lamented the absence of an effeminate gay character in Sheppard’s macho universe. A character for whom painted nails might not have just been “a punk thing.