The Hate Race by Maxine Beneba Clarke – Book Review
If you’ve ever wondered whether Australia actually is a deeply racist nation, then this powerful memoir is for you. It leaves no doubt that answer is yes, all the time, and from almost everyone. From the nasty little girl at Clarke’s kindergarten who wouldn’t play with the brown girl, to the primary school children who…
Book Review: Hunger by Roxane Gay
Hunger is so raw, poignant and compelling that it hurts to read it. At the most superficial level Hunger is a memoir about Roxane Gay’s body – specifically her very tall (6’3), very large (200 kgs +) body. Gay details her daily indignities and humiliations as a woman of size moving through a world designed…
Book Review: The Daintree Blockade by Bill Wilkie
What does success look like to an environmental activist? Sometimes success is obvious, like the protests against the Tasmanian Franklin Dam project. The protesters there were directly responsible for preventing the dam from being built and so protected a unique wilderness area. But sometimes success is less obvious. A battle is lost but, in the…
Book Review: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
A guest post today, from my gorgeous eleven year old daughter Charlie, a competent but reluctant reader who is also “the most faboulousisitst in the world.”* When the book arrived in the post I thought that it was just my mum hassling me to read more. But that night when I opened the book to…