Throughout history, certain illnesses have been associated with moral or character flaws. In critiquing the tendency to blame individuals for their illnesses, we can challenge the ableist perspective that implies that individuals are responsible for their conditions.
Browsing: Perspective
We differ from typical siblings, having experienced the same seasons and milestones together, but as time has gone on, we feel less and less like twins.
Win or loss, the Australia that has emerged during the 2023 FIFA World Cup is unrecognisable to the one before — and that is a victory worth celebrating.
After a while of hearing them speak, I said I’d speak to my friends before joining the courses they recommended. Their brow furrowed, telling me to be careful.
Our worm is simply a convenient stand in for all the other things that can and will go wrong throughout the course of our lives.
People on the asexual spectrum come to an impasse when on the apps — you either label yourself as asexual and no one swipes right on you, or you don’t and force yourself to enjoy make-out sessions and lingering touches as you internally melt.
It’s a paradox, thinking that because I’m aware porn isn’t realistic, my experience of it isn’t real either.
I should not have been explaining non-binary identity to my senior school director at the age of 17, just as my peers should not have spent their lives dodging homophobic jokes just for the chance to be included in their “normal” peer groups.
Some part of me is glad that this album hadn’t been released the second time I drove across the Nullarbor, because I would have rinsed it, therefore spoiling it for myself. Instead I listened to the Spinner’s song ‘I’m Coming Home’ about 17 times a day and spoiled that instead.
As an avid writer, I lug my journal everywhere — even to the local grocer barely two blocks away.