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Dear baby queer…

Dear baby queer…

By WSU student Dear baby queer, now that you’ve finally made the right decision to be queer or trans or just other than “normal”, it is my pleasure to welcome you to my lovely world of rainbows. Attached you’ll find your magical unicorn and glitter, enjoy! Now down to...

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poem: Transgress

poem: Transgress

Transgress by Nikolai Lysewycz: I’d like to go outside.   It’s dark out. Luminescent leaves glisten, trembling in the wind. A wild silhouette in the garden is bordered by yellow light; ’s’curious, the contrast.   I’d like to go outside.   I tried once,...

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Tracks

Tracks

Short story by Christopher Kelly: The Richmond via Parramatta express was 37 seconds late on its schedule, as usual. And confined within the insidiously spacious tube were people, decidedly unfazed by the idea that this Monday morning screams De Ja Vu. Some slumped...

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Five Lessons from Cambodia

Five Lessons from Cambodia

By Jenyfer Joy: On the 28th of June this year, I packed my bags and flew off to Cambodia. I departed from a very cold, frosty Sydney at 4 am and by the time I arrived in Phnom Penh, it was a boiling 37 degrees. It’s been exactly two weeks since my arrival in Cambodia....

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Hip Hop’s New Post Code

Hip Hop’s New Post Code

By Bec Foley: The setting Autumn in the blue mountains is nature’s mardi gras. The stoic Japanese maple trees of summer become camp, attention-seeking centre-pieces clad outrageously in electric red. The trees look as if they’re on fire. Little wonder this...

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Master Wolf releases new music

Master Wolf releases new music

By Curtis Mayfield M-H: Hip-hop outfit Master Wolf launched the new single ‘Never Question The Dopeness’ on May 9 at Redfern’s Hustle & Flow Bar. The lineup of this “group” varies, as it is the strange brainchild of rapper MC Skinz. It might be right to call...

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Some Kind of Paradise

Some Kind of Paradise

By Brendan Gapper: Paradise, my arse. Midnight at the emergency department and the clouds parted to reveal the full moon.  The nurse stubbed out her smoke and headed back inside.  She was supposed to leave hospital grounds to have a cigarette, but she thought “fuck...

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