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Grace Beattie is a UQ student in her final year of a Bachelor of Law/Arts majoring in Psychology with a minor in Political Science. She is the president of the UQ Justice and Law Society. Next year she plans to commence her Masters of Environmental Law. So, what makes her an environmental hero today? Grace – alongside […]
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My friend bought something new today. She is excited to show me. Covered in fur, peering at me with big, bright eyes, a strange doll sits in her hands. “A Labubu!” she tells me. I don’t really know what to say. What the fuck is a Labubu? Originally introduced to the world in 2015, Labubu […]
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You’re an addict, and so am I. Realising that finally allowed me to address my growing dependence on technology and the internet in everyday life, reclaiming my attention span and autonomy. A dreary Monday afternoon, sitting in the Biological Science Library, I had an iced coffee at the ready, noise-cancelling headphones blocking out the surrounding […]
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I am a Bong girl. I am loud, bold, sensual, angry. I don’t tolerate injustice. I don’t bow down; I am not timid. I fight for all the right things. I have the spirit of a kshatriya, always at war, fighting for the right thing. There’s too much fire in our souls. We seek softness, warmth, […]
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Written by Alita Khansa Wirahman It started, with food, as it so often does in Indonesia, A girl orders food from a rideshare app. She waits for the delivery man to arrive. He never does. At the same moment, Jakarta’s streets are thick with anger. Thousands march, banners raised high, voices hoarse from chanting. Their […]
Continue ReadingTime. It truly is crazy. Time passes in the blink of an eye as families gather, children play, communities indulge in frivolous activities and delicious food. Yet some – for almost two years – have been deprived of those very special moments. Deprived of basic human rights. Time, it truly is crazy. Days turned into […]
Continue Reading25th of March, 2025. It was a Tuesday morning, I was preparing to log onto my zoom lecture, I heard a ding. I checked my phone to see a text message. “Uncle Ismail was at Nasser hospital when they bombed it” It was from my mother. My heart stopped. I couldn’t breathe. I started sobbing. […]
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In two months, the genocide in Gaza will mark its two-year anniversary. Two years of schools, hospitals, shelters and breadlines being bombed. Two years of starvation and displacement. Two years of Gaza being razed. Israel has shown no signs of stopping, with Netanyahu intending to totally occupy the Gaza Strip. Thanks to the complicity of […]
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He came and left a rot inside her womb. She lay there naked curled around her blight that rotted till her famine would consume the ridges dug inside her skin that night. He told her he would build them both a home: A kitchen with a cross above the door. Then turned the bedroom to […]
Continue Reading‘ Burned leaf on the rubble cries EVACU language disintegrating Warnings from the Sky’ is a Senryu written in response to an image I saw of the remnants of an evacuation leaflet dropped by Isreal in Gaza. There was nowhere to evacuate to. The leaflet was torn by bombs from the very people that sent […]
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