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The primary subtractive colours of cyan, magenta, and yellow can be mixed to create all the colours of the rainbow. For our Queer Edition, I’m gifting you birdies proudly displaying these colours. Cyan – Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus) A recently-published study, ‘Personality predicts song complexity in superb fairy-wrens’, reveals that superb fairywrens’ beautiful songs hold […]
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“Butch is masculinity without men, femininity without compromise, and queerness without apology”. If you’ve been in lesbian circles lately, or especially if you’ve tried dating as a lesbian, you’ve probably heard people joke about the “masc shortage”. Well, if we’re facing a masc shortage, then we’re in the midst of an all-out Butch Crisis. But […]
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So here we are at last, our final dinner taken ‘neath dripping, blurry candlelight Across the table, through the sandstorm, you seek my eye Words are grains of sand, falling Words that have already met with silence For the sake of an easy farewell when before you rose from my arms and were gone … […]
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Dig. That’s the first thing they say to me, When I wake in that muddy field, Dig. They press a shovel to my chest, It’s rough wood, heavy and cruel in my new hands. Dig. They say once more, I do not know anything else but – Dig. The earth had birthed […]
Continue ReadingBetween F and M And warnings that Deviation May betray my safety in certain countries, I choose ‘other’, Unspecified, Undetermined. I *am* other. I am outside and both And nothing all at once and Fluctuating // deviating From expectations: From the ‘safe’ route. X is who I am. I am willing to forfeit my ease […]
Continue ReadingSemper Through The Ages was published in late April, 2025. The unformatted articles are also available online. Views: 36
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Between Two Worlds When I tell people that I moved from nuclear medicine to agriculture, their first reaction is usually confusion. “How does that even happen?”, they ask. To most, these fields seem worlds apart, one is rooted in high-tech diagnostics; the other in soil and seasons. But for me, the transition wasn’t about leaving […]
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Welcome to the Environmental Collective Column! At UQU Environment, we are proud to be a collective driven by students, for students. That’s why we’re so excited to be launching the Environmental Collective column as an ongoing contribution to the Semper newspaper. We hope to create a space to spotlight the incredible environmental work happening across […]
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“Pull a string and I’ll tell you that he runs because he loves me”. We are products of our society, picked and packaged to their liking, and discarded if we’re not. There have always been unspoken rules that we are expected to follow. Laugh too loud, and you’ll be judged. State your opinion, and you’ll be […]
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Little black cormorants (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris) can be found at UQ’s lakes, especially near the bus stop. Cormorants are excellent divers, helping them to snatch up their favourite snack: fish. Some groups of little black cormorants have even learned to hunt as a coordinated group, just like the Jurassic Park (but not real) velociraptors! As a […]
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