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You hide you sins in long sentences, and yet you beg me not explode. If you do not hide your lies, you may turn your back – I will, I promise thee, not explode. Tensions bleed through air and suffocate the innocent, Words not understood nor said by those who will suffer them, they plea – not […]
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A long feast of leaves and crawling in the garden. Hands big and curious scoop me up, Into a jar smudged with dirt. I hear fantasies of colourful wings and sunshine. Months of this, I’m so hungry for change. I don’t care if it will hurt. I wrap myself in silk. Dissolving, Reforming, Clawing my […]
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Shot off into space, the message coasts on rays emitted from the sun, radiating out deep into the cosmos. Ones and zeros, carefully contained in individual photons, rising and falling in the waves of black. The message dances through space, ducking and diving and swirling around. Jumping from place to place, shifting from wave to […]
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Early this April, when British alternative band Pulp released their first album single in 24 years, fans were relatively united in their enjoyment of the track. But controversy swiftly developed among certain sets of Instagram commenters upon the rather shocking discovery that the accompanying music video, “directed” by frontman Jarvis Cocker, was his attempt to […]
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My heart races, thumping a staccato rhythm through my chest. My palms slicken and sweat seeps through the fibres of my t-shirt. Mum and dad sit across the dining table from me. Our dirty plates sit in front of us almost cleared of the meat and three-veg that was mum’s specialty. I had barely tasted […]
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Completing a PhD is challenging under regular circumstances, but even more so when you’re a trans person hiding who you are. This was part of my motivation for coming out in the past year, a decision I had put off for years because in my home country, serious violations of LGBTQ rights are commonplace, and […]
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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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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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“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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