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i am going through something at the moment. Aside from fighting for the funding needed to keep the cleaning service i need to not lose my home, we’re also trying to get approval for funding for online counselling with an autism spectrum specialising counsellor in Melbourne. Because the appointments cannot be face to face, they’d cost around $200 a ( Read more... )

A friend of mine, Kimbera Sherva, shared the following from the Facebook page “Have a Gay Day”

Last week, as part of a cultural discovery project for one of my classes, I spent three days wearing ‘girls’ clothes while going about my day. I wanted to explore the general reaction and preconceptions that people in my city have to clothi

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i’m in a bit of a mood at the moment. over the weekend someone who should know better expressed a judgemental and dismissive attitude towards my health problems. specifically, in this case, my difficulties with the bins. for those playing from outside australia, our bins look a lot like this:


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On March 5th 2012, Invisible Children released a video called Kony 2012 documenting the atrocities of Jospeh Kony, a Ugadan Warlord and head of the LRA. This video went viral and made a lot of us very angry, creating conversations and memes on facebook and twitter and spreading around the net, with #kony2012 trending globally on twitter and youtube ( Read more... )

The concept of copy/paste memes to create awareness and action, while an interesting concept, is innately flawed and impotent. While it’s a potentially useful tool, the way it’s most commonly used right now is ineffective.

What happens is that one person posts a vague and often guilt trip of a post about a certain topic that they feel strongly ( Read more... )