Every now and then I post a series of posts. In order to make it a bit easier to find them, I’m listing them here.
The duty of fiction writers to tell the truth
This is a series about Jodi Picoult’s use of false rape allegations in two of her books. The series poses the question: do writers of fiction have a duty to pay attention to the sterotypes and assumptions they use in their writing?
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Reconciliation Week 2009
This series was an attempt to post daily during Reconciliation Week 2009
(27 May – 3 June).
A little activism against the Intervention
Dying languages; languages coming back to life
Reconcilation Week and NAIDOC Week
Discrimination in the provision of education
Stereotypes and assumptions
Indigenous Australian stories in the Australian mainstream
Mabo – what it means, what it doesn’t mean
Accessibility and Sydney’s public transport
This will be an ongoing series, which commenced in March 2010. It includes posts which comment on some of the accessibility problems on Sydney public transport.
Accessibility and Sydney’s public transport: knowing where you’re going
Accessibility and Sydney’s public transport: people with different mobilities on buses
2012 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge
This is a full list of all of my posts relevant to the 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge.
Initial sign-up post, including my challenge criteria
My list of books
Review #1: Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Review #2: Cargo by Jessica Au
Review #3: We of the Never Never by Mrs Aeneas Gunn
Review #4: Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Summary post
Extra review: Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
Extra review: The Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison
2015 Australian Women Writer’s Challenge
This is a full list of all of my posts relevant to the 2015 Australian Women Writers Challenge.
Initial sign-up post, including my challenge criteria
My list of books
Review #1: Maralinga: The Anangu Story by the Yalata and Oak Valley Communities
Review #2: Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Review #3: In Her Blood by Annie Hauxwell
Review #4: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
Review #5: MumShirl: an autobiography with assistance from Bobbi Sykes
Review #6: Too Flash by Melissa Lucashenko
Review #7: Peony by Eileen Chong
Summary post
Extra review: Every Secret Thing by Marie Munkara
