as featured in Antithesis Journal, October 25, 2018 John Fawcett’s sophomore film, 2000’s Ginger Snaps, explores the misadventures of Ginger Fitzgerald after she’s bitten by a vicious werewolf. The infected Ginger subsequently unleashes her teenage rage upon her suburban neighbourhood as her doting sister, Brigitte Fitzgerald, desperately searches for a cure. Previously, werewolf horror films… Continue reading Girlhood, Adolescence and Body Horror in ‘Ginger Snaps’
Category: Non-fiction
EXCERPT Tied up in red tape: state policy on sex work in South Australia
I’m late. I run across the road and try not to trip or drop the contents of my makeup-laden handbag on the road. Abi and Arianna (Ari) smile and wave to me from their table in the café, an offering called My Kingdom For A Horse. The paint scheme inside is divine: a tri-coloured horizontal… Continue reading EXCERPT Tied up in red tape: state policy on sex work in South Australia
Pear trees and post-natal depression
Two weeks before he was born, Flynn scared me with an episode of Braxton Hicks. I spent a long Saturday night on a pink exercise ball in the lounge. All my organs were dancing and I felt like a soup-bag full of baby feet. If I went to the hospital, would they laugh and send me home? Maybe he would magically arrive that night in… Continue reading Pear trees and post-natal depression
Cholera tornado
There is a last time for everything, and sometimes I get scared when I think a ‘last time’ is drawing close. The last time I said I loved my father? I can’t tell you when it was. I think I stopped saying it in my twenties, when we still caught up for dinner every few… Continue reading Cholera tornado
Bowie: some thoughts
Was I always a fan of David Bowie? Not particularly. I mean, I quite liked him as Jareth in the wacky cult movie Labyrinth, for which he penned much of the soundtrack. Cue saxophones, bursting singalongs by a jaded romantic prince-villain, and rousing lullabies to a borrowed/stolen baby. Weird, right? I'd expect nothing less of him. During… Continue reading Bowie: some thoughts
Lobster shoes
As I walk out of the airport I can barely breathe – the air is too thick and wet for my lungs. I text my husband: I’ve made a mistake, I shouldn’t have come here. He doesn’t reply. This is meant to be my last adventure, a final escapade before we start trying for a… Continue reading Lobster shoes
A labour
2.00am, Saturday morning: You wake up in the dark. The bed is warm and your husband sleeps soundly next to you. There’s a rhythmic cramp spreading throughout your pelvic area, like a period cramp. But it feels too repetitive for that. You don’t know much about your pelvis except that there’s been a lot going… Continue reading A labour
Review: DARK MOFO Nude Swim
Heard of MONA? Tl;dr: self-proclaimed ‘arseholic’ David Walsh makes a fortune playing blackjack (among other things), and invests in a Tasmanian museum now named MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) that he vamps out with art about – what else? – sex and death. MONA’s mantra? "We believe things like art history and the… Continue reading Review: DARK MOFO Nude Swim
Review: Ginger Snaps
Ginger snaps. Delicious treats constructed from ginger-flavoured biscuity-stuff rolled into a cigar, and pumped full of brandy cream. The cigars can be prepared ahead of time and frozen for several months, so they're basically available whenever you want to devour them. Ginger Snaps (the film) tells the story of the Fitzgerald girls, who are far… Continue reading Review: Ginger Snaps