Mia Boonen - The Penny Mint

2 min read

Smoke.

I think we were his ghosts, Pulling up at the pub he never opened, While the car radio played the news. Smoke. It was just a pit stop along the highway - a

1 min read

Memoir

This One's For Bill.

There is nothing like the bond that lives between kids and old people, and while I'm sure Bill would actively contest the idea that he ever reached "old age", the sentiment remains true. I couldn't put a name to it, but something special happens whenever memory and imagination meet.

3 min read

Anecdotes

"You can hold two truths at once, Mia. Someone can be beautiful in your life and terrible in another's."

3 min read

Don't Be A Dumbass. Writing to the Hippocratic Oath

After years of being told that women shouldn't be angry—that we shouldn't be loud and disgruntled and ugly in public—I've found myself like a kid banned from drawing on the walls: all the more willing to do it.

5 min read

C.H.R.Y.S.A.L.I.S

All covered up in a brown nest I learned to call a “chrysalis” / And I could spell it too: C.H.R.Y.S.A.L.I.S. / And she told me that patience had power, That the caterpillar in the chrysalis would turn to goo and then into a butterfly. And all I had to do was wait.

Moving Into Home: Recipes for Moving Out

2 min read

Recipes

Moving out for the first time, it is easy to forget how much the notion of home and community revolves around food. Nor do you stop running long enough to pause and reflect on how quickly your diet has degraded to two minute noodles.

2 min read

On Unions and the Working Class.

In my father’s household, Peter Lalor was the name of a saint. From it all, I’d learnt a valuable lesson: if the higher-ups won’t listen, make them.

3 min read

I Am A Lion. On 'Melb Guys Pal'

More and more, I find myself wondering if it’s been a smart idea to be so public with what a friend of mine calls “lion feminism”: the loud and proud statements against sexism that put my anger in the public eye.

3 min read

A Body in a Borrowed Shirt

I’m wearing a borrowed shirt / and I’ve stained it with a dish I call / “curry adjacent”

1 min read

Video

Homebody

"Solace" sounds better than "solitude", I think, and "rhythm" sounds better than "rut".

1 min read

International Women's Day: Letters to Feminism

Happy International Women's Day! Mia Boonen & Ella Crowley have both written letters to feminism - expressing their love for womanhood and their problems with the patriarchy

by Ella Crowley

3 min read

Memoir

Melbourne Music. A Year Later.

About a year ago, I wrote an article on here announcing a boycott of all line-ups without gender diversity. There have been a lot of consequences, and I thought I’d take the time to share some of them with you

2 min read

A Long Time

You’re sitting atop buildings and looking out at sunsets and drinking beer and smoking. I’m on my front porch while it rains.