Here’s a flattering profile of me in T Magazine Australia.
I live and work on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia.
Find me on Instagram.
My first novel, The Work, was published in April 2024. My other books are all non-fiction and include Who Gets to be Smart (2021), Eggshell Skull (2018), and Beauty (2019).
I run a weekly newsletter. Subscribe to News & Reviews here.
In 2024 I co-founded Bibliocarta — a company offering travel for readers and a library for travellers.
Together with the Women’s Justice Network I founded the ‘Freadom Inside’ project that gets books to women incarcerated in NSW. We’re now crowdfunding to pay women with lived experience to run book club programs for those still inside. Support them here.
published in Meanjin
Winter 2021
Short story, ‘Winner, Winner’
published in The Saturday Paper
in three parts — Part 1; Part 2; and Part 3.
July 2020
TO OTHER BOOKS
Choice Words: a collection of writing about abortion
edited by Louise Swinn
Allen & Unwin, 2019
‘Correspondence’ to Quarterly Essay 72 - Net Loss
by Sebastian Smee
‘Correspondence’ to Quarterly Essay 83 - Top Blokes
by Lech Blaine
an investigation into the people left behind and millions in debts when Ellery Land Pty Ltd closed
April 2023
A review of Losing Face
by George Haddad
August 2022
‘Desire’s Conspiracies’:
an essay reviewing The Right to Sex
by Amia Srinivasan
September 2021
‘Ill-informed consent’:
on teaching consent in Australian schools
May 2021
‘Dangerous Precedents’:
on the legal avenues for dealing with Christian Porter
April 2021
‘Ben Quilty in Bleeding Colour’
February 2019
T MAGAZINE AUSTRALIA
December 2022
Remembering The Importance of Fallow Seasons in a Productivity-Obsessed World
September 2022
The Fickleness of History
August 2022
The Point of Art When The World Is At War
May 2022
The Ways Travel Changes Us
March 2022
Should You Include Your Children in Your Carbon Footprint Calculations?
December 2021
AND COMMENT FOR
THE SATURDAY PAPER
by Sydney Theatre Company
12 November 2022
‘Queensland affirmative consent laws follow NSW example’
9 July 2022
‘Delays are allowing abusers to hide assets from their victims’
26 March 2022
‘The revolution will be organised’
18 December 2021
Review of Julius Caesar
by Sydney Theatre Company
27 November 2021
'The uneven justice of defamation law in Australia
13 November 2021
NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman on defamation reform, consent law reform, and RSE education
29 May 2021
Review of Stop Girl by Belvoir St Theatre
3 April 2021
‘Between Here and Justice’ extended essay on the ‘March4Justice’, Porter allegations, Higgins, etc.
20 March 2021
Review of Playing Beatie Bow by Sydney Theatre Company 6 March 2021
Review of Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
27 February 2021
Review of The Picture of Dorian Gray
by the Sydney Theatre Company
5 December 2020
Review of Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
28 November 2020
The old guard preventing consent law reform
15 August 2020
Dyson Heydon and sexual harassment in the legal profession
27 June 2020
Queensland’s domestic violence struggle
29 February 2020
Proposed reforms to NSW consent laws
16 November 2019
Portrait of Sydney Contemporary Art Fair Director, Barry Keldoulis
7 September 2019
Profile of supergroup Seeker, Lover, Keeper
17 August 2019
The High Court’s decision to rule a known sperm donor the child’s legal father
29 June 2019
Art Gallery of South Australia’s new director: Rhana Devenport
8 June 2019
The fight to reform Queensland’s consent laws
25 May 2019
The flaws in Queensland’s Bill of Rights draft
8 December 2018
Queensland debating abortion reform
22 September 2018
My inbox after #MeToo
8 September 2018
Exclusive:
Christian Lobby academic heads law school
21 July 2018
21 August 2022
The Craig McLachlan case shows how far we still have to go in the fight for consent law reform
22 December 2020
Coverage of the #LetHerSpeak campaign after winning ABIA for Best Biography
3 May 2019
Queensland is the worst state in Australia for survivors to try to access justice
13 December 2018
Coverage of the #LetHerSpeak campaign to reform gag laws in Tasmania and the Northern Territory
19 November 2018
Considerations for and against the jury system in Australian courts
21 July 2018
What I learned from going to the police
and writing Eggshell Skull
21 May 2018
An interview with author Eileen Ormsby
about her book The Darkest Web
22 March 2018
An interview with author Dr Nikki Stamp
about her book Can You Die of a Broken Heart?
24 February 2018
An interview with author Caroline Baum
about her memoir Only
7 March 2017
An interview with author Holly Throsby
about her novel Goodwood
10 October 2016
An interview with author Liam Pieper
about his novel The Toymaker
21 July 2016
CULTURAL JOURNALISM
10 July 2020
‘All the Right Moves’, Good Weekend
14 December 2019
‘The 'devastatingly intense' lessons in Christos Tsiolkas' Damascus’, Good Weekend
14 December 2019
‘Ratatouille dishes up food for the soul’, Good Weekend
16 November 2019
‘The Perfect Lie: perfectionism and the evils of social media’, Harpers Bazaar Australia
1 March 2019
‘On Rape by Germaine Greer is not good enough to be truly controversial’, Crikey
6 September 2018
‘Why does season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale sound so good?’, Double J
20 June 2018
‘How sci-fi soundtracks shape our imagining of the future’, Double J
5 June 2018
‘Megan Washington on playing with stutters and symphony orchestras’, The Upsider
10 October 2017
‘Mother-daughter label OATS proves mums make the best business partners’, i-D
19 July 2016
AND ISSUES-BASED JOURNALISM
‘How Australian courts are stacked against victims of sexual assault’, Crikey, 12 June 2018
‘Young lady, that’s inappropriate: statistics and prejudice for women in law’, Griffith Review #56, 2017
February 2019 issue #25
Nuance and negligence: #MeToo and the art world
August 2018 issue #23
An interview with long-time collaborators Lyn & Tony June 2018 issue #22
“Urban Art Projects” and an interview with Daniel Tobin 2017 Issue #20
When fashion and art meet: Ingrid Verner and her collaboration with Lisa Waup
July 2017 Issue #19
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