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Dancing with McQueen
At 1:35am we finally arrived to our hotel. Melbourne looked peaceful at night. The sky was unfamiliar and sprawling. Mesmerized, I watched out the window as glittery fingers stretched across the darkness, all the way to the countryside. I never liked Melbourne. I found the weather too cold, the coffee over-rated and the idea of…
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My last night in Sydney
It was a Friday night and the first night I had touched alcohol in 2 months. I had been silently proud of myself, counted the days which turned into weeks; with every occasion out an opportunity to practise saying no. No, thank you I’m dry…. No I can”t I’m pregnant. Pregnant with purpose… No thanks,…
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Self-preservation 22′
Self-preservation womenswear 2022 ’Self-preservation’ is a womenswear collection that encourages contemplation, in how we treat other human-beings much like how we treat our clothing. We discard, we keep, and we store sometimes even just the memory of people, long after they’ve left us. As the collection progresses, the harsh quilted plastic sheds itself like a…
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Easy-buttons
“ I actually think you’re really interesting… some of the people online don’t say anything,” the table to the left of me said. The guy is seated his legs-crossed, in the corner. Opposite sits a petite girl, with reddish hair. She nods vigorously. It’s been 4 months since I’ve been on a date. I was kind…
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A walk with happiness
On the weekends, I wake up in my apartment building to a whole different place. The frantic frazzled nature of footsteps and shuffling are silent, as the lifts stay empty and you can almost hear everyone exhale, as it marks the two days of freedom. Two days where you don’t need to rush anywhere, do…
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A mother to remember
I can see my former, kid-self fling my school shoe in frustration off my feet and it colliding with the glass doors. And then my dad instantaneously bursting into my room, his eyes fixed on the gaping hole. Woah, was all I could remember saying. I wake up everyday at my mother’s house with excitement…
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X= Self-destruction Pie ✨
Was it machoism, insecurity from high-school, childhood trauma or our pathetic human need to see the good in people? Why was going back to someone who treated us so disposably, so delicious? There we were, like some toxic mating ritual, waiting for our coffees and staring at each other. Then, noticing and blaming the other…
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Konnichiwa 30
I haven’t written anything in a while, and by a while I mean months. I’ve been in a writer’s drought. Or if you were a writer you would call it lazy.I thought it was just a pause, a flicker. And then it snowballed into full-on avoidance. If I was being honest, I was in pain. And…
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Chunky Lemon
Ahhhhhhhhhh. My fingers hit the keyboard for the first time in months, as thoughts slowly poured out instead of sprinting, from my head… to my mouth… to a pen… to a google document… But here tonight, I finally felt every letter of the word, calm. I could see the shape of my thoughts and ideas;…
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Lovers and Friends
After a weekend that seemed to never end (in the best possible way), I came back down to Earth on Monday morning. Feeling tired but elated, I could feel a smile press into my lips, as I swam in the pool. Bliss dancing all over my body, in an embarrassing way, close-your-blinds kind of way.…
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Internal Sunshine
“Is that… what I think it is… ON THE BACK OF MY DEER!!?” ” Yep.” The male textile teacher said, as we both peered at my rather unfortunate deer-print. It seemed to have grown a labia on one of the deer’s backs. “Excellent.” “And to think it’ll only get more crazy after you put it…
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Fuck copper pots, friends & calm candles
“A copper crock-pot is… 1,437-fucking-dollars? Good goddd!“ It was 11:06pm on a Wednesday night – hump night. And for those of us who have been at work all day and don’t feel like humping anyone, we default to internet shopping. This activity was just as mentally exhausting as the latter, both involving a bed and…
Beyond Curious 