Queerstories

Queerstories blog

Last month, I produced my first Queerstories as a ‘ticketed’ event, at Giant Dwarf for Sydney Fringe. Queerstories began as a free LGBTQI storytelling night at Late Night Library, but it was so popular I was keen to see if it could work in a bigger venue. We sold out Giant Dwarf’s 260 seats and […]

Fruit, Sex and Nine Inch Nails

Lady Sings It Nine Inch Nails

This week, Lady Sings it Better launched our collaboration with ACON’s women’s project, Claude.  Our video, a playful cover of ‘Closer’ by the Nine Inch Nails, is a not-quite-safe-for-work reinvention of the ‘condom on the banana’ demonstration we all remember from high school. Its point is to spread awareness about same-sex attracted women’s health. Did you know […]

A queer girl’s guide to Valentine’s Day

I know Valentine’s Day has passed and we’re now well into Sydney Mardi Gras season but I wrote this piece for Daily Life a few weeks ago so am sharing it here now. It’s a queer girl’s guide to Valentine’s Day and, spoiler alert, it’s a day I think is pretty silly… I did manage […]

Marriage Equality and the Transparent Season 2 Premiere

I wrote for Junkee about Transparent’s Season 2 Premiere and about how happy I was to finally see a gay wedding depicted in a way that reflects my views on marriage equality. Hint: I am a bit of a marriage grinch. It’s part TV recap, part review, part opinion tirade about the institution of marriage. Spoiler […]

That Gayby Baby furore

In August, on the eve of Gayby Baby’s release, with schools around the country preparing to screen the film for Wear it Purple Day, the Daily Telegraph saw fit to cover its front page with homophobic attacks on the schools, the families in the film and the filmmakers. #GaybyBaby trended for days as thousands came out […]

Blurred Lines

This article appeared in the Star Observer on 4 October 2013. My Facebook feed, dominated by queers, has been quick to share parodies and outraged blog posts about Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines. But where is the outrage when it comes to the ‘blurred lines’ in our own community, namely the appalling way we tend to […]

The Extraordinary Krystle Warren

This article appeared on the Gay News Network on 28 February 2012. American singer-songwriter Krystle Warren can sing love songs to me any day she wants. And with a jam-packed Australian tour happening through March, I don’t have to wait long to make this dream a reality. Her latest EP, A Time to Keep – […]

Australian Stage profile: Maeve Marsden

This profile appeared on Australian Stage on 12 August 2009, in the lead up to Lady Sings it Better’s debut season. For me, the burning question is, what was the inspiration or motivating factor that eventuated in a group of women singing popular songs that were originally written and performed by men?In a longterm sense […]

The Battle for Fun: Queers & Straights

I recently posted this photo to the ‘this is oz’ website, an Australian initiative which basically involves people posting an anti-homophobia message in the form of a photo of themselves with a handwritten sign. The posts vary from playful, to political, to passionate pleas for equality, to more abstract statements. I have received mixed responses […]

show us ya fjord

I found this quote in Orlando by Virginia Woolf and it seemed like a good place to start… ´Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. The shade of green Orlando now saw spoilt […]