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  • Korea’s Terra Nullius: Why You Shouldn’t Watch Arthdal Chronicles

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    From its first scene, the Arthdal Chronicles is rife with colonising symbolism and narratives that, unfortunately, are somewhat too close to home.

  • Dame Holly doesn’t wear the hat so much anymore

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    This blog has always been a bit thematically slapdash. That’s not surprising, since it was created as an addendum to my Twitter account. I wanted to talk climate science and sometimes Twitter just wasn’t enough. But in the last year or so, my tweets and posts on climate have faltered quite a lot. Parts of…

  • OTP: The Best OTP is a NOTP

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    Soon after I discovered K-drama, I watched Boys Before Flowers. This classic introduced me to the Kdrama tropes I was only just starting to recognize. The second male lead syndrome. The dead fish kiss. The chaebol jerk. The insane mother-in-law. The wealthy asshole male lead won over by impoverished-but-good-hearted female lead. The wealthy asshole male…

  • Haitus Part the Second

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    My apologies for not putting this blog on hiatus before Christmas. As most of you know, there was a lot going on at the end of last year. Part of this was my preparations for a bit of an epic travel tour. I’ve just come back from three weeks in Antarctica (which was amazing) and…

  • The Dame’s Guide to Uterus Removal: So You’re Having a Hysterectomy

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    When you first decide to have a hysterectomy, one of the most astonishing things you discover is just how common it is. In the great tradition of soldiering on, most women schedule life-altering surgery in between the school lunches and the afternoon laundry. When I wrote my original blog post about needing to have the…

  • Happy not-birthday to you

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    It’s Mum’s birthday this Saturday, the 8 October. Yesterday the family had a combined birthday and housewarming party with a dash of birthday for Dad’s brother, Russell, as well. In the Ensor tradition, this is known as a not-birthday – a celebration that’s not on the day of. Mum (and Russell) had a riotous not-birthday…

  • The Vulnerability of Hope

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    My Aunt called me a few weeks ago. She said she’d been watching 60 Minutes and had heard about an ‘amazing new drug’ that could ‘reverse stroke’. I was immediately skeptical. I’m no medical expert by any measure but I have spent a lot of time reading, writing and thinking about stroke over the last…

  • Why I’m Coming Out of the Closet

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    The funny thing is, when I joined Twitter about six years ago I never intended for my gender to be ambiguous. However, as a public servant, I did feel that I needed to be anonymous. I already had a name – Lee Tennant. It was an androgynous name I used online and that I planned…

  • Turdsday Again: R U OK

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    Is that a trick question? Yesterday was R U OK day and for Mum it had somewhat of a different impact than intended. As far as I can gather, the television kept asking her if she was OK and since the answer was ‘no’, she got extremely depressed. The ‘black dog’ has been stalking Mum…

  • Cut and colour

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    Mum had a lovely day at the hairdresser on Saturday and wanted everyone to see her new ‘do’. The stylists at Shear Art at Victoria Point were truly lovely to her, giving her a hand and arm massage and doing her makeup as well. I’m not sure why it was Mum that needed a makeover…