My physio cheered me on with a simple ‘Yeah, you can do it!’ as we aced our second pass at the Mardi Gras parade route after my right-leg amputation last … Read the rest “Second Mardi Gras Test-Run”
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‘My leg has fallen off,’ I told a colleague yesterday when she asked about my activities in the foyer at work. I was seated “reattaching” my prosthetic leg which had … Read the rest “Screw Loose”
“I love some good old-fashioned drag”, I whispered in the ear of my friend, Michaela, one of the friends I attended the First Nations Supreme Drag Queen Event at Carriageworks … Read the rest “Laughter & Tears”
“Why is the parade going THAT way?”, my colleague and friend, Sam asked me last night, as we tried to make our way through Surry Hills. We were both a … Read the rest “Mardi Gras / World Pride (Part Two)”
“I think she might be Scomo’s biggest mistake”, an “old leftie” whispered into my ear at the Andrew Olle Media Lecture.
There was a perception, rightly or wrongly, that the … Read the rest “Big Events”
For the first time today in decades, I felt that all too common feeling of sunburn on the back of my neck. Though sunburn was pretty common when I was … Read the rest “Red and Purple”