Tag: mardi gras

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  23/02/2024Blogging

  Second Mardi Gras Test-Run

  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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  24/01/2024Blogging

  Screw Loose

  ‘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”

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  02/03/2023Blogging

  Laughter & Tears

  “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”

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  26/02/2023Blogging

  Mardi Gras / World Pride (Part Two)

  “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)”

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  25/06/2022Blogging

  Big Events

  “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”

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  24/02/2022Blogging

  Red and Purple

  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”