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Blue Fifth Review made me one of their feature poets in 2003 and published these uncollected poems. The theme was ‘place’. ‘Place: of Invisibility’ ’Place: of Beauty’ PDF file, as it appeared online, below. https://lizhalldowns.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/safari-22-mar-2019-at-1053-am-1.pdf
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In the same way as so much of my work in the 1980s was ignored and derided and is now considered ‘cutting edge’ over 30 years later, so I see the same thing with so many activist friends. I thought this incredible post from my dear friend, poet and musician, Elizabeth ‘Lish’ Skec was worth […]
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I’m proud to know the amazing disabled activist Imani Barbarin. Smart, funny and incisive, she’s worth following if you give a damn about what’s going on in the disability space. Which we all should be, because most of us will experience disability at some point in our lives, one way or another. Recently Imani started […]
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A friend of ours married a lovely young lady from Vietnam; they have a beautiful young daughter who took many years to conceive and is therefore something of a miracle child, and much loved. An’s parents have come over to Australia, from their home in Ho Chi Minh City, for a year to spend […]
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We cannot be anything but ourselves. I know some incredible people. Having a chronic, painful, and lifelong disability, I am at home a lot, so I use social media as a tool for thinking, discussing, and throwing ideas around, especially ideas I want to write about. I have met some great people who also […]
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