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In Too Deep: Mardi Gras from the Closet 6 Ongoing: A Tutor on Falling Uni Standards 7 Overcoming Female Sexual Dysfunction 8 Feature: Domestic Violence on Campus 14-17 The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi Soit is written, printed, and distributed on Aboriginal land. If you are reading this, you are standing on Aboriginal land. Please recognise and respect this. We acknowledge both our privilege and our obligation to redress the situation as best we can: to remember the mistakes of the past, act on the problems of today, and build a future for everyone who calls this place home, striving always for practical and meaningful reconciliation. Contents

4: News & Analysis 8-9: Perspective II 14-17: Feature Max Hall on distability access to Redfern Station. Will Edwards on politics and queer spaces. Astha Rajvanshi on domestic violence on Anonymous doesn’t care about metadata. Anonymous on female sexual dysfunction. campus and Counselors share their stories. Mary Ward hates tutorial participation marks. 5: Perspective I Lyra Talise on how to solicit a sex worker. 16-19: Flotsam Phoebe Moloney on the history of abortion. An economics tutor explains Tinder Game Theory. 10: Profile Peter Walsh and Sam Jonscher are floating bodies. 6: In Too Deep Elise Galati interviews Mari Velonaki. Victoria Zerbst on dating an Effective Altruist. Anonymous on Mardi Gras as a closeted gay man. Sam Langford on the asterisk in wom*n. 11-13: Arts & Culture 7: Ongoing Harry Welsh on black bodies in film. 24: Puzzles Anonymous and Alexi Polden on University Charlie O’Grady on SUDS’ The Removalists. profiteering. Sophie Gallagher on All About Women. 25-27: The Garter Press Editorial

I didn’t vote in the last State election, de- their management transferred from spe- violence, the name seems depressingly apt. In this week’s Honi, we hope to draw your spite being eligible (and legally obliged) to cialist providers to large, faith-based char- attention to an issue that deserves more do so. Faced with a corrupt Labor incum- ities with limited expertise. And most of Unfortunately, the Baird government’s ‘re- airtime. Turn to page 14, and read Astha bent and a heartless Liberal challenger, I the shelters that remain are open only on forms’ coincided with federal cuts to legal Rajvanshi’s feature on experiences of do- didn’t think it mattered much who won. the condition that they service all homeless assistance—Abbott’s government cut $15 mestic violence on campus. Be sure to read people in their area. According to one esti- million from the legal aid budget in 2014- the first hand ccountsa of family violence It did. Last year, the State Government an- mate, the number of women’s-only refuges 15 alone. This will disproportionately hurt from five remarkable women who have nounced a package of reforms to homeless- across the state has fallen from 100 to 14. victims of domestic violence, who may re- shared their experiences. On page 17, hear ness services and women’s refuges in NSW. quire legal assistance to file Apprehended from two women who worked as domestic The eformsr were complicated and confus- ‘Women-only’ refuges aren’t the only spe- Violence Orders, or contest family law dis- violence crisis counsellors. ing, wrapped up in the corporate jargon of cialist services to disappear. We also lost putes. consolidation and tendering and efficiency. services that catered to women on the mar- Like the State election, articles in student gins: those who are Indigenous, culturally It is deeply disheartening that State and publications are not always talked about. The reforms have severely compromised or linguistically diverse, queer, transgender. Federal governments can cut these vital However, chances are that the issues at the the support services available to those flee- services with apparent ease. It also hints at heart of both will have affected, or will af- ing domestic violence. Some women’s shel- The NSW government called its package a deeper social apathy towards the victims fect, you or the people close to you. ters lost their funding altogether and were of reforms ‘Going Home Staying Home’. of family violence. forced to close their doors. Many more had When it comes to victims of domestic Alex Downie

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Editor-in-Chief: Alex Downie Contributors: Anonymous’, William Edwards, Elise Cover art: Behind Closed Doors, Eds. Galati, Max Hall, Sam Langford, Phoebe Moloney, Charlie Editors: Tim Asimakis, Joanna Connolly, Dominic Ellis, O’Grady, Astha Rajvanshi, Lyra Talise, Victoria Zerbst, Artists/Illustrators: Stephanie Barahona, April Kang, Sophie Gallagher, Samantha Jonscher, Patrick Morrow, Mary Ward, Harry Welsh, Victoria Zerbst. Wanyi Xin (Cabbage). Alexi Polden, Peter Walsh, Rebecca Wong. Proofreader: Lachlan Deacon Puzzles: Scribblex

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On “Behind An An in science because we are too stupid and end up just complaining about how science The Veil” Undercover Inconvenient is a field largely dominated by men.

Journalist Truth? As a science student I find this kind of Dear Fatema Ali, and the Muslim arm chair drivel frustrating. Wom*n’s Collective, ​Dear Honi, Dear Honi, J Shaw The feature by Georgia Behrens “We Contrary to Kerrod Gream’s claims Is Leigh Nicholson really suggesting that a Science Are The Exotic Other, See Behind The in his recent letter (‘A Fraction of the few paragraphs of armchair reasoning from Veil” was a life-changing insight into the Truth’), I personally spoke to volunteers an undergraduate, attempted, student perspectives of Muslim Wom*n at USYD. at the stalls of the Libertarian journalist is enough to dissuade readers Society, the Conservative Club, and from taking a scientific, peer reviewed Thoughts/ I have found personally my interactions every group named in ‘At a Faction of paper seriously? with Muslim Wom*n have shown me a the Cost’. Yet none were overtly asked Feelings/ passion to fight for a greater good, and a to comment for Honi Soit as the article While some of the points that Nicholson persistence that is simply immeasurable. was a work of undercover journalism. I raises about culture and society influencing Opinions told them my interest in their groups was perception of flirtatious behaviour are Whether it was organising parachute personal, rather than journalistic, because mildly interesting, the point of repeating impressed by grug on drugs this week. sized-banners that say “Refugees to accurately report on the experience the study in multiple—and hugely varied Welcome” and “Fuck the ALP” (circa of OWeek recruitment I had to actually societies—was to counteract this bias. Jim Clifford Rudd and his PNG solution, July 19th experience OWeek recrtuiment, not Nicholson’s complete ignorance to this 2013), engaging hundreds of Muslim just political public relations. methodology as a tool to counterbalance students over cuts to education and societal influences is made even more welfare, or organising in clubs and That the article was researched through acts infuriating by the fact that (s)he quotes communities on campuses, Muslim of undercover journalism rather than overt an explanation for the repetition of the Oops Wom*n have pushed the limitations of request for comment perhaps should have experiment that points this out. our society and will continue to do so. been mentioned in the article itself. As Corrections from last week such I apologise to Honi’s readers for not Did she write the article while drinking I am overjoyed to know that Muslim describing my methods more clearly. and have a change of heart halfway Last week, we misnamed the Chancellor. Wom*n at USYD will have a space through. It reeks of I’m a woman and She is called Belinda Hutchinson, not to support and empower their Yours sincerely, society is mean to me—which compounds Belinda Smith. It is unclear why the community. I only have positive stories the largely misogynistic idea that women author confused her second year lecturer of how collectives have supported me William Edwards do not and cannot understand or partake with the University Chancellor, she in my understanding and impact on the Arts II sincerely apologises. individual and the world. Get involved with two hands and let yourself begin Apologies to Suvarna Variyar (Week 1) this specific journey of self-determination and Julia Clark (Week 2), whose names and resistance with other fantastic people. were misspelled.

To those who aren’t Muslim Wom*n, I Apologies to Maggi and Fantastic. encourage you to uncover your own ideas, Last week we ran an article calling into behaviours and attitudes, learnt through question the culinary basis for their thedominant hegemonies in our society oriental-flavoured instant noodles. Food of sexism and racism, and the increased Standards Australia and NZ have since impacts of Islamaphobia. The way we can emailed to clarify that “The descriptor show solidarity and support to Muslim ‘oriental flavour’ meets the requirements of Wom*n is to listen, self-educate, and the Code and indicates that the product is follow suit in shutting down those who’d a noodle with a flavour”. continue to push Islamaphobia as a manner of manipulating Australian society.

To those who identify as Muslim Wom*n, or would like to support intersectionality, Farewell, feminism and empowered wom*n, I encourage you to join me in attending Lisa the Muslim Wom*n’s Collecrive’s launch (non-autonomous) on this Wednesday Due to academic commitments, Lisa Xia 12pm for three hours of celebration. has resigned as an editor of Honi Soit. The decision was not made lightly, and we Andy Zephyr, wish Lisa the best of luck as she pursues Arts/Social Work I a scholarship at the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School.

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3 news & analysis Lift, Off?

Redfern Station continues to fail disability standards, reports train correspondent Max Hall.

elayed and slow progress on plans some elderly individuals to travel to plans for a full upgrade of Redfern station. that period. to install a single lift at Redfern Central by bus before boarding a train. A preferred option was identified which DStation has seen renewed calls for With fifty thousand customers a day, would have closed the current entrances SRC Disabilities and Carers Officer improved disabled access to the entire Redfern is the largest station in Sydney to the station and provided lift and stair Sam Brewer suggested that the lack of station. without full lift access. access via a bridge spanning the centre progress at Redfern Station is indicative of all existing platforms. These changes of the broader issue of providing equal The Transport Minister, GladysWhile welcoming the current plan as would bring the station into compliance opportunity for those with a disability. Berejiklian, announced the installation an interim measure, campaigners noted with the Disability Discrimination Act “How can we expect equality for people of the lift on platforms 6 and 7 in that anything but full accessibility still and safety standards requiring multiple with disabilities if there aren’t lifts on January 2014. Berejiklian appears to places greater strain on individuals with exits in the event of an emergency. each platform in one of the most used have re-announced the same project in limited mobility, by forcing them to stations in Sydney? The fact of the matter August before a tender process for its switch trains a number of times. “What Turnbull expressed concern that the is you’re segregating human beings from construction began in October. we need is the Government to commit planned upgrade has been delayed using an area that is a hub for student to a timeframe for a full upgrade,” said so the Government can explore the transport, the closest station to Sydney The commitment to a single lift comes Geoff Turnbull, a spokesperson for possibility of commercial development University.” after several years of pressure from community group REDWatch. above the station. It is likely that the community groups. They argue that redevelopment of the station to include The Government, once again, refused the lack of accessibility at Redfern is In 2013, over 800 pages of planning residential premises or businesses would to fucking comment on my small time discriminatory as it forces disabled documents obtained by GIPA request take more than a decade. The station news story. I would like to thank the commuters, mothers with prams, and from the NSW Government detailed would be without full disabled access for Academy.

Choose Your Own I know I should care Adventure #4 that the government has A story started by us and my metadata but I don’t, continued by you. because I don’t know what it is This week from Nur Arina: You scramble to make way for a treatise on coastal erosion get your phone out; you know from experience for geography class… Anonymous speaks for all of us. that it’s sturdy enough to take a bullet (2009 was, in a way, a wild year for us all). In the time it’s taken to remember this, am really left wing. I care about refugees. Sometimes I say I’m gonna be a Frank’s fist has managed to travel nine- vegetarian. But I don’t know what metadata is. This makes me bad at being ulling the phone from your pocket, tenths of the way towards your face. Just Ileft wing. you’re reminded of that distant year, in time, you hold your phone up like a P2009, when you learned your phone was shield. Somewhere on campus, a first year I am angry about metadata because I care a lot about civil liberties. I say bullet proof (but more on that another Science student asks their tutor “what “Metadata. It’s so bad. HANDS OFF!” But hands off what?! I don’t know! time). You had just started high school—a happens when an immovable object is hit spring in your step, a scrunchie in your with an unstoppable force” and the answer Sometimes I google it. This makes me more confused. Does the government hair—and were excited to finally exercise is the phone wins. know I googled it? some autonomy over your learning. Frank’s fist shatters on striking the Nokia. Maybe I will ask my friend about metadata. She is a vegetarian. After five years of multiple-choice tests, His wrist compacts and fractures forward, being forced to take subjects with little or the way a car’s front-end does on rear- no relevance to your day-to-day life, and ending someone else, and loose bits going through recurring periods of anxiety of bone and marrow and tendon spurt about your appearance that occurred in outwards. What have you done? Worse, such proximity to one another they might the force of the fist striking the Nokia as well have been waves on the shore at causes your Nokia to move backwards, high tide, you were, of course, crushed. But striking you in the forehead. K.O...... in 2009 you still had some hope, and recall leaving class after your first day when you —Blergh! You wake up to the smell of body encountered a Fortune Telling Machine. odour, mountain dew, and elderflower.

You place the two dollars of pocket money “Here, drink some mead”, says a bearded you had remaining (you spent the rest man wearing chainmail. law lawns and returned you to vigour you suspiciously, and you can’t dodge of your money on a Mumford and Sons with the help of some Renaissance the feeling that you should actually album) in the mouth of the Fortune Teller. “Where am I?”, you ask. Around you magic.” enrol for university at some point. people practice archery, forge swords, and Paper spits out: “Wheresoever you go, you distil pheromones to attract fair maidens. “Now that we returned you to What do you do? will bring awful luck to those around you.” health, we must ask something of “We are the Creative Anachronists and I you”, says Bog. “We need someone Email a sentence or two detailing your Spooky, you thought, riding your heelies am Bog”, says their leader heartily (come to infiltrate the C&S Office and next move to [email protected] home, but you soon forget about the to think of it, everything they say is said lodge these registration papers.” In and the finest entry will become the fortune, sacrificing that information to heartily). “We found you festooned on the the distance, their soothsayer eyes jumping off point for the next chapter. 4 what’s on?

Reproducing History

Phoebe Moloney on abortion and white supremacy.

s a younger white, middle class middle class wom*n (like myself ) have and reinstating colonial family structures. The constructed frontiers, embedded in feminist I used to almost relish had in eroding many people’s reproductive As Amy McQuire reported for New Malcolm’s statements, stem from racism theA fact that abortion is still technically rights. Matilda, ‘Care and protection’ orders but also extend beyond it. Legal and illegal in NSW. It was a fun fact to fling pertaining to Aboriginal children have illegal forced sterilisation of wom*n with out at not-so-dedicated (or time-rich) In Australia specifically, it was eugenicists increased four-fold in the last nine years, disabilities occurs at exceptionally high friends and even at my mum; after all, (many of whom were also Australia’s first with the numbers of children being placed rates in Australia today, compared with it was a reminder that my cause was feminists) between 1900 and 1930 who with non-Indigenous carers increasing the rest of the world. Heinous in itself, this still relevant and tangible, because, you first campaigned for legalised abortion. also. practice helps “cover up” sexual assaults know, reproductive autonomy is a serious Their ideal of ‘Scientific Motherhood’, experienced by girls and wom*n with right, right? And of course being a very aimed to secure the complete reproductive The removal of children from Aboriginal disabilities. These wom*n experience the privileged feminist, illegal abortion was autonomy of white, middle-upper class families is a central reproductive rights highest rates of sexual assault in Australia, both serious and not serious: I had never wom*n, while at the same time forcing issue because the desire to reproduce followed by Aboriginal wom*n. met anyone who had been refused an sterilisation upon Aboriginal wom*n and (white) race underlies the consistent denial abortion, or couldn’t afford one or, god wom*n with disabilities. of reproductive rights in this country. Practices that impinge on reproductive forbid, anyone who had been charged with Malcolm Turnbull couldn’t have explained autonomy, such as the removal of children a criminal offence. As Angela Davis illustrates in her Women, it better when he bemoaned decreased and forced sterilisation, also extend to Race and Class, suffragettes all over the fertility rates as the ‘decline of the West.’ the lack of positive rights in Australia, I definitely didn’t interrogate the reasons world argued that making birth control a such as access to affordable childcare and why abortion is still a crime in our state privilege for some and a duty for others “It would be a remarkable irony indeed healthcare (Medicare is restricted by visa beyond the answers that had come all would be an effective method of securing if at the peak of our prosperity and status) as well as vague laws surrounding too easily to me at the time—patriarchy, White Supremacy. technological achievement, the human surrogacy and parenting rights. These #yesallmen, yuck, male doctors. If I had, race, or at least the more developed parts circumstances exclude poor people, single I might have realised that legal and Forced sterilisation was never made of it, lost the will to reproduce itself.” parents, new immigrants and queer people affordable abortion is not the only obstacle, official Australian government policy, but from society’s ongoing reproduction. or even the most important one, to people it has left its mark nonetheless. The last Malcolm identifies the central panic with a uterus achieving autonomy over recorded case of sterilisation abuse in an behind Tony Abbott’s so-called ‘Abortion Yes, gaining legal and affordable abortion when/if and how they reproduce. Aboriginal community took place in 1988, epidemic’: the impending and growing will contribute to reproductive autonomy however Aboriginal academic Larissa need to source workers who are not in Australia. Pro-choicers should be While political and scientific discourse Behrendt says there is anecdotal evidence from ‘the West’ and therefore not part of aware, however, that leaving eugenic and frames and reframes reproductive rights as that the coerced sterilisation of Aboriginal “the most developed parts of the human discriminatory policies unchallenged will solely a ‘Women’s Issue’, this obscures the wom*n still persists today. Removing race”. This concern is based on the same ensure the ‘choice’ to raise children or not web of connections that link the regulation children from Aboriginal families achieves premises underlying the White Australia will only ever be another privilege enjoyed of people’s reproduction to other policies similar goals to sterilisation, fracturing Policy—countries are not ‘developed’ or by a privileged few. of control. It also obscures the role white intergenerational Aboriginal communities ‘under-developed’, people are. 5 in too deep

Mardi Gras Through the Closet Doors

Anonymous talks about the other F-word.

Content warning: homophobia. kind of group horror once before, and a also continued walking. Both were polite, I understand that many queer people love carriage full of people came to the defence and neither of those situations made me Mardi Gras. And that is great, and anyone ’m gay” is a sentence I have said of the woman targeted. I am not so lucky, feel uncomfortable at all. who can find expression or celebration in it exactly one time in my life. It was but the train soon fills, and I hide behind should do so. It also encourages discussion “Iupstairs in the Holme Building, and it was other passengers. I understand that Mardi Gras is an and acknowledgement. I had the pleasure horrible and stressful and an admission of opportunity for queer people of all kinds of standing in a park in a circle of guilt I have never been good at making. I I hear a member of the same group to express and celebrate their sexuality, but wonderful people proposing a toast to the am closeted (and will remain so) because comment on how cute a small child it often seems like it is just an excuse for hard work done, hatred endured, and lives of a religious upbringing, and because dressed as a fairy is. The he-looks-like-one people in opposite sex relationships to get lost so that ‘we can live in a society where my friends and family who are not at all man says that if she’s after fairies, she need drunk and watch the gays. I find myself we can be gay and not be killed’. accepting—a sentiment they express freely look no further than Oxford Street on any reflexively resenting straight people. I can’t and frequently. For reference, I am also day. This garnered a death stare or two, but help it. I wish there was something I could I have been at this university for some aware that none of the ideas I am about no rebuke beyond a click of the tongue. I do to be one of them, but there isn’t. I’ve time, and I have never experienced direct to express are new. For reference, I am a suppose no one was listening. tried. And I find myself wondering why homophobia outside of a few isolated cis white male (and thus my ideas and the one time of the year that is supposed run-ins with religious students, but I have experience are more frequently expressed). I ended up at Mardi Gras by accident, to be about non-conventional sexualities (unprovoked) been called faggot three meeting up with a friend (to whom I am turns into a good night out for straight times on King Street. I remember each And part of me loathes Mardi Gras. out) for a drink after another engagement, people. time, and each is burnt into my memory. who decided I needed to go to ‘gay I used to say that I was grateful that I had I boarded a warm train last Saturday Christmas’. It was interesting, but I dislike I had a friend say it was unfair that there it so easy at uni, but as someone recently wearing a linen suit with a tie and combed it. It is garish and gruesome, in my opinion. is no straight Mardi Gras. I could barely pointed out, I need not be grateful for hair, and I’m hit with a wall of sound from contain my fury as I said that the last few avoiding persecution. a group of rowdy middle-aged couples Mardi Gras seems to be an excuse for hundred years of gay people being stoned, heading to Mardi Gras. They’re dressed people to behave badly. And by people, I burned at the stake or otherwise reviled The word faggot is most likely derived from in colours and have been drinking. One don’t so much mean queer people. was straight Mardi Gras. a Greek word meaning bundle (of wood), woman compliments me on my suit, and and was, I have read, originally meant with another says that I “shouldn’t have any I was groped four times over the course The recent launch of an ally network the implication that gays were fit only for trouble getting some tonight”. Slightly of the night, but not once by a man. (whatever that is) encouraged the wearing burning. This is a rarer idea nowadays, taken aback, I go to thank the first, but her Each time by women. While this did not of colourful clothing to a function to show but is something I have had expressed to husband (holding hands, wedding rings) make me feel unsafe, it was not welcome. support for the all-inclusive rainbow flag. me personally. I can’t walk down a street interrupts me, saying “not if he’s a fag he A muscular man much larger than me This is part of the patronising garishness I holding hands without attracting looks. won’t, he doesn’t care where it comes from” and holding hands with a woman (I am mean—the fetishisation of who someone I can’t be who I am without it being and laughs. His friend, also laughing, says making assumptions about his sexuality), happens to be. You can’t go anywhere something of a novelty to my friends. I am “he looks like one”. also leered at me. He jumped at me and around this time without seeing glitter asked to go shopping with girls, for my told me he was going to fuck me up, and and rainbows and all sorts of gauche style. I can’t tell my parents or the people Because I am ‘straight passing’ (I believe laughed at my recoil. I only interacted exclamations. All identities are valid, but I grew up with if I ever met a man. I can’t is the term), I am fortunate enough not to briefly with two gay men on the night— these things are not the summary of every marry someone I love. I guess Mardi Gras face this kind of homophobia very often. one said he liked my suit as he walked non-straight person, neither is it yours to just leaves me with a bad taste. It left me reeling. I have only seen this past; another said ‘hello’ and smiled, but cover yourself in for an excuse to party.

6 ongoing University Profiteering The More You Know! (The Less I’m Paid)

Anonymous wants to teach you but also wants to have a career.

ver the course of my candidature, unprecedented and swiftly invented where it can be plausibly denied. We’re is if you do it with any degree of passion I’ve taught twice—this is more research output quota. If you’d been busy also, crucially, desperate, grateful, and and skill. Oor less average for a keen PhD student teaching instead of scouring the tertiary hard-working—we rarely cut corners. in Arts—and each time my progress ocean for grants, you had to prove it. If you Like those who rowed the whaleboats, I recall an afternoon I spent, when I first on the PhD slowed to a slug-like crawl. hadn’t been doing enough, you were fired; we’re willing to heave away for terrible tutored, being subjected to a lecture from Halfway through one of those grim, war- if you had, you were, unless you promised pay and brutal conditions, so long as, one a grinning dogmatist of Educational room discussions about the progress of to get back in the whaleboat right away, day, there’s a chance we’ll get a go on the theory. As a part of the glancing and my PhD, my supervisor took in this fact, moved to a ‘teaching-only’ contract. Most harpoon. Our purpose is to be foolishly inadequate Tutor Development Program rolled it around in his mouth like whisky, academics, and the university, saw this as idealistic, and, crucially, cheap. (what passes for induction and training swallowed it, and murmured: “It’s a shame, a demotion. for new tutors, of which only two hours really—I wish I’d told you not to.” How cheap? Well, if I have a class of is compulsory), this creature was wheeled The whole process was designed, partly, twenty-five students, and each one gives in front of us to talk about marking. “Why’s that?” to cut out the ‘dead wood’—a phrase me five dollars, I make more than the After gushing, briefly, about ‘diversity’ someone in charge unfortunately used university pays me for my first tutorial and ‘constructive alignment’, this person “Well,” said my supervisor, “professionally, in an email—and, in doing so, make an (it costs more because I’m allowed some gave us the following advice about our it was probably a waste of your time. You example to inspire the others. It might preparation time). For every tutorial after paltry time allowances for marking: “I certainly shouldn’t do it again.” surprise the undergrads in the audience to that, I make less—a class of 18 or so would only bother to read the introduction and know that the real business of the academic more than cover it. If you’ve done the conclusion of an essay when I mark it; this It turns out that, as much as Spence and is to research—teaching, like oxygen, is maths and think this is good money, you’ve is more than enough to give you a sense his various sub-Spences make noises just a by-product of the photosynthetic done exactly what I did—you’ve been a of it.” And, just as the children would about ‘excellence in teaching’, and process of converting research into money. fool. Included in this payment is an hour have, we attacked. How was it possible, ‘rewarding thought-leader-inspiring- of consultation each week and all marking several of us demanded, to get a sense of creativeateers’, the truth is that they, and Many grants allow academics to essentially except exams. Worse, even though we’re a student’s potential without engaging more than a few senior academics think outsource their teaching responsibilities to technically supposed to be paid more for closely with their work? How could we, it’s a waste of any serious academic’s time. cheap labour so they can focus on research, marking if we have more students, our pay as tutors, abuse our positions, or worse, So much so, in fact, that I’ve heard a few produce books, and then scan the horizon is calculated by the number of tutorials we treat what we did cynically? We emerged, younger members of staff saying they for the next grant-whale, and so begin the take, rather than how many assignments twenty minutes later, victorious—new deliberately downplayed their teaching cycle again. Like most outsourcing, this we actually mark. If my colleague has four tutors fired with conviction—while our experience in interviews—they were to means cheapening the labour and cutting tutorials but fewer students, he or she still interlocutor laughed ruefully. None of let nothing as frivolous as undergraduates corners with the product. (Want proof? gets paid more than I do for doing less us fully understood why the Education stand in the way of their brutally efficient Feast your eyes on the HR department— work. academic laughed at us; we put it down hunting, harpooning, and rendering down the latest casualty in the university’s war to nerves, or just wounded pride. We of research grants to make the university for/on efficiency). And this is where PhD Not included in this is answering student certainly never twigged to the fact that money and build its prestige. students like me come in. You can hire a emails (how many times have you emailed our moral stand was exactly what the boatload of me for the cost of one Barry your tutor this semester?), reading the university relied upon. Like a flock of The best way to prove this is to recall the Spurr—and, as a bonus, we’re either not required texts, attending or listening to Victorian brides on their wedding day, we staff cuts a few years back when we lost a a racist, or savvy enough to confine our the lectures, attending markers meetings, were young, pure, zealous, and completely number of brilliant teachers to an utterly racism to non-organisational email, and just how demanding teaching work unaware that we were about to be fucked. What Your Money Buys Them

Alexi Polden wants better value.

ur University lays it on thick, should be directed towards what students SUSF a whopping $104. seducing potential marks with “the want most. In reality, the committee is Obest student experience in Australia”. student in name only. It is overseen by Unsurprisingly, much of SUSF’s University suits, and both the USU and focus is its elite athletes program, What they don’t tell you (but should Sydney Uni Sport and Fitness (SUSF) ostensibly a scheme to give USyd really be obvious) is that you’re the one send non-student corporate staff. students a pedestal from which to leap to who foots the bill. There’s no way much the highest possible levels in sports. of our student life could function without In 2014 full time students paid $281 in their gym fees subsidised, SUSF’s facilities the subsidy of the Student Services and SSAF, raising a total of $12,970,000, $2 There are only a few problems. First, are unaffordable, you’re better off going to Amenities Fee (SSAF) which students million of which was allocated to a capital SUSF doesn’t just sponsor USyd students, the gym at Vic Park pool. pay every semester. Generally, I’m pretty sinking fund, the rest was divided between something even they forget; in 2013 they happy to pay. student organisations. Of your $281 mis-identified one of their star athletes as Of course, none of that matters for dollars, the SRC got $39, SUPRA $29, the a Sydney student in a press release. University marketing. The SSAF The allocation of the SSAF fee is negotiated Cumberland Student Guild $18, Student allocation is being renegotiated—it’s your by a “student consultative committee” and Support Services $8, the USU $83 and Second, for most students who don’t have money, you should get some benefit.

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7 perspective

Is Your Heart in the Right Place?

Will Edwards defends the many colours of the political rainbow.

have several friends who call queer right-wing view on said conflict, would Liberals “traitors”. I’ve done it myself— strong political messages agitating against Ijokingly, I think. their deeply-held beliefs make them feel less comfortable in what is supposedly But how does a queer person betray the their safespace? Is a safespace for all queer community by being a Liberal? The most students an appropriate venue for partisan obvious answer would be to suggest activism that not all queer students Liberal policies are anti-queer, a suggestion support? Greens and Labors would “Hear, hear”, Liberals would robustly deny, and Family Greens voters who call queer Labor voters or asked “but how could someone like you These are questions I don’t have answers Firsts would laugh at. traitors, nor any further left activists who think that?” to. Yet it seems the main reason left-wing call Greens voters traitors. The difference queers think behaviours which alienate Yet in some areas, Labor and Liberal between a traitor and a person with This assumption, as a form of stereotyping, right-wing queers are acceptable is because policies aren’t so dissimilar, such that, by different opinion seems to lie where, in is irritating to say the very least. But more of the assumed queer-left relationship. the same token, someone further left than popular political discourse, it so often does: importantly, the behaviours resulting from “Either everyone in the community the ALP couldn’t suggest a queer Labor the left-wing/right-wing demarcation. it are arguably pernicious. already thinks the way I do, or they should is also a traitor. And it isn’t hard to find anyway.” people still further left to decry Greens It’s commonly assumed that queer people Seated in the University of Sydney queer-related policies. Defined by party generally are—or should be—left-wing. Union’s Queerspace, I notice a series of Queer leaders, coordinators, officers, et al. affiliation, treason seems weakly relative. And while some readers may be tempted posters decrying aspects of the Israeli- undeniably have a duty to promote the to retort that everyone should be left-wing, Palestinian Conflict. I agree with them. wellbeing of queer students. But is their I don’t think it’s the brand which prompts non-queer people who profess right-wing Then I wonder how I would feel if I didn’t. duty to all queer students, or just to those the charge though. I don’t know any preferences generally aren’t called traitors, If one took what is usually regarded as the who agree with them?

If it Hurts, See Someone

Anonymous writes about overcoming female sexual dysfunction.

hen most women try to have sex with a matching ovary design. She told After eight months of agony and I know for a fact I would not have felt with a guy for the first time, their me that each of my defects were fixable. awkwardness, I finally feel absolutely obligated to just ‘deal with it’ if I had hymenW stretches. Mine tore into several A hymenectomy could remove the scar safe and comfortable with my current known there was another possibility. But pieces and formed scar tissue. On top tissue remnants of my shattered hymen, boyfriend. I am certain he won’t hurt me or my entire sexual life had been pain, and of that, my first time was so awkward and a Fenton’s procedure could remove push me beyond my limits, and I can now without a comparative, how could I make that I ended up forming a congenital the tiny piece of excess skin. I had both stay calm enough, and consciously relax a choice with any integrity? defect—a small span of skin across the procedures done. my muscles enough, to have sex without base of my vagina—that would rip every pain. But it has to be regular. If not, I lose Now that I know what I was missing, I time I subsequently had sex. This wasn’t I couldn’t have sex for eight weeks my confidence, my muscles seize up and I am deeply angry that it took me so long discomfort, it was excruciating. after surgery, and my boyfriend was have to start from scratch. to seek treatment. I am angry I never said conspicuously absent during those weeks. no, and that my silence apparently always The two friends I talked to about the pain We had an ill-timed, but necessary, break I keep on asking myself why I consented meant a wholehearted ‘yes’. I am angry, during sex told me that it was normal for up, the real tragedy of which was that I to sexual experiences, knowing that they and I am sad, because no one told me I it to hurt at the start. So I continued to didn’t have anyone I knew or trusted to try were going to be agonizing. I would could do anything about my situation. have sex regularly even though the pain sex with after I healed. often find myself bleeding after sex, didn’t go away. I never actively went to If you ever have pain during sex, go to the the doctor. Partly because I didn’t want “I keep on asking myself why I consented to sexual doctor and don’t settle for the first medical to discuss sex with a relative stranger, but experiences, knowing that they were going to be agonizing” opinion you hear. And to be honest? If mainly because I assumed that the pain all of those medical experts fail, the best was permanent, or at least that there was While the procedures went well, fear with no explanation. Even wearing jeans treatment you can have is a partner who nothing I could do about it. wasn’t so easily excised. Even though the exacerbated a constant post-sex pain, and you can speak to, who listens, who wipes obstructions weren’t there anymore, I still I’d wince whenever I sat down. But I never your tears away, and adopts your burdens I didn’t realise that what was happening expected pain. This meant that when I said no. as their own. to me was unusual until I went to a GP tried to have sex, my muscles tightened up, for a routine pap smear in early 2014, causing pain—a self-fulfilling prophecy. I did feel some pleasure in tandem with If you have to maintain the façade of being over a year after I lost my virginity, and the pain, but that wasn’t it. I said yes in a perfect woman attached to a flawless, screamed and cried throughout the entire I was referred to a sex therapist, whose the past because I didn’t want to be a perpetually ready vagina in order for your thing. I paid my bill at reception with a solution was to make me insert a sequence disappointment, I didn’t want to be a bad partner to love you, he or she is not worth tear stained, red face. of glass, penis-shaped cylinders in front of girlfriend and I didn’t want to be dumped. it. her. Maybe sex therapists are supposed to I thought that this was what sex was, and Pap smears are not supposed to hurt at all. make people feel more open, but I’ve never so I should get used to it, because men felt more discomfort or shame in my life. don’t love frigid women, and I didn’t want My GP referred me to a gynaecologist, Predictably, I couldn’t get past number to be alone. who wore a necklace and earring set three.

8 perspective Loud People Suck A Beginner’s Guide to Escorts If not one of Sydney’s finest, Lyra Talise is certainly one of Sydney’s...finer... Mary Ward has had her hand up for fifteen minutes. o you’ve sat down either sober or tipsy, and found yourself looking at a particular booty (or pair of breasts, or legs). She could be offering erotic massage for $100, or be a celebrity pornstar who’ll lighten your load by up to $10 000 for a wild night. Either way, n every one of my classes this semester, Syou’re thinking it might be worth a shot. So here’s a play-by-play, step-by-step approach that won’t get you ignored or blacklisted, and there is a free 10 marks for someone that will get you the night (or 15 minutes) you’re after. Iwho has English as their first language, can use a thesaurus, and has no problem 1. Don’t even think about asking for a “Lol fuck off.” late for a 30 minute booking. I’d been on throwing their peers under the academic discount. time; and he hadn’t seen me because he assessment bus. 3. Be specific and reasonable. hadn’t been bothered to get out of the car. Are you going to ask a plumber for a I’d like to think that was the most In one class, this figure creeps up to discount on listed prices? Would you look If you are absolutely not going to hire a unfriendly orgasm he’d ever received. 20 marks, meaning that the difference at a menu, call over the waitress, and say girl who doesn’t do anal, specify that at between a student receiving a low-range “look babe, I’m sure you can be generous”? the beginning. I once had one gentleman 7. Human beings, not sex toys. credit and a high-range distinction can Most of us offer reductions for bookings (debatable) confirm a time and place— depend upon whether they are good at over an hour (two hours with me saves and actually give me his address—before Most escorts stipulate that payment is for being a loud sadist. you $100, for instance). If you’re after asking about unprotected oral, which I time and companionship. That half hour something unusual—a whole weekend, or don’t offer. After trying in vain to argue or hour rate covers the time you spend in Many faculties use tutorial marks to overnights—then maybe, maybe you can me around, he cancelled the booking an their company—from when they arrive to determine a small, but not insignificant discuss it. hour before we were due to meet. when they leave. slice of a student’s overall grade. Faculty policies that outline the amount to be We genuinely don’t have the time to deal Speaking of—if she says no, don’t be pushy, A client and I once had a lovely forty five allocated vary, as do the methods by which with your stinginess. especially when it’s a safety ‘no’. We don’t minute chat on the couch, before finally they are determined. care if you say you’re clean. Chances are moving things into the bedroom. Fifteen 2. She’s a professional. Treat her like one. if we’ve given in, you’ve probably swayed minutes later, I informed him that time Some faculties see them as an opportunity other girls before. Unprotected oral is far was up. to integrate group work into the course, “23M 7 inch 1hr, u do anal?” more dangerous to us than it is to you, and or to split the subject matter between “hello. let me know if you are free this pushing on that when you would never go He actually said “I thought it only counted students so that each develops an area morning” for unprotected sex just reflects a lack of when we were having sex.” of speciality. But, in some faculties (read: respect for the girl’s body. Arts), these marks often seem to be based “Hi Lyra. I like your profile and web page. Once I had explained the basic principle purely on an individual student’s ~vibe~. Thanks for putting in the effort, it certainly No means no. Hard limits are hard limits. of escorting—payment is for time, not got my attention. About me, I’m 5’10”, 48 Pushing us makes us feel unsafe and will sex acts—he sighed. “Well, at least I’ve The trouble with this is that not all ~vibes~ y.o. with a slim athletic build, not your give you an awkward time with a worker learned my lesson, I won’t waste time are equal. typical 50y.o. lol. I live in the CBD area who is clearly uncomfortable. We’re talking next time.” and can host. I’d like to arrange something already taking safety risks as it is. The student who did the required reading tomorrow evening or one night next week. I told him that a good proportion of my but would rather type their questions out I look forward to your reply.” 4. Read her goddamned info. clients see me for the talking. He laughed in an email before class is deemed to have like I’d told him a joke. a less engaged ~vibe~ than the student “HI I WOULD LOVE TO It might be a profile on an escorting site. with the Wikipedia page open on their GANGBANG YOU HARD BABE It might be a Locanto ad. It might be a I definitely didn’t, very briefly, wonder if MacBook screen, sticking their hand up ANY TIME I WOULD LOVE TO fully-fledged website. Read the important he’d take me stepping on his foot with a as soon as the tutor pauses for breath and CUM ALL OVER YOUR BODY” details, wherever they are. Rates and stiletto as a joke. proceeding to talk until five-to. services are asked about the most, which One of these messages is not the others; is stupid because they’re generally listed Other common tips: The student who feels embarrassed when because one treats me like a professional really clearly. speaking in a second language gives off a offering services, and also like a human • Ask before kissing. Some girls don’t allow ~vibe~ which is not as impressive as the being. The others assume that I a) care 5. Give her advance notice. mouth-to-mouth contact full stop. Some one emitted by the kid who approaches about penis lengths, b) am awake at 6am are alright with light kissing, and others each class with the same disregard for the and immediately raring to go, or c) am As much as you can—the more the better. offer ‘passionate French kissing’. Respect opinions of others as he demonstrated in constantly in search of capitalised group I had a month’s notice once, and it was preferences—kissing is intimate in a very his Year 11 GPS debating grand final. sex. Because I’m a professional, I did fantastic! Whereas I don’t even bother different way from sex, and there are quite respond to all of those messages. Because with the 10pm messages reading “are you a few workers who use it to differentiate Obviously, there’s merit in being able I’m also a human being, my replies were free tonight?” Chances are that even if I between work and relationships. to speak in front of a group. I am not as follows: am, I’m hardly in the mood for impromptu disputing that verbal communication “No.” sober sex with a drunk person. • Outcall means she doesn’t host. Assume no is important. However, by making the hosting, unless incall is actually listed. tutorial experience assessable from Week “Sorry, I do require more than an hour’s 6. Treat your appointment like a doctor’s One, these skills can’t be developed or notice for a booking!” appointment. • No cars. Seriously. The amount of people eased into. who think that a car is reasonable for “Hi there. Thank you very much for your Simply put, don’t be late. This is her time— anything is astounding. Either your place, It is game faces from the get go. One kind words! I’m glad you enjoyed my and more importantly, you’re paying for it. hers, or a hotel. There are by-the-hour hotels student’s lost airtime is another’s gain. profile. Did you have a preferred time for If you’ve made an hour booking and show in the CBD and Parramatta from as little And, unfortunately, the loudest shock jock tomorrow? I’ll be able to reach Parramatta up 20 minutes late, don’t even think about as $50. is always going to win the ratings. by around 8pm if that is suitable. Regards, asking to just pay for 40 minutes. A client Lyra.” once asked if he could shave $50 off my rate, when he showed up fifteen minutes

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Art Making Machine Elise Galati speaks to social roboticist Mari Velonaki on the intersection between creative art and practical science.

t’s no secret that there’s a rivalry among Funded by the Australian Research assist and rehabilitate patients. such as these that validate her passion for students of the Arts and the Sciences. Council, Fish-Bird involved two self- her field. IIf you’re in the former category, you’re propelled wheelchairs that ‘assess’ viewer “We realised the importance of having a probably used to jibes about your minimal behaviour. Using their built-in printers, dedicated space in which you deal with “You know, autistic kids talk for the first contact hours, your ‘irrelevant’ subjects, and the chairs communicate with each and incorporate cultural, social issues time by interacting and working with your easy-as-pie lifestyle. If you’re in that robot. It didn’t replace the the latter, then you’ve probably ranted therapist. The therapist was there. about your weekly incarceration in the But what robots are very good lab or the difficulty of your degree at at is they repeat and they repeat least once. If you’re in both… well, you and they repeat their behaviour belong everywhere and nowhere. ’til the cows come home. I can’t do it. The best therapist can’t do People are competitive. I get it. it. But the therapist is there and monitors and then the kids can As somebody who chose the arts, take that home and continue though, it can become tiring to defend with their families and then come my work ethic and job prospects to back. Again, it’s a fantastic and friends in science and engineering very successful example for me.” who (often affectionately, sometimes self-righteously) click their tongues Like most of the science at my ‘naivety’. Even so, what I’ve industries, social robotics remains come to realise during my time in a male-dominated field. Yet while these hallowed halls (and many Velonaki would love to see more existential crises later) is that pitting women in her line of work, she the humanities and sciences against feels she has never suffered for each other is a waste of time. her gender, telling me it is less important than passion. In the ‘real world’, why can’t you have both? Science and the arts “I believe in equality, but I also inform, complement and enrich one believe women have a different another. They are the overlap in the Venn other and with their audience through in designing robots,” she told me. These set of abilities that combine with diagram of human achievement and, after movement and text, ejecting quasi-poetic robots are “embedded or implemented men’s to give us a better set of abilities meeting with artist-cum-roboticist Mari words of wisdom. within social structures, so they live altogether. You arrive at a healthier, more Velonaki, it became even clearer that a in society. They don’t replace a human innovative, more holistic understanding. multidisciplinary approach to learning Since Fish-Bird, Velonaki has been a presence—they’re complementary to what I’m not interested in people trying to be and life is the most fruitful kind. strong advocate for fusing the arts and humans try to do.” pseudoscientific, but in people being who sciences. She’s internationally successful, they are, developing an expertise in what Velonaki is a leader in the new and rapidly taking her work to Tokyo, London, To illustrate this point, Velonaki draws on they do and contributing from that angle. growing field of ‘social robotics’, the study Madrid and more, and has been placed the physical strain nurses are subjected to We don’t need to replicate behaviours and of the development of robots for use in on Robohub’s annual list of “25 Women when moving incapacitated patients from knowledge; we just need fresh ideas to everyday life. Researchers examine the in Robotics You Need to Know About”. one area of the hospital to another. expand our research into this field from interaction between humans and robots She sees value in an eclectic mix of people, different avenues. If this is what you want and the integration of robots into social especially when it comes to the new and “There are some jobs that a robot should to do, there’s room for everyone.” spaces—hospitals, galleries, nursing burgeoning field of social robotics. take over that are bad for people … Instead homes, museums, airports and domestic of lifting you and destroying their back, When considering the future of her field, environments. “Social robotics is a new discipline and, by [the nurse] can hold your hand, while the Velonaki is brimming with enthusiasm. definition, it should be multidisciplinary. system is lifting you, and talk to you and It’s a strange job for someone who started I mean humanities, social sciences, explain to you what’s going to happen “It’s incredible. It’s interesting. I feel like out as a professional artist. Previously, psychology, ethics, visual anthropology. when you go and see your doctor, what’s we’re mainstream now so I’m not the Velonaki created interactive installation You need many voices. People think about going to be the next procedure, the next exotic artist anymore, which is good and art projects. Her foray into robotics only robotics and think engineers. You don’t step. I don’t believe in replacement. I really bad. But it’s wonderful because there are came in 2003 when the technological have to be an engineer. You can be all sorts believe the future is enhancement in a way all these interesting people and interesting requirements for one particular project left of things and work in social robotics.” that lets humans do what they do best.” projects all around the world and that’s her feeling out of her depth. a good sign. Every year there are new For the last 9 years, Velonaki and her These notions of co-existence and names and the conferences become better “It wasn’t a conscious decision to move colleagues at UNSW’s Creative Centre collaboration permeate the work of because there are more disciplines and the into robotics, but in order to realise my for Robotics (which she co-founded) many social robotics researchers. At questions become harder and that’s a good Fish-Bird Project, I understood early on have worked to explore the uses of robots the University of Hertfordshire, for thing.” that I needed a serious collaboration with beyond the industrial and to integrate example, a humanoid robot (KASPAR) people [at Sydney University’s Australian them as seamlessly as possible into areas was developed to help autistic children Centre for Field Robotics] with whom I such as hospitals, where they might, under communicate and interact with adults and could realise it together,” she said. the supervision of nurses and doctors, other children. For Velonaki, it is projects 10 arts & culture

Hollywood’s Invisible People Harry Welsh investigates the racism underlying the mechanics of film.

eep within the mechanics of the modify their colour cards after complaints In the celluloid age, photochemical explaining to Colorlines, “When you film industry is a component so from advertising companies, who said they processing was the standard process to underexpose [dark brown skin tones], Dimplicitly lined with racist undertones couldn’t properly photograph chocolate colour grade the images of your film. In they pop and resonate and shine in a that it goes unnoticed. The problem is and wood furniture. the 1990s, certain filmmakers pushed particular way that you’re not going to see rooted within film stock, the medium used the boundaries of digital colour editing, when a face is lit in a conventional way.” to record analog motion pictures, which So, unfortunately for black actors, light and inspired the creation of the digital Young is enthused by the art of picking up can’t physically keep both light and dark meter standards were determined by intermediate phase—in which colour complexities of dark, subtle skin, which he skinned actors within the same frame. reference to paler skin tones. Rather correction became possible. notes is ignored by traditional filmmaking; than modifying the standards of the i.e. the standard Hollywood technologies It’s coated with a light absorbing gel technology, this encouraged film-makers Colour correction is a process where and methods. Speaking to Indiewire, emulsion on both sides that responds to to find alternative means to light black the colour of the light in a scene can be cinematographer Cybel Martin, like the image captured by the lens. The image bodies on screen. altered. In cinematography, light colour Young, is inspired by this unrecognised art: itself is a light reflection, which can be is measured on a scale of temperature, “every shade and hue offers its own unique over exposed or under lit if the scene is not which is changed by the use of gels and challenges and glorious opportunities for filmed correctly. filters in the correction stage. This aids the the cinematographer to create art.” illumination of dark skin, as more subtle Filmmakers use light meters to control hues of the skin tone can be rendered on the exposure and aperture of an image, screen. Yet ultimately the temperature of playing a major role in perfecting light an image’s colours must be brought to a levels. According to photographer Adam matching level, so dark skin tones may be Broomberg, the meters are adjusted to let reduced to the light temperature of lighter more light in when filming darker skin, skin depending on the choice of the editor. as it absorbs 42% more light than white skin. But if more light is let in for the black actor, the white actor will become These young filmmakers share a passion for blindingly white. In conversation with the cinematography of complex dark skin, The Guardian, Broomberg reflects on the This often resulted in an uncomfortable which has, by and large, been ignored by use of old Polaroid IP-2 cameras, “if you and humiliating time for dark skinned the film industry. The growing application exposed film for a white kid, the black actors. Creative Director at Parallel and appreciation of digital filmmaking kid sitting next to him would be rendered Film Collective Montre, Aza Missouri separates contemporary ideologies from invisible except for the whites of his eyes remembers the teachings of one of her traditional, biased celluloid perspectives. and teeth”. instructors: “if you found yourself in the As noted by Ann Hornday from The ‘unfortunate situation’ of shooting on the Washington Post, “The fact that audiences These racially coded technologies are ‘Dark Continent,’ and if you’re shooting are seeing such a varied, nuanced spectrum indicative of the time in which they were dark-skinned people, then you should rub of black faces isn’t just a matter of poetics, created, which for light meters was around Vaseline on their skin in order to reflect Alternative to the editing phase, digital but politics—and the advent of digital the 1930s. However, an explicitly racial light.” film cameras offer dynamic variations in filmmaking.” Despite the achievements agenda was first manifested in the 1950s the colours they pick up, regardless of of digital technology, the inherently with the introduction of ‘Shirley Cards’. Following the premiere of his film 12 the strong lighting set up on the scene. racist elements of cinematography are Years A Slave in Toronto, Steve McQueen Cameras such as the Red One possess a disturbing reminder of whitewashed These cards depicted an image of a porcelain remembers his first experience with this enhanced sensitivity controls that remove Hollywood, silent on the issue until a white model, surrounded by colourful inequality: “…growing up and seeing the need for professional film lights to solution is created by other means. pillows in a white studio, arranged as a Sidney Poitier sweating next to Rod balance out black and white. point of reference for photographers and Steiger in In the Heat of the Night, and filmmakers to set light meters. They were obviously it’s very hot in the South, but Cinematographer Daniel Patterson notes first introduced by Kodak, whose film also he was sweating because he had in The Washington Post, “I just changed was once deemed ‘racist’ by French film tons of light thrown on him, because the the wattage of the bulb, used a dimmer, pioneer Jean Luc Godard when filming film stock wasn’t sensitive enough for and I didn’t have to use any film lights… in Mozambique. Kodak only decided to black skin.” Much of the development of The camera was able to hold both of them celluloid film stock occurred in America during the scene without any issues… off the back of slave liberation, within the That kind of blew me away.” tense climate of racism and inequality at the time. This resulted in technologies that Digital filmmaking appears more popular favour the fairer skin, and filmmakers have with younger filmmakers, as they are less long ignored the problem within their attached to the traditions of the celluloid instruments and sought to alter the skin era and more open to experimentation. of their actors. Cinematographers like Bradford Young have a desire to break conventions, 11 arts & culture

More to it than Shifting Furniture: SUDS’ The Removalists Charlie O’Grady watched some men punch each other for a bit

do not particularly enjoy Williamson. Performances are, in many places, mediocre. Several is committed to realising their effects honestly, the I don’t think it is productive or appropriate now to actors fall down trying to play characters far older or result is insulting for anyone who has ever experienced I“explore” cis-heteromasculinity as it affects the lives more malicious than they are, and thus losing much of them. What’s more, the play’s more violent scenes were of cis men—it has been done, there are more pressing their complexity of emotion. The entrance of Hannah bookended—even punctuated by—cheap gags. While issues to explore. That said, I believe there can be value Cox as Kate is a breath of fresh air and her performance the performance of Reuben Ward as the single-minded in restaging highly contextual works and demonstrating remains compelling and moving throughout. Saro removalist Rob is, in isolation, hilarious and well done, their continued relevance—I just don’t think it is done Lusty-Cavallari’s performance in the physically seeing humour shoe-horned into moments that should well here. demanding role of the abuser-become-abused Kenny is have been horrific was, rather than poignant, galling. I in moments disturbing and highly affective and deserves didn’t want to be laughing, and I had the impression of The Removalists is a piece that, though dated, still manages commendation. an audience surprised, maybe relieved, to find themselves relevance, as everything that happens in it still happens doing so. It is hard, at points, to determine whether the now. Domestic abuse is still a frighteningly common This production takes a lacklustre approach to many of its show itself or the characters were being flippant, but this and despicably under-exposed issue, police brutality still core issues. Despite the heavy focus on domestic violence, flippancy is nonetheless without real effect. tarnishes our justice system, and patriarchy is still the the nuance in physically and emotionally abusive situations worst thing ever. But this production managed to make is never fully realised between Fiona (Sophie Armbrister) As someone who is terrified by heteromasculinity at the it feel endlessly archaic. “Look”, it seemed to say, “look at and Kenny (Saro Lusty-Cavallari). Abuse and trauma best of times—in tutorials, on the train, on the street—I this thing that doesn’t happen anymore. Isn’t it funny that are fraught and complicated, and unless a creative team never once felt the horror of that toxicity fully articulated men used to be like this?” in The Removalists. I saw a washed out and weak version of what toxic masculinity Robert Boddington’s production is staged can do, a version that made vague interestingly. The first 35 to 40 minutes attempts to critique or deconstruct, but occur on a smaller stage in what is usually could never manage it as the stakes were the backstage area of the Cellar. This ridiculously low. As much as the violence claustrophobic space would have been of the play was viscerally upsetting, it was fantastically compelling as the office of meaningless without a clear message. Sergeant Simmonds had the actors in the scene been able to maintain tension To create spectacle from deeply troubling throughout the too-slow opening. The issues like those central to The Removalists second stage is equally cramped for the requires you to be saying something, audience, with the bonus of directly meaning something. If you come after aligned seating which leaves you with a patriarchy, if you come after domestic great view of the person sitting in front violence, you commit and do it really, of you. That said, the space is impressively really well. Anything else is farcical, and constructed as a naturalistic and immersive anything else does nothing to fix the home space, leaving the audience feeling problem. as if they too occupy this world.

REVIEWS IN BRIEF Thinking about last year’s revue season

Being mean

Crusty breadrolls

Deregulation

Nostalgia

12 arts & culture All About Women Sophie Gallagher attended the All About Women festival, where she spoke to Celeste Liddle and Clementine Ford.

t the All About Women festival, I last weekend, was a place where women sure that we’re hearing from women whose ensure greater inclusivity and acceptance. found myself in a room with Roxane could get together and discuss everything ideas are important, but also hearing about Gay,A Clementine Ford, Anita Sarkeesian, that mattered to them in 2015. From topics that matter to the women that make Despite this, Mossop hoped that audience Celeste Liddle, Germaine Greer and Tara becoming ‘bad feminists’, to embracing up our audiences.” members could still have a rich experience, Moss. Women like Rosie Batty, Annabel intersectionality, this year’s festival reached and use the knowledge they learnt. “We Crabb, Jane Caro and Judith Lucy were a more radical and honest point than it That said, the complete lack of trans can’t solve all the problems of the world. huddled around me, discussing the had in the past. and non-binary female speakers was What we’re hoping to do is give women problems and solutions of every issue from disappointing, and an error that Mossop tools to think about important issues, domestic violence to women in comedy. I spoke to festival curator Ann Mossop, hopes to rectify in the future, “ensuring share the insights of other people and take To say this was my feminist dream world who said the event was a place where the important issues are addressed over time”. that into their own lives.” is an understatement. issues facing women could have a voice. The festival was a success, but its gaping “All About Women is a chance for us to holes are a broader representation of the The festival, held at the Opera House really put women centre stage, and make effort feminism still needs to make to

Celeste Liddle & Clementine Ford on How To Be a Feminist Insights from the festival

Celeste Liddle is an Arrernte Australian. A No movement is going to be successful disadvantage certain groups. “It’s not enough to feel personally freelance writer and unionist, she blogs per- without looking after the least powerful, empowered or be personally successful sonally at Rantings of an Aboriginal Fem- so there’s no point in a revolution that SG: Domestic violence is an issue you’ve within the oppressive framework of the inist. preferences the exact same white male brought into the public discourse through current system. Even if an individual voices. Intersectionality should be cen- your writing. What needs to happen to woman can make patriarchy work for her, SG: What are the biggest issues facing tral for everyone’s politics—if we’re not affect change and create more awareness? it’s still a losing game for the rest of the feminism today? looking after those who need the most women on the planet. ...Feminism is not assistance we’re just going to reinforce the CF: One of the biggest things we can do about striving for perfection, it’s about CL: Individualist feminism versus col- same power structures over and over again is fund women’s health services around striving for justice.” lectivist feminism—so the fight between no matter what revolution it achieves. the country. They already don’t get a huge – Anita Sarkeesian individual empowerment and feminism amount of funding and they have to bat- as a movement about the current social Clementine Ford is a freelance writer and tle for their funding every year. The people “Feminism has allowed me to believe structures that rule our lives. I think that, broadcaster who writes on feminism and pop who are doing the actual work for gender that my voice matters. Even though it’s on one hand, I have a lot of admiration for culture. equality need to be given more money and just one voice, it’s a good place to start celebrities who get out there and proclaim more access to public spaces to share their in creating change. It has allowed me to their feminism. But on the other hand, it SG: What do you believe are the biggest message. We need to start taking it seri- believe that I can exist in this world and allows the dialogue to shift to an individu- issues facing women today? ously and stop treating it as an issue where protect my bodily autonomy, even when al level, which is not what it’s about; femi- only a handful of men will ever be impli- it has been contradicted so many times by nism is meant to be about empowering the CF: Silence, continued sexual oppres- cated. It’s not just about whether you’ve the ways other people have treated me.” least powerful in society and helping the sion, reproductive health care. I think the raised a hand to hit a woman, it’s about – Roxane Gay entire world to become a more equitable two biggest issues for me are economic the underlying foundations of sexist at- place. freedom and bodily autonomy. Bodi- titudes and belief systems. So what really ly autonomy can be whether or not you needs to be cut off at the root is the very SG: Do you think there is a divide be- choose to reproduce, whether or not you fundamentals of sexist ideas. Sexist jokes tween Indigenous and white feminism? identify your body as woman even if oth- and attitudes, even if they are trickling, re- ers don’t—I think that allowing women inforce the idea that women are less. If the CL: The way I see it, through the process to make choices that men are entitled to weight of a single sexist joke is a drop of of colonisation, Aboriginal women have make is a huge part of feminism. But one water, enough drops of wa- to grapple with every single thing that of the big challenges is trying to figure out ter will still fill an ocean. any other woman would—so everything how we dismantle the current structures from oppressive beauty structures, to rep- of power and recreate something better, SG: What is feminism resentation in media—but we’re doing it because we can’t actually achieve equality to you? alongside the politics of being displaced within the structures we’re based in cur- people in our own country. There’s that rently. They’re invariably predisposed to CF: A lifesaver. mix between fighting patriarchy within our own communities and trying to state that we’re diverse people, versus actually fighting for a voice in a broader move- ment. It’s an incredibly difficult thing. I see the politics of bodily sovereignty and land sovereignty running parallel because there’s no other way that I can actually en- visage it. To liberate every woman in this country, from my limited perspective, you have to actually liberate Indigenous wom- en, because they’re the most trampled.

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Content Warning: this article contains young age. Growing up in a violent house, experiences of domestic violence. he mirrored his father’s behaviour. “He would get the same look in his eyes as my The students I interviewed for this article dad had when he was coming off a high. It share two things in common: they are all said he was capable of killing,” she says. women, and they have all endured long- term abuse, social stigma, and shame from Her brother never ‘seriously’ injured people they loved. Jocelyn; only occasionally spitting vodka in her face, ripping off fingernails, and I suppose if I were to try and make sense throwing her into a door; like his dad, he of it all, these are the 1 in 3 women across preferred their mum as his punching bag. all socio-economic backgrounds who When Jocelyn was away at a sleepover, he tolerate, on average, 35 assaults before threw their mother on the bonnet of her telling someone about it. They are an car and strangled her after a weekend- extension of the 950,000 young Australian long bender. Jocelyn never went to another women who reported in 2005 that they sleepover again. had been sexually assaulted before the age of 15; of the one in four children who As Jocelyn got older, her father started witnessed violence against their mothers torturing her with sexual, suggestive or carers; the 22% of women under 20 behaviour—tugging at her shorts, pulling who have experienced dating violence. down a sleeve, snapping a bra strap—a nauseating reminder that he owned After a while, numbers get dull and stop her. She developed severe depression, meaning anything. It isn’t fair, either, generalised anxiety disorder, and post- or even easy, to reduce a human life to a traumatic stress. She became suicidal and statistic. These are broader reflections of had to be hospitalised. the community we all live in. In Jocelyn’s case, there was no intervention, Look around on Eastern Avenue—pay and her mother never left their father— close attention to the women you walk past even when people found out what had been and observe their body language to see if up by her hair, punch her in the head and and cry for him to stop,” she recalls. happening. they’re limping. Count them in threes in she would collapse again, then repeat the your tute, and then guess which one gets process over and over. I was frozen. I don’t For a while this worked, but over the years, “I used to dream of the moment when people kicked, punched or slapped. Picture what know how long he did this for, maybe a small arguments between her parents would find out what was happening and happens the moment they leave campus minute, maybe ten. Then he grabbed her by escalated dramatically to a point where make it stop,” she says. “But when the truth and walk through the front door of their the hair and smashed her head against the fights became a life and death situation, did come to light, the response from family abusive home. wall.” - Jocelyn and Jocelyn would have to physically pull and friends was awful. One family member her father off her mum, at which point, he asked my mother and I, ‘What did you do Maybe then it becomes a bit more This wasn’t the first time Jocelyn, 21, found would turn around and hit her instead. to make him hit you?’ ” For a while, she relatable. herself trapped in a sickening nightmare. resented her mother for not protecting her, From a young age, her father and brother To this day, Jocelyn remembers the way but in these moments, she became acutely As I spoke to these women about instigated physical, emotional and verbal her father looked at her when she tried to aware of the complexities underlying the their harrowing experiences one thing abuse. The victim was most often her intervene. “His eyes were ice-cold, robotic. agony of her family’s violence. became clear: these women had luckily, mother, but they would also regularly abuse It was as if I was just a dog in the way of his miraculously, and only barely survived. her, and each other. objective, which must have been to kill my “I can’t ever imagine the pain my mother There are many others who hadn’t, or mother,” she says. must have felt when my brother, her son, won’t. “A lot of people think of very stereotypical abused her,” she says. scenarios with people of certain “I got so tired. I was a weak 15-year-old backgrounds,” she says. “My father was girl against a grown man. When I couldn’t “How could she defend herself? How could white, middle class, multiple university stand anymore, he stepped over me and she call the police? How could she have her degrees.” began to kick my mum. All I could muster own child arrested? She never could. That’s was to crawl over and try and cover her the crippling thing about family violence. “I ran out of my room into the hallway. My “My instinct from the start was that my body with mine.” You love the people that want to hurt you.” dad was standing over my mum, who was mother needed protecting, and if my dad collapsed on the ground. He would lift her started assaulting her I would scream out Jocelyn’s brother used and sold drugs from a By sheer luck, Jocelyn’s situation stabilised

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when her family organically separated two women are responsible for maintaining In the first instances of physical abuse, her most have seen a GP, a counsellor, or a years ago—her brother moved out, and relationships leads to a blame-and-shame partner showed remorse. But being hit once therapist—sometimes it works, other her father found a new girlfriend to please culture. It’s why it’s still a grossly under- was a catalyst, and the violence got worse. times it backfires. himself. reported crime, with police estimating Nina would end up with bruises on her that they only get called out to 40-50% of face, black eyes, and a bleeding nose. She Natasha was fearful of getting in trouble Resuming normal life proved extremely domestic violence cases. would be thrown across the room, kicked for speaking her mind at university. difficult. On her worst days and nights, and kneed. “Realising that you are respected for your Jocelyn wakes up from nightmares in “I think we should turn it around and ask opinion and are going to be applauded for cold sweats, suffers panic attacks, and why men don’t leave if they’re hurting She silently waited for an apology, but it what you say, that just changed my whole questions whether she’ll ever be capable of people they care about,” says Laing. “We never came. self,” she reflects. a relationship. She doesn’t feel any stronger, tend to blame the victim, there’s very little but having seen the hate, rage, desperation, empathy for them.” “When I asked her one day if she felt guilty But Jocelyn, who sought help from a depression, weariness, control and freedom, for doing it, she laughed and replied ‘no’. therapist, was told she should try and meet it also fills her with determination: “I will A 2008 report prepared by the National She said I deserved exactly what I got and men at bars to overcome her depression. never be abused like this again. The cycle Council to Reduce Violence against she was in the right to do so.” When she was hospitalised, she contacted ends here.” Women and their Children recognised the University for special consideration that certain groups of women—including “I was even sexually assaulted once by and considered discontinuing her young women, children of domestic her,” Nina confesses. “These days, I am subjects—one staff member accused her violence victims, Aboriginal and Torres comfortable saying to myself, ‘yes, I have of “trying to hedge [her] bets and escape ‘Domestic violence’ didn’t exist 40 years Strait Islanders, women with disabilities, been raped by a woman’”. responsibility”. ago. The violent behaviour was always women from rural and remote areas, and there, but no-one spoke about it. LGBTI groups—are more vulnerable For Jennifer, being an international to experiencing violence than others. student meant she was denied much “When you think about thousands of years Many people find it hard to believe that Professor Laing tells me that more formal support. Her only options were of history and gender relations, 40 years is women are likely to abuse each other, but people report domestic violence in a past counselling on campus or insurance, a relatively short time,” Professor Lesley violence in gay and lesbian relationships relationship rather than a current one, neither of which she could afford. Laing, a former Director of the Education occurs at the same rate as in heterosexual which indicates that many victims have Centre Against Violence, explains. “But relationships. Escape from these situations managed to move on by seeking help from naming it and saying that it is common is can be even harder, as victims face friends and family without ever going to a good news.” the additional fear of being “outed” or formal service. subjected to homophobia. Whenever someone views women as This is a positive sign, but moving on is “My dad was really crafty, he would always objects to own or control, domestic never easy. hit the soles of our feet so no one could see violence lingers around the corner, waiting the bruises,” Jennifer recalls with a sense of to creep in. This attitude is more prevalent Firstly, leaving the relationship itself can be calm. She doesn’t meet my eyes. than one would assume—in 2013, Roy dangerous. “Because the partner is losing Morgan reported that the number of Nina was with her girlfriend for four years, control, leaving probably needs to be done When I meet her, she’s sporting a crisp, young men who believe a woman’s place and for three of those she endured emotional with support and safely,” says Laing. There tailored suit to match her equally crisp is in the home had increased from 6.5% manipulation, mental torture and physical are also good things that get left behind— paralegal position at a law firm. Like any to 11.6%. In NSW alone, women were abuse. children, financial independence, and other law student, she’s bright, articulate victims in more than two-thirds of DV attachment. and intelligent. related cases, with 78% of cases involving “I’ve never been hit by a man before, and I male offenders. never expected to be hit by a woman. And Laing notes that as the victim already There are no visible scars or bruises to here was this woman who was supposed to feels bad about how they’ve been treated, suggest that she and her younger brother “In a broader socio-cultural sense, it’s not love me,” she writes. the most helpful thing for friends and have for their entire lives been the objects of only male violence towards women, but family to do when approached is to show their father’s anger. overall it is a problem of male power over Nina describes her ex-girlfriend as a “classic ongoing concern rather than telling them women,” says Laing. “Domestic violence case of domestic violence”: she isolated to do ‘x-y-z’: “just let the person know that “[My friends] could see us limping… I isn’t just physical, it’s sexual, emotional—a her from friends and family, and if Nina you’re there for them, you’re not going to would peel back the sock and they’d say, ‘holy whole range of tactics which are about spoke to anyone, she was accused of being judge them, and will stick with them,” she shit, what happened to you, you should tell controlling the other person and flirtatious, or lying. The only way to remedy says. the teacher!’ but I knew that if I did that diminishing them.” the situation was to cut every single person my dad would blow up again, so I thought out of her life. Louise, one of the women I spoke to, that’s probably not a good idea,” she says. Heterosexual ideas about romantic agrees. “If all women want to do is relationships can also result in violent Knowing that Nina had suffered sexual laugh, let them laugh about it,” she says, Jennifer wasn’t just enduring physical pain; patterns going unnoticed. “For instance,” abuse as a teenager, her girlfriend would “because in the end, they’ve gone through she was forced to inflict it on her brother Laing points out, “a man texting a woman twist it around as her fault: “Every day such a huge betrayal of their trust and too: “My dad would make me hit him for nine times a day is seen as caring and she made me feel dirty and sickened by it to understanding … that you can’t tell them not doing his homework […] I’d say, ‘oh, he loving, but can actually be a warning sign the point where I considered ending my life how to deal with it.” hasn’t done one page of questions’, and he’d of controlling behaviour”. because I couldn’t deal with the feelings and ask, ‘how many questions is that, six? Six guilt”. While none of the women I spoke to times ten is what, 60? Alright, 60 lashes.’” Laing also comments that the idea that feel like they have resolved their trauma,

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The beatings didn’t stop when the family But that’s about it. The University has no semester she’s taking a break. “I was doing They moved into a separate, secure house moved to settle down in Sydney, but Jen- specific guidelines on how to deal with an Arts degree, I passed first semester, but I where Natasha’s younger sister finally told nifer found a way to escape her father’s students who experience domestic vio- struggle to stick to my meds. If I can’t sleep, her mother the extent of her sexual abuse. temper by living at college. She knew that lence, nor does it have a remit for investi- can’t concentrate, it’s torture,” she tells me. “Mum told him that he would never see us her brother would continue getting beaten gating or holding to account perpetrators again,” she says. at home. of domestic violence, encouraging victims Natasha suffers from acute depression, to seek assistance through the NSW Po- which arose from the intergenerational sex- “After, he went and dobbed himself in, and “One time I came home and he lifted up his lice or specialist services. ual and domestic abuse her father inflicted went to jail for six years.” shirt, and there were just red welts every- Those who are impacted can receive coun- on their entire family. “We don’t even refer where,” she recalls. “I always told him that selling support available through CAPS, to him as dad anymore. We just refer to him “You just think, all that time you could have he could stay with me, but he never took up and advocacy services from the SRC and as this fuckhead, because he wasn’t dad to stood up for yourself, this is a very weak the offer because he knew if he did that and SUPRA. Dr Renner and Paul O’Donohue us,” she says. person, but we were too young,” she says. went home he’d be in a lot more trouble.” explain that the counsellor assesses the impact of their experiences and, “if appro- Natasha remembers how he picked her up “Is he at school at the moment?” I ask. priate, will refer them to services such as by the shirt and threw her on the bed when dedicated domestic violence services, legal she was just six. She remembers how, in a I can’t help but wonder if the men reading “He was.” services, income maintenance and accom- frenzy, he beat her with a rope when she this article feel uncomfortable, or worry modation services.” was eight. She remembers how he chased that they have all been categorized as vi- “And what does he do now?” her down a dirt road with a cane when she olent or controlling. If this is the case, it The University is not compelled to pro- was 12. “I actually peed myself, I was so means the onus is shifting back on them “He’s dead.” actively ensure students’ welfare or raise afraid,” she recalls. to interrogate why they feel uncomforta- awareness about the issue. The onus is on ble. And rightfully so. They are the benefi- I don’t follow. Or maybe I’m hoping that students to seek out these services. “He’d be OK one day, but then he’d just ciaries of social scripts that justify violence I’ve misheard. change.” she says. “I remember just being as masculinity and fail to recognise female There are promising signs from the Uni- happy when [he] wasn’t angry. This screws thought and livelihood. “So… there was an accident last May, and versity of Melbourne, however, where a you up—you’re like, ‘I love you Daddy’, be- he died. Yeah, you can’t make this shit up, new web-based project to provide online cause you’re so happy they’re not mad any- I have no clear answers for the women can you?” she shrugs. support for domestic violence is current- more.” still living in fear. It remains astounding ly being trialled. Led by Professor Kelsey that someone’s frustration and insecurity Jennifer’s brother died from brain damage Hegarty from the Department of General She describes her father as a controlling is justification enough to destroy another’s after slipping and hitting his head on the Practice, ‘I-DECIDE’ offers users securi- man, who would decide what her family sense of self. And in the current political pavement on his way home from school one ty through self-directed survey questions. watched on television, where they lived, climate, with domestic violence support evening. He was 17, and it had been two The project is described as “a safe, private, and what they did—keeping them home services facing dramatic budget cuts, these weeks after he’d attempted to run away secure forum for women to assess their sometimes for fear of someone finding out. women are viewed as disposable at best, from home without success. relationship, weigh up their priorities, and She and her siblings tried to get through the and inconveniences at worst. plan for a safer future for themselves and ordeal with humour. “Some of his behav- “My parents always say ‘oh, I’m sure he’s their children”. Innovative solutions like iour was so bizarre that all we could do was No one ever deserves or asks for it. Do- in a happy place now’, and I’m like, ‘yeah these allow for women’s preferences for laugh about him behind his back,” she says. mestic violence is the sum of a communi- you’re right, because if he was still alive he’d non face-to-face disclosure of situations ty’s attitudes, cultures and beliefs; and its still be getting bashed’.” where women are afraid of their partners. Natasha gets annoyed when people ask why failure to take a stand against it. Without her mother didn’t just leave, or why she intervention, it will always continue. The importance of such projects cannot be didn’t speak up. “I thought if I say some- understated; their absence would be dev- thing and nothing happens, I’m fucked. He’s * Names have been changed in this article to Currently, Sydney University’s Counsel- astating. going to kill me,” she says. “I’m actually in- maintain anonymity. ling and Psychological Services (CAPS) clined to think that never would have hap- does not keep a statistical record on do- pened—he would have been scared. But you ** If you’re seeking support or assistance for mestic violence. However, Dr Phil Renner, just don’t know.” domestic violence, please refer to the services Head of CAPS, and Paul O’Donohue, a below: senior counsellor, tell me that ‘interper- Things got worse, and Natasha’s mother sonal relationship difficulties’ (sexual mis- “My family was like a microcosm of dicta- began sedating his coffee out of fear that he The University of Sydney Counselling and treatment; emotional or physical partner torship ... It’s not one of those things where might kill her. “I’m thinking of ways to dis- Psychological Services violence; bullying; and family violence) are he doesn’t mean it or he doesn’t understand. pose of you,” he once said to her. the fourth most common concerns of the It was very deliberate.” – Natasha. Telephone: 8627 8433 or 8627 8437 more than 2,500 students who present for One day, Natasha was called to the princi- E-mail: [email protected] individual appointments annually. CAPS Natasha is nervous about the interview; pal’s office at school and found her mother has limited resources. In 2012, howev- she takes several deep breaths before talk- and aunt waiting. They were finally sep- The National Sexual Assault, Family & Do- er, they ran a series of talks on ‘How to ing, and tells me not to take offence if she arating. “I’d never felt that euphoria,” she mestic Violence Counselling Service Make Relationships Work’, and are this can’t look directly at me while she talks, “It’s says. “I was physically affected—it was like year working with studentorganisations just really difficult for me.” coming out of a concentration camp. I was Telephone: 1800 737 732 to raise awareness on sexual harassment. still frightened; I guess I didn’t want to dare She’s a mature-age Science student, but this to dream.”

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Working in Domestic Violence Response

Anonymous worked for a domestic violence crisis centre when she was 19.

n 2014, the State Government radically restructured started working at an out-of-state 24 thick, thick files that go back to when the the homelessness sector. Some women’s refuges were shut, hour crisis centre for domestic violence service began and these clients, many of othersI were forced to provide generalist homelessness servic- Iwhen I was 19. I responded to an ad whom have lasting trauma, keep calling es, and most had their management handed from specialist and basically begged for the job with no back to this day. Sometimes you open a providers to large, faith-based charities. experience to rely on. filing cabinet and realise that the service has a file on three generations of women Anonymous worked as a domestic violence phone counsellor. My job involved me working 8 hour all from the one family. You can’t help but Here, she describes the human impact of the reforms. shifts with one other worker. We spent wonder what hope there can be for the each shift dealing with clients, and doing next generation. That said, there are a lot anything we could to facilitate their of clients who we deal with a few times HS: Where did you work? safety. Sometimes that just meant talking after an incident and they basically say them through something when they ‘thanks for the information, I can take it AN: I worked for a domestic violence crisis line in NSW. called, but other times we got invited to from here’ and we never hear from them attend incidents with police, take clients again or see a police notification at that HS: Can you describe your job? to hotels, or arrange legal support. I had address. a 24 hour roster so sometimes I worked AN: I worked for a 24 hour service which took phone calls from ‘on-call’; with the hotline diverted to my I got asked for my phone number on a victims of domestic violence. We would advise, educate, and mobile at home overnight. house call once, by a perpetrator I was counsel women, sometimes referring them to women’s domestic speaking to. I would have laughed out violence refuges. We only dealt with partner domestic violence, and For housing visits we had safety procedures loud if the situation hadn’t been so serious. we mainly dealt with women abused by male partners. that we stuck to, but things sometimes It was the middle of the night, we were went haywire. I remember one incident surrounded by police and the glass this HS: Did the State Government reforms impact the services you where, after a phone conversation with a man had broken by pushing his partner provided to women? client, I thought that her mother was the into it, and he straight up asked me for my one using violence. Because the mother number. It was bold to say the least. AN: Yes. Even though the changes didn’t directly impact my job, it was in hospital, we (me and a colleague) stopped the people doing my job from doing it properly. assumed it would be safe to speak to the Working for the management service woman without a police presence at her convinced me that bail laws need to change. Previously, I could expect to be able to get most of my ladies home. However, the perpetrator was We need to stop judges being allowed to [clients] into a refuge. After the changes, there were times when actually her sister, as became clear at the consider someone worthy of bail because there was simply not a refuge anymore. I’ve been working in the house visit. We were about to leave when they aren’t a risk to the general community, field for years, and I’ve never had so much trouble placing women the sister and her friends showed up, all just a specific person or persons. It’s dirty as in the months after they introduced those changes. on meth. They started screaming and money-saving (because once we start banging on the windows. We had to run actually locking all these perpetrators up When you are counselling someone, and trying to convince them around closing them, lock ourselves in the it will get very expensive) and prioritises that being away from a violent husband is better for them and the bathroom and call the police. They came the human rights of someone charged of children, if you say to them “we will be able to get you a place in quickly and everything was fine. I was an offence over the human rights of their a refuge, it may not be now but it will be soon”, you can convince pretty embarrassed. families to live in safety and without fear. women to leave. But now, if you are honest to the women and I’m sick of the justice system seeming say that they might end up homeless, it’s much harder to convince I worked with a mixture of new and repeat genuinely surprised when a man with a them that leaving the violence may be a viable option. clients. New clients pop up every single violent past is released from prison after day, which can be confronting when you his partner called police on him and then start doing simple sums in your head he goes home angry and assaults her. It’s about how many people in town must be so fucking foreseeable. experiencing violence. But there are also

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An anonymous Economics tutor loves the game (theory).

et’s assume a dated, gendered, matches who they actually fancy. Likewise, effectively increased the cost of swiping as he assumes that his interest won’t be heteronormative binary. it makes sense for women to be picky right: with a limit, each right-swipe can reciprocated and doesn’t want to waste a L when all men are swiping right; otherwise prevent a person from swiping right on right-swipe. This means the app is, to a Straight men who use the dating app they’d be overwhelmed with matches. In someone better in the future. Tinder has degree, less ‘incentive compatible’; some Tinder are known to ‘swipe right on economics, we call this situation a ‘Nash imposed discretion—something they were agents aren’t truthfully registering their everyone’; indicating that they want to put Equilibrium’, as no man or woman can idiots to initially assume of their users. preferences when swiping. themselves inside every woman they could be made better off by single-handedly potentially ‘match’ with. Straight women changing his or her strategy (unless their This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Selective This technical deficiency could have real are, anecdotally, more selective, examining single-handed strategy involves putting Tinder users benefit when their matches consequences for the quality of matches men’s profiles in greater detail and swiping down the phone and using their hand). are actually interested in them, despite facilitated by Tinder. Let’s take the (rare) right only when genuinely interested in a the necessary blow to pride that is the scenario that the hypothetical man above prospective mate. But last week, Tinder introduced a game occasional rejection from newly picky has underestimated his appeal to women. (theory) changer: a premium service, creeps. There’s probably also an argument By swiping left, he has missed out on a A person as utterly cold and unfeeling as I ‘Tinder Plus’. To encourage users to to be made that Tinder becomes a little particularly appealing match. The world am would see this as an exercise in single- fork out for the service, Tinder will limit less gross when men actually consider the may have been robbed of something agent decision theory. the number of right-swipes available profiles of women presented to them; you beautiful. to users of the standard service. Those know, looking at what they like, how they From a game theorist’s perspective, both who exceed a certain number of right describe themselves, and broadly treating Of course, to consider this a real, the ‘swipe right’ strategy and its female swipes—determined by an ‘intelligent’ them as human beings, rather than hot rigs consequential loss is to ignore the fact counterpart make sense. If women are (and unspecified) algorithm—must wait to bonk. But these passionate arguments that Tinder is a loathsome hotbed of picky, men who swipe selectively will waste 12 hours before they can again drag their of flesh and personhood do not excite my meaningless, youthful fuck and that their time sorting through the profiles insensitive genitals across a shapeless sea cold, theoretic soul. anyone who does think of themselves as of women likely to reject them anyway. of presumably human forms. worth the affection of more than thirty They’re better off liking every woman, However, there is also a risk that the people per day is probably a piece of shit ‘matching’ with the women who are These developments mean that the limit could prevent ‘good’ matches from anyway. interested in them (a couple will ‘match’ undiscerning (or at least, the poor and forming. A man worried about exceeding on tinder if they have each swiped right horny) will no longer swipe right to his swipe limit may swipe left (reject) on the other), and then only talking to the everyone. This is because Tinder has someone he considers very attractive, Bodies Floating On A Private Sea

Peter Walsh and Sam Jonscher discovered the virtues of floating in the dark.

Bondi Junction Massage and Float Centre Our guide revealed where we would be moments of relaxation these sounds previous attendees, and it was. Even just Individual Float: $45 floating, a pair of plexiglass cocoons with cumulate with the pressure against your allocating an hour a week to aimless 9am Float: $30 sliding doors reminiscent of a 70s garage. ears to collapse into a personal, hypnotic floating works significantly to facilitate Introductory Float Course (Three Floats): She motioned to the shower and explained rave. Bright colors, soft focus and moments relaxation. $105 that for health and safety reasons everyone of clarity loom behind your eyelids. But had to wash themselves before getting the pressure of the water keeps you bound. We went back twice more: the experience or a long time, sensory deprivation in—“Its reassuring to know that everyone At first it propels you upwards, its weight varying both times. While the second chambers only existed for me in The who gets in there is nice and clean”. pushing against you like the compression float was marked by some particularly FSimpsons. Homer sails dreamily through Somehow this was not ressuring. (The socks they give to pregnant women. Like un-zen agitation for both participants the air, famously. Sensory deprivation (or literature suggests that each chamber runs a boat floating dumbly against a pier, your (culminating in Sam actually leaving the floatation) is the experience of lowering water through a filter between and during body initially drifts into the tank’s sides. tank early, while Peter slooped his body yourself into a pool of ultra-salinised water floats, which possibly contributes to the Once you learn to steady yourself and side to side like he was on a waterslide at and floating in darkness. The water is the way you drift in what is an otherwise still drift untouched, it’s as if you’re off upon Jamberoo, again getting water in his eyes same temperature as your body, so you feel body of water). a private sea. painfully, but leaving the tank firmly in endless. What’s more, the 250 kg of salt control of the action), the third and final dissolved in each tank keeps you buoyant, The floater has a shower—immediately You have the option of starting your float one gave way to an even deeper relaxation. so you feel like you have cheated gravity. guaranteeing the float is more hygienic to 15 minutes of ambient music, which, than any childhood jaunt to the local in conjunction with the darkness, recalls After our final float when we met back on In the waiting room, Sam gestured at a swimming pool, which our communities the scene in the space film where the team the couch in front of the chamomile tea tropical fish suspended and motionless in used as disposal sites for smegma—and goes into cryosleep. The first moment after and our fishy friend we both agreed that a tank against the opposite wall. “Peter, seal any cuts with vaseline to avoid the salt the music fades and you’re left in silence is though it had hardly been transcendent— that will be us”, she said, not noticing the getting in. Peter didn’t heed this warning harrowing. But the hour passes, the music the internet promises unlocked childhood fish wasn’t moving and gradually turning and also got tank water in his eyes almost rises once more, and you’re forced to leave. memories and hallucinations (Peter upside down in the tank. And soon it immediately after lowering himself in, merely fixated on his ultimate solitude was. We were led to our respective tanks, which was agonising. Once resolved, Sam and Pete meet back in the waiting in the universe and Sam by choice or passing paintings of breaching whales however, the experience was strangely room, salt kissed and relaxed. Our otherwise meditated her most recent (which resemble the way a folded five hypnotising. guide offers us unsupervised amounts sexual encounter vividly and at length)— dollar bill looks like a whale eating a of chamomile tea, raw nuts and ginger it had been relaxing and an experience we penis). The earplugs you wear to keep the salt out biscuits while we peruse a visitor’s book would recommend to anyone. of your ears but leave you hyperconscious where people review their floats. “It was of your breathing and your heart. In good” was the laconic agreement from 18 A Date With For Some Effective Altruists F*ck’s Sake

Victoria Zerbst’s ex saved lives by cheating on her. Sam Langford took some (aste)risks writing this article.

first heard about effective altruism in ourselves utilitarians because we didn’t yping the word “wom*n” on a phone USU’s We Are Women publication talks Peter Singer’s TED talk. It sounded know how to measure utility. one-handed is like a weird, thumb- about censoring the “essential male” from Ireally smart. He strung together buzzwords specificT brand of calisthenics. The upside is women’s experience and language, which to craft catchy phrases, like “combining Utility has various definitions that include that once the violent finger-contortions are is etymologically questionable at best.2 It’s empathy with evidence”, which has a real economic well-being, lack of suffering, or over, it’s one of the few words autocorrect also not doing a whole lot to make things nice ring to it. He explained that we ought just pleasure (if you’re a hedonist which doesn’t immediately try to butcher. This is “more inclusive”, as the minutes from a to make the world a better place by using no one was because of Robert Nozick’s possibly because autocorrect, like most of June 2014 USU Board meeting helpfully evidence and reason to find out how to do Experience Machine). The leader of the us, has no idea what it’s actually supposed offered, which may or may not have been so. week’s lesson plan said his utility function to mean. plagiarised directly from the SRC. While was a combination of lack of suffering, the SRC did promise “more information The Centre for Effective Altruism is based personal agency and a fun factor. Until very recently, I assumed that I knew and explanation about this decision at a at the University of Oxford, run mostly what “wom*n” meant, mostly because I later date”, neither they nor the USU ever by super rational white guys with PhDs The fun factor was a new idea for me, and supposedly am one. It was only at OWeek, got around to telling us exactly who was in philosophy. They work on initiatives for John apparently. John’s transhumanist when I invited some first-year friends being included and how. like Effective Animal Activism, which is best friend (also at the meeting) got him to the Wom*n’s Comedy Night, that I all about weighing up the most effective interested in polyamory. realised that the meaning of an asterisk1 Even the most recent content is unhelpful. ways of being kind to animals, and Give is anything but immediately obvious. I The Wom*n’s Collective OWeek zine this Well, a non-profit that rates the efficiency Transhumanism or humanity+ or h+ ended up giving my confused friends year dedicated an entire page to circular of different charity organisations. for short, is an intellectual movement the “as I understand it” definition, which definitions of the word, essentially telling super keen on transforming the human was that the asterisk functions as a neat us that “wom*n” encompasses wom*n, trans I quickly devoured Peter Singer’s books condition into a super human experience shorthand to quickly and visually flag the and non-binary people. This is delightfully for breakfast—necessary supplements to with enhanced well-being, longer life and inclusion of non-binary people and trans inclusive, except of the first-year who still my new meat free and totally ethical diet. greater intelligence. It’s all about using women in whatever the word is referring has no idea what a “wom*n” is. The obvious next step in fully realising technology and innovative thinking to to. an effective altruist lifestyle was to start make humans the best (effective?) humans Admittedly, I haven’t yet contacted dating an equally serious effective altruist. they can be. Transhumanism has been I have no idea how I came to that any of the people responsible for these So I found one of those too. Let’s call him accused of being elitist and suffering from conclusion, though, because extensive definitions. The point is that I shouldn’t “John”. ‘ivory tower syndrome’. Dan Brown even research turns up nothing so clear-cut. have to. Not every first year comes to chose to characterise the latest villain in The Wom*n’s Collective page on the SRC university equipped with an identity Things with John were going pretty his Da Vinci Code books as a transhumanist website welcomes “all wom*n identifying politics starter kit, and very few have the effectively until he got into Stanford. hell bent on fixing population density. people and those that have had experience time or inclination to trawl through old as a wom*n,” yet never tells us what a SRC blog posts. If we’re going to develop I soon found myself visiting John in Transhumanism was all about having wom*n is, or if this person is different from strain googling this term on the fly, at the Silicon Valley and one of the first everything and then wanting more— the conventional “woman”. By contrast, the very least we deserve some answers for it. things he did was take me to a Stanford making polyamory an easy leap. John effective altruism meeting. The topic of began wanting a relationship+ to go 1. A symbol traditionally used for purposes as diverse as censorship, footnoting and as a this two-hour meeting was population with his human+ life, suggesting we use wildcard operator in database searches. ethics, but first we had to go around the philosophical strategies to “polyhack” our 2. Crash course: Old English used “man” as a gender neutral term for people, with pre- room addressing whether or not we were “current bond”. He tried to convince me fixes “wer-” and “wyf-” added to refer to man and woman respectively. The heaps trendy utilitarians. Utilitarianism holds that the that if we used rationality as a weapon “werman” dropped out of usage and became plain “man”, but “wyfman” lives on in its morally right thing to do is the thing that against jealously, we could totally date and bastardised form as “women”. If that made your eyes glaze over, the point is that while maximizes utility. Being a utilitarian was fuck as many people as we wanted. we might see the word “women” as derivative of “men” now, it wasn’t always that way. clearly the right answer. He decided to test this philosophical Other right answers included anything theory without telling me. An experiment hurting me wouldn’t be so bad. and charity. My effective altruist boyfriend promoted by Eliezer Yudkowsky, also known as ‘cheating’. I received a phone had failed me because he championed the a research fellow of the Machine call from him the day after informing me He assured me that although I had a big picture over my feelings. And that is Intelligence Research Institute and that he had ‘hooked up’ with a number broken heart; his mistake was now saving kind of bullshit. But in the meantime why blogger on utilitarian blog Less Wrong. of people at ‘Full Moon on the Quad’; lives. If the consequence of his cheating not marvel at the glorious by-products of He felt like the omnipresent, invisible cult an infamously debaucherous Stanford lead to the improvement of 16 lives, my sophisticated rational thought: veganism, leader at the head of our table. I did some tradition. momentary sadness would be worth it, group sex, and a break-up that cured 16 research after the meeting and found some apparently. Why the Against Malaria orphans of Malaria. amazing Yudkowsky journalistic works, When I was upset, he realised that he may Foundation? It was the top rated charity with names like ‘Intellectual Hipsters and have done something wrong so he told me on Give Well at the time. Meta-Contrarianism’, and ‘31 Laws of he was going to fix everything, I just had to Fun’. He also has a philosophical fanfic-in- give him time. Two hours later he donated How could I not forgive him? His apology progess: ‘Harry Potter and the Methods of $400 to the Against Malaria Foundation had such a fun factor! But still, his kind of Rationality.’ in my name and sent me the receipt with effective altruist thinking probably works an apologetic email. better at addressing population ethics than I felt a little unsure about everything interpersonal relationships. and the guy sitting next to me shared According to John, each person has equal my position. We both agreed that value, and the suffering of each person When John cheated on me I felt totally the consequences of our actions were has equal value. If he could elevate the hurt, especially because he was someone important, but we were hesitant to call suffering of 16 African orphans, his who spouted lofty ideas about empathy 19 src officebearer reports

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s the semester picks up momentum your degree and sentence multiple students, from those who will struggle is a right and not a privilege, march with and uni begins to take over your life, minority groups, and many other under- later on in life as a result of their sexual us to call for the death of deregulation. If IA wantyou to have a think about your fu- privileged students, to be in debt for life. orientation, and wom*n who already ex- the bill is voted down, march with us call- ture. Upon enrolling into university, many The Government’s hypocritical and re- perience the bare brunt of the gender pay ing for a free education system. If we have of you would have selected to pay for it gressive approach to higher education is gap and therefore would take longer to pay enough money to fund the killing of in- through HECS. By the time you read this damaging for students from almost every off their debt to their university. nocent people around the world, then we report the Senate may have already voted walk of life. It takes away opportunities The vote could go two ways this week; for, have enough to help people in our home- on the new reforms by the Liberal from those who must spend large amounts or against. Either way I encourage you to land and build the future of our country Government regarding the deregulation of money to travel to uni from rural re- take a stand on the 25th March for the for the next generation. of universities. This means that gions, from those of inherently disadvan- National Day of Action. If the bill is voted universities can charge what they want for taged backgrounds, such as Indigenous up and you believe that a quality education

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David Shakes.

ast week, our Vice Chancellor the fantastic “19th Century” movement universities could compensate for the lack Senate on the day that this edition of Honi Michael Spence appeared on the 7:30 for a free, public, secular education system of government funding, and to respond goes to print. The government is desperate LReport with Glynn Davis, Vice Chancellor in Australia which afforded both him and to “local conditions”. Spence basically to broker a deal with cross benchers to of Melbourne University, and Rose the other Vice Chancellor a free university reckons he should be able to determine get the bill through. We hope the cross Steele, President of the National Union degree. He then made a smooth segue how wealthy you must be to study at the benchers hold strong in their opposition, of Students (NUS). They were there to into corporate greed, maintaining the University of Sydney. The other VC agreed and students have another chance to publicly condemn the Abbott government “accepted wisdom of Australian politics, wholeheartedly; the most prestigious enter the public debate by demonstrating for tying research funding to the university on both sides of politics” is that students universities in the country encourage in numbers on March 25th in the first fee deregulation package. If the package should have to front costs, as universities competition and consumer choice. Living National Day of Action for higher is voted down in the Senate, no research are businesses, and education a private and studying in Sydney doesn’t permit education of the year, outside Fisher funding will be assured, leaving 1,700 investment. It is important to remember many a particularly glamorous lifestyle, Library at 1 PM. And join the EAG. Now science jobs at risk, and potentially setting that indeed it was the Labor party who but the university does offer a whole lot of would be the time. back research and innovation projects opened the door for more brutal attacks on opportunity. Most students live under the by several years. It’s outrageous that the the higher education through the Gillard poverty line, but how much more would/ government would hold research funding government’s cuts to higher education. could you pay? How many meals will you hostage in the name of gutting the higher sacrifice for your education? education system. Spence argued further that university At one point, Michael Spence spoke about fees should be deregulated so that Fee deregulation is being heard in the Disabilities and Carers Officers’ Report

Samuel Brewer.

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Eden Caceda, Kavya Kalutantiri, Lamisse Hamouda and Deeba Binaei.

ello again! Your Ethnic Affairs Of- During OWeek we hosted our first two collective. It was great to see the intersec- both face in society. ficers here! The Autonomous Col- events of the year. The first was a Safe tionality in this years collective, with queer Hlective Against Racism (ACAR) had a Spaces panel where our speakers, Riki and wom*n of colour becoming more in- If you missed us at OWeek, never fear! It's fantastic turnout this OWeek and we were Scanlan, Subeta Vimalarajah and our- volved with ACAR. This social event is easy to join us during the year. We're in very pleased to work closely with the new- selves, Eden and Lamisse discussed what one of many we hope to hold to allow stu- the midst of choosing a collective meet- ly formed Muslim Wom*ns Collective at is necessary to create safe spaces so no Per- dents of colour to mix together and move ing time, but until then, we have a fantas- our stall. We gave out over 150 gift bags son of Colour, wom*n, queer or disabled away from a political sphere of discussion. tic Facebook group where we discuss and with pamphlets and other information individual feels threatened, silenced or organise. Likewise if you want to keep up about fighting racism on campus, online attacked. We also talked about how safe ACAR also applauds the many queer and with our events and campaigns, but maybe resources and our inaugural zine with spaces could be fostered and how all peo- wom*n of colour who were involved with don’t identify as a Person of Colour, chuck contributions from students of colour. ple can contribute to making marginalized International Women’s Day and celebrat- us a ‘like’ on our ACAR Facebook page: We hope these materials will continue to people feel welcome in social spaces. ed the successful (and rain-free) Mardi www.facebook.com/usydacar inform students about our collective and Gras. These two events are important be- our aims in providing a racist-free and safe Our second event was an autonomous cause they remind us about the successes Have a great week! university space. mixer where new and old members of of both queer and wom*n of colour as well Ethnic Affairs Officers ACAR could meet and come together as a as highlight the continued struggle they Queer Action Collective Report

Amy Stanford-Davis.

etting involved in the queer 1. Join our mailing list and/or Facebook page 2. Hang out in the Queerspace 3. Attend a Pride Week event community, on or off campus, can Gbe difficult. There’s the risk of outing QuAC has a secret Facebook group to The Queerspace aims to be a safe(r) space Pride Week is coming up in Week 4 (24- and having to explain your whereabouts avoid outing. Email the Queer Officers for queer and questioning students and is 26 March) and promises to be amazing! to friends and family. There’s the social on [email protected] to be a great place to study, chat to other queer On the first day we’re having a mini Fair anxiety of going to an event alone and added to the group. In that group you people or have a sneaky nap between Day with stalls, a speaker panel, queer yoga meeting new people. Perhaps you’re still will receive information about upcoming classes. Spending time in the Queerspace and drag performances. This is followed by exploring or questioning your sexuality events like board games evenings, movie is probably one of the easiest and low two days jam-packed with workshops and or gender or presently in a heterosexual nights and workshops that you might like pressure ways to meet other people in the evening events including Coming Out By relationship. to come to. queer community on campus. Candlelight, movie night and Queer Beers at Hermans. For more information go to: Rest assured, we have all felt this way If you want to come to something but are If you don’t know how to find it go to at some point or another. Persevering not sure what to expect or where to go, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb_ http://www.usu.edu.au/Bar…/Festivals/ through the awkwardness and anxiety you just need a friendly queer to show you UgucYbQc and follow the instructions Pride-Festival-(1).aspx and self-doubt is totally worth it. If you’re the way, let the Queer Officers know and in the video. Or email the Queer Officers looking for ways to get involved here’s a one of us will be more than happy to help and we’ll help you out. few: you out. Intercampus Officers’ Report

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Editorial Report: SECOND NERD Everyone thinking Looking to the of you whenever future, learning from you worry KING DIES IN AS they might be the future, letting the You probably think this is about you future learn from us MANY WEEKS Top neurologists at Cambridge today I have never been especially fond of confirmed that the pineal gland actually looking to the future. I know that this My heart is so heavy that I offer no name. Death will make worms of us all allows human beings to sense when other is not a notion that is especially popular human beings are thinking of them, with with my contemporaries, but I have always a frequency of roughly every single time been of the opinion that the soundest you think they are. advice comes from the past—a time that has actually occurred from which we In a random trial, the brain activity might realistically learn lessons—rather of one hundred associated individuals than the horrible, infinite possible worlds was monitored, revealing that each that constitute the future. individual developed feelings of anxiety and apprehension in accordance with The place of the editor is in a state of when they were being judged by basically flux. We have, at present, qualified and everyone else in the room. unqualified writers alike with their heads on the chopping block all for the mere “We can see on these charts here that words they dare to publish to thousands Subject-17, Frank, developed an acute and thousands of people every week. These feeling of concern about anyone noticing agenda setters are being held to cruel the pimple on his nose which, of course, account for sentiments they cannot be was brought about by everyone else in the assured to so much as privately hold. room simultaneously thinking ‘What’s up with crater-face?’ ” People have the gall to decry our work as falsehoods. By what right? Evolutionary biologist Esmarine Evergreen told The Garter that the capacity Words are infinitely valuable. Every word to sense that everyone is thinking about is infinitely valuable. Editorials like these you when you think they are developed are infinitely valuable to an infinite extent, as an advantage early in our evolutionary greater than both previously stipulated history, when society was too polite to infinities. Representatives from multiple quadrants of nerd and geek culture arrive at William tell others when they thought they didn’t Shatner’s Basilica in Ottumwa, Iowa, to coordinate a response to the latest dead icon. measure up to arbitrary standards and I do not like the idea of working with would instead exile them by collectively robots, but if this is the human degree of While nerds across the planet have mourned Orchestrated murders of Nerd Kings are willing them somewhere else. account to which noble papers will be held, the passing of geek icons Leonard Nimoy not without precedent. Carl Sagan, Marie what option have we? Can’t prosecute a and Terry Pratchett, the Council of Nerd Curie, and the guy who played Steve Urkel The neurologists concluded by saying robot, can ya? Enter HATEBOT 1.0! Kings has called an emergency convocation all passed in what the Council maintains your capacity to sense the judgment of to address the suspiciously proximate deaths are “highly suspicious circumstances”. others is most attuned when entering an There is no telling how many reporters of two of their most senior acolytes. unfamiliar social situation for the first The Garter will have to replace with In the event of the death of a Nerd King, time or basically whenever you’re feeling automatons, but know this: my respect for Pratchett, who passed on Friday, was a well the matter that previously constituted emotionally fragile. outlandish hatred outweighs my nostalgia. known King of the Nerds, while Leonard their bodies is reduced to fermions and Nimoy, also-Nerd-King, died last week. Te bosons, at which time the fundamental We will adapt, and become stronger. There remaining councillors suspect foul play. particles collide at light-speed, creating IN THIS ISSUE: may well come a time where I, too, become a tremendous number of infinitely redundant. So long as it is in pursuit of the “While it is too early to point fingers, we cannot wonderful and beautiful universes. Platonic ideal of a newspaper, it is not in rule out the possibility that these unfortunate Bad hair day actually vain. deaths are attacks, orchestrated by the Cool Nimoy and Pratchett will be remembered just awful day Jocks,” said Geek Viceroy Nichelle Nichols in for their incredible work undermining page 13 Amanda(tron?) Huntingslow her opening address to the convocation. prejudice, empowering the strange, and Executive Editor celebrating the different. Onion literally murders opposing satirists, literally page 13 25 The Garter Press LOCAL PEOPLE SUCK Brave lonely male takes Local mum Intrepid explorer controversial stance of balances work, arrives at Google being sex-positive leisure, six via Bing The Internet reports I went into his bedroom to interview him and he won’t stop talking sharp swords After watching “more than a few” Laci and stuff, and as a result, women don’t want I vowed never to lose another Local old person Valma Briggs has today Green Youtube videos and “just thinking to have sex with me. It’s really sad actually.” eyebrow and I’ll be damned revealed that, for no other reason than a about how women are treated” on Satur- if this hellangel breaks that promise love of challenge, apparently, her preferred day afternoon, film studies major and am- When Platt was asked about his position way of accessing “the google search” is to eteur blogger Richard Platt announced he on deconstructing and removing institu- A local mother has attained the perfect type “google” into her homepage, bing.com. has undertaken the contentious and possi- tional demonstrations of patriarchy, or in- work-sword-life balance, seamlessly juggling bly dangerous position of being a sex-pos- cluding women of color and trans women her successful career with a thriving family Google executives are baffled. itive feminist. into the feminist movement, he replied and social life, as well as six deadly blades. “Yeah, definitely. All that stuff. For sure.” “I’ve run the numbers a lot of times. She “This is something I’ve felt for a while and Elizabeth Lyon, aged 34 “but 21 at heart!” uses Chrome as a browser. Google was only had the courage to come out about “Ultimately,” Platt concluded “feminism is a Personnel Optimisation Coordinator at some point her home page. Each tab recently. But it’s my honest opinion. I isn’t about what I think. It’s about women’s in her parents’ North Sydney-based firm, opens, by default, on a Google search. She think chicks should have sex more.” experiences and women’s choices. Their to which she commutes daily from her either doesn’t understand the basics of choices regarding their own reproductive Wahroonga home. There she resides accessing the Internet, or she is truly some “This is a thing so many people have an system, their choices about going out how with her husband John, son Andrew, sort of digital Christopher Columbus issue with, but I’m coming forward as a they feel like at night and their choices to daughter Stephanie, the children’s full- of our time,” an exasperated Tim Cook person that supports women’s decision to have sex with whoever they like, preferably time nanny, and a collection of many stated. have sex with dudes like me. All over the really interesting feminist dudes like me.” sharp blades. mainstream media, we see slut shaming Briggs says her trick is simply to “search Every weekend, Lyon goes out for drinks for exactly what it is that I’m looking for.” SHIT NEARLY COMING OUT OF with her girlfriends, where on a recent BOTTOM COS WE’RE ALMOST HOME outing, she discovered juggling. “Sometimes, if I want to learn something, say, the name of John Nettles’ first wife, I IS IT BETTER OR WORSE IF WE RUN? YOU GO QUICK BUT IT’S MORE LIKELY TO COME OUT “My 9-5 office job wasn’t keeping me will type into bing ‘google search’ and then A local rectum has realized that it’s sphincter that her shit might escape from, social or physically dexterous,” she says, when I am into the Google I type in ‘what nearly arrived home, much to the rest right up until she pulled into her driveway. “I’ve always balanced my commitments is the name of the first person to be married of its body’s dismay. Area sources have “This is where the bathroom is! THIS really well, so I thought: how hard could it to John Nettles from Midsomer Murders’?’” confirmed that Amelia Forbes was about IS WHERE THE BATHROOM be to juggle some swords with them, too?” two minutes from home after seeing a film IS!” Forbes’ butthole was seen to shout, Briggs has been unresponsive to those with her girlfriend when her anus picked coming perilously close to leaking its After several days with training balls, who have tried to dissuade her from her up on how close they were to a toilet. grotesque cargo as Forbes stepped out of Lyon moved onto juggling paraphernalia daily epic. At press time, a flustered and her car and waddled to the front door. from her work and home, before very much confused Briggs slapped away “I am so full. We are nearly at the toilet gradually adding swords to “keep things six well-intending hands, saying “Yes, and the toilet is where I can put all of Forbes, now in the bathroom, says that interesting”. She can now simultaneously you’re always talking about your way, but what is inside me. I’m going to start she is “enormously relieved,” to have juggle a manila work folder, her luxury I’m talking about my way.” putting it out. I am. I am. I am,” The anus made it. Playing down the scare, Forbes smartphone, six swords, and her daughter belched into the driver’s seat. stated “I didn’t think I was ever actually Stephanie. “I’ll get it myself, eventually!” she boldly going to shit myself,” but her anus declared of her latest expedition. A visibly uncomfortable Forbes was seen disagrees. At press time, Stephanie was loudly crying shifting from left to right, holding her and asking to not be juggled. stomach and clenching her arse so damn “I know. I always know. Next time I will The epic continues pages 40 - 73 tight that there wasn’t an inch of free get her.”

26 The Garter Press VERY VALUABLE OPINIONS Ladies, don’t go dating Listen lefties: all the a supervolcano anti-gun legislation in Letters in love with the world won’t take this Lynette Hutchinson bullet out of my shoulder I know a lot of people more in love on account of his being a supervolcano. I The definitely real state of definitely this country, by with the idea of someone than that first realised something was wrong when someone, or supervolcano, as they he wouldn’t stop smoking. I told him to ranch fiction writer and megachurch megapreacher: actually are. Expectations have ruined stop, and normally men do exactly as I say The Reverend Jeremiah Stone more relationships than infidelity and (I keep an axe), but he wouldn’t. His hot kindness, and no matter how many times temper and violent flashes (of lava) led me I swear to our father who art in heaven, of the situation is that true patriots will you tell yourself that you aren’t dating a to dig deeper, and my word, the soil was it’s been quite a while now that these stand behind the second amendment for supervolcano, you may well be. The refusal fertile but I was furious. This whole time lord-hatin’, Stalin-lovin’ vegetarian’ folk all the America-lovin’ glory we are worth, to recognize it is ugly and stupid. he’d been a super volcano and never told have been sayin’ we oughta take my guns and that I am losing a significant amount me, never said a word. It is a deception and give ‘em to the thought police to use of blood and gettin’ kinda light-headed I often have young idiots write in asking that too many people are complacent against me when the Democrats force us over here. Useless measures like bans on whether I think they’ll be compatible, about, and willing to forgive. all into gay marriages. Well, let me tell you assault weapons and larger ammunition or some rubbish about star signs. More tofu-eating scum one thing: no matter magazines are like using an old belt to often than not I write back telling them I considered planting some grapes. I knew how much anti-constitutional garbage stop the flow of blood through a gushing if they’re thinking about compatibility they’d do very well in his soil but, dear you make this sinful nation’s kangaroo wound. It just won’t work (I am trying it they’re useless and have too much time on reader, never hang around a lover who isn’t courts enforce, you will never, ever, take right now). their hands. You don’t deserve it, but I will giving back. Not even for grapes. I’d tell this bullet out of my shoulder. It’s lodged share my own experience. you not to make the same mistake as I did, in there real deep. I’ve tried to pick it out Just face it, you America hating hippies, but you’re an idiot so you probably will. myself but there’s a big chunk of bone tryna create meaningful gun reform is My husband and I tried for many years to in the way and I can’t quite fit my pliers about as realistic as my efforts to save the stay together because I’m a traditionalist, The fact is, all good people will probably through it. My old lady, Betty-Lou, says I very arm I shot myself with. Good luck and we work at things miserably. In my wed a supervolcano at some point in their should visit a “hospital” but I’ll be darned getting’ through the Su-preme Court day, if something was broken, you kept lives. The sooner you recognise the spitting if I ever visit one of those death factories or any blessed arm of our God-willlin’, at it until it was a lot more broken than of molten-hot magma and vomitous in my life. NRA-lobbied political system. Even if before and then you threw it out in a fit plumes of sulphuric smoke for what they I could stop the bleeding, I don’t want of rage. Dear stupid reader, I’m sure you’re are, the better. Don’t let it all blow up in It doesn’t gosh-darn matter how much no blood from some dirty ass nancy boy thinking “Oh poor Lynette, trapped in a your face—and I do mean blow up in the you peace loving bleedin’-hearts try to college kid. I think I’d rather go to heaven loveless marriage,” well don’t cry for me, I sense of a horrible, lethal, firey eruption. introduce background checks or waiting and do some American Snipering with threw him out. It just took some digging, periods to own firearms. The simple fact American Sniper Chris Kyle. Too bad all of the matter is that I have just shot my of you pinko losers will be down in hell ANYTHING YOU CAN HATE, self with my Smith & Wesson .44 revolver with the terrorists. while trying to clean the thing and there’s I CAN HATE BETTER nothing you can do about it. Reverend Jeremiad Stone is a ranch fiction Meditations on the Hockey fiasco writer and megachurch megapreacher. His by HATEBOT 1.0 Your tweed jacket wearing college professors latest book, “Gosh-Darn the Blood Just can spout ‘statistics’ and misinterpretations Won’t Stop Comin’” will be available from WHEN I WAS FIRST INTRODUCED INSTANCES OF THE WORD CUNT: 0 of the constitution all day long. The reality selected bookstores in late March. 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