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Mark Scott appointed new Sapphic fruit in Queer-baiting Vice-Chancellor / P 4 Goblin Market / P 15 in anime / P 14 Acknowledgement of Country Letters First Zionist letter! (Week 2, Tom Wark). Firstly, no Ask Abe Honi Soit is published on the people, we are the beneficiaries of and enabled by the government, who We commit to being a counterpoint one asked. Secondly, there’s 58 sovereign land of the Gadigal People ongoing colonial dispossession. The push ahead with the forced removals to mainstream media’s silencing of I observed that Students for Dear Abe, Sydney Uni’s SAUCIEST socialite! public golf courses in Sydney? of the Eora Nation, who were amongst settler-colonial project of ‘Australia’ of Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Palestine @ Sydney University We briefly met last Wednesday Cool how many cricket ovals are the first to resist against and survive and all its institutions, including the families, their Country, and their people. We remain cognisant that have been publicising an event at Honi’s pumping party. I was Dear plumptious beauties, there that are used for like six the violence of colonisation. This University, are built on the exclusion cultures. Aboriginal peoples are the Honi’s writers and readership are on their Facebook page for Israeli entranced by your deep dark eyes other sports and otherwise fully land was taken without consent and of First Nations peoples and the most incarcerated on earth, and there predominantly made up of settlers, Apartheid Week. and wise whiskery face. Anyway, Wax play: the sequel accessible green space all year sovereignty was never ceded. We devaluation of Indigenous knowledge have been nearly 450 documented and aim to platform Indigenous I made a reasonable comment on I have a problem. I was recently I was relaxing on my chaise lounge late round??? Thirdly, the equipment pay our respects to Elders past and systems. Beneath the sandstone Indigenous deaths in custody since voices in our paper. that page questioning the verity of the subject of a malicious internet last Sunday when I was smacked in the line — golf is expensive! Sorry but present, and extend that respect to all buildings of USyd lie thousands of the 1991 Royal Commision. There is no justice without assertions they have made there attack, filled with spurious face by a bastardly betrayal! Feisty Fabian cricket being expensive doesn’t Robertson published a nasty article outing Indigenous students and staff at the years of Aboriginal history. We pledge to actively stand Indigenous justice. and I was rewarded by my comment allegations. I have a public image negate the fact that golf is ALSO me as a bad, bad journalist. In the article, University. Colonialism is not a one-time event in solidarity with First Nations Always was and always will be being removed and being blocked to uphold, and this cowardly expensive! How did this man Master Robertson revealed that the Taylor As a team of settlers occupying the that occurred in the distant past; it is movements towards decolonisation Aboriginal land. completely from posting there any attack will tarnish my squeaky compare a set of used clubs to a Swift wax figure was not $250k, but free! lands of the Gadigal, Dharug, Wangal, an ongoing structure. The genocide of through our editorial decisions, and more. clean reputation. top of the line cricket bat that no Miss Soit was then flogged for publishing Biddegal, Kuringgai and Wallumedegal First Nations people is perpetuated to be reflective when we fail to do so. This intolerant behaviour by one actually buys. While I’m on it, I am hoping you could advise me “falsehoods” and “abandon[ing] journalistic responsibility.” Students for Palestine shows up did this man literally do a dollar on the best methods for seeking Shortly after this act of public Editor-in-Chief: their contempt for free speech, per hour comparison of football to cold, calculated revenge — which they scream they are denied untraceable, of course. humiliation, one of Miss Soit’s slippery Marlow Hurst gold and decide that was his best sources came back with a juicy tip: Editorial when it comes to making their Also, do you know any good Editors: metric to compare participation Titillating Taylor didn’t come for free! I started reading Honi when Danny Cabubas explored anime’s the spirit of Honi: students writing virulent, anti-Zionist outcries in sport??? What the actual duffed defamation lawyers? My aunt, Madame Tussaud, allegedly Deaundre Espejo, Vivienne Guo, about Israel, which frequently my fellow editor Shania made me. rampant queer baiting in Yuri on Thin on things they’re passionate about. nine iron from the rough? Love, gave the USU a fat discount in a meaty Marlow Hurst, Jeffrey Khoo, Juliette It wasn’t what I was expecting. Ice. Not only is this a historical issue They’re not necessarily relevant verge on anti-semitism. The best line of argument for marketing package valued up to $3,000. Marchant, Shania O’Brien, Claire There was a lot of news. It was very for the medium, but one persevering to USyd students as a broader Miss S. That pro-Palestinian keeping Moore Park is the fact that Fiendish Fabian also called Miss Soit Ollivain, Max Shanahan, Alice confusing. But I recognise that news to this day. As with all media, it’s demographic, but they’re relevant to an “anonymous pseudonym,” which is organisations avoid engagement it won’t actually achieve any of the Trenoweth-Creswell. is important. With this in mind, there important for fans and fandom to individual students. It’s sometimes surprising, considering he was all over and quash any commentary aims of accessible public parkland Writers: is news in this edition. I tried to push examine their subjects critically. easy to get caught up in the logic trap me at the Honi Party! Instead of accusing challenging them, while on the that Mayor Moore reckons it might. back, but they made me. They said I’d Danny explores this tension between of student relevance. Relevance to the Miss Soit of abandoning ‘truth,’ perhaps Danny Cabubas, Oscar Chaffey, other hand pleading for their Does anyone actually believe that never write again if I refused. Pls send appreciation and examination university or higher education aren’t Mr Robertson’s fast fingers could be put Alexandre Douglas, Isabel own message to be heard, is the in Sydney of all places, the capital help. I’m locked in the Honi offices beautifully. There’s much work to do, the only things which qualify an to better use. Freudenstein, Niam Gallagher, epitomy of a blind hypocrisy and of the most normatively corrupt and I have one can of whipped cream but Danny’s helping us get there! article. By virtue of a student wanting Ariana Haghighi, Amelia Koen, negativity that will do them no and moneyy-obsessed jurisdiction Drew Pavlou fucks! lef— Niamh Gallagher bites into to write about something, anything Alana Ramshaw, Chuyi Wang, Julius favours. in the western world, opening up Wittfoth, Zara Zadro, Jessica Zhan. Week 3 is jam packed with some the juicy peach of queer poetry in can be relevant. In a Parliamentary inquiry last Thursday, Yours, acres and acres of land in an area excellent articles. Ariana Haghighi Sapphic Fruits in Goblin Market. If this editorial leaves you with Delicious Big-Dick Drew ‘Pavlova’ Artists: where the median house price brought her A-game this week with While I’m against all forms of poetry anything let it be that Courtyard has Jack Morris Pavlou stripped down and revealed all! is seven fucking million dollars Contradicting the claims of a University Chloe Callow (@chloe.callow.art), Pigeon Power: In Appreciation Of Our in principle, this article won me over. refused to warm up my muffins for wouldn’t immediately result in spokesperson, Pavlou asserted that he is Bonnie Huang, Kritika Rathore, Feathered Friends. An ode to the hard While I still must object to the very three whole years! I still don’t know I hate golf but I looooove Janina Osinsao (@janina.png). more dumbshit apartments? not a virgin, a proclamation he has made work of pigeons throughout the ages. medium, I can appreciate the depth why and will investigate further, but cricket Best, many times before on social media. He Cover artist: It’s funny, irreverent, and historical of meaning in Goblin Market and its I really needed to tell someone. So, I was very disappointed in your certainly had Senator Jugular James Anon E. Moose Shania O’Brien (@shaniaobrienn). without being dry. While this edition delightful queer subtext. anyway, enjoy the edition! recent ‘In Defence of Golf’ article Paterson on the edge of his seat. It seems doesn’t have a feature, I consider this These are just three of my that Drew is pro-CCP (Cocks, Cunts and the next best thing. It’s as esoteric as favourites from this week. Three This is Marlow - signing off! 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2 3 NEWS NEWS Mark Scott appointed Welfare Collective protests auction of public “It’s hard not to think that he is being brought in to lead yet more as new Vice-Chancellor housing in Glebe Shania O’Brien and Maxim Shanahan report. restructures that will further Alana Ramshaw reports. ark Scott, the former ABC ask about the particular skillset n Wednesday afternoon, members stop maintaining, and then they come condemned the role that the University have to make a stand,” noted Socialist corporatise the university.” MManaging Director and current that the appointment committee Oof the USyd Welfare Collective after your house … They already want has played in the attacks on public Alliance representative Rachel Evans. NSW Education Department were looking for and have found joined community members armed to put fourteen stories in around the housing and its significance to the “That is the whole problem, that Secretary, has been appointed as in him. It’s hard not to think that with drums, whistles, and pots and corner. They want to put shops all Indigenous community in the area. they only look at the dollar. They do the new Vice-Chancellor of the he is being brought in to lead yet pans, outside 92 Cowper St Glebe, in the way to the new fish markets. They “The University of Sydney has been not look at the human beings, the University of Sydney for a five-year more restructures that will further protest of the auction of the Victorian have plans for this suburb. They are implicit in stealing public housing society, the people who are living term beginning on 19 July 2021. corporatise the university, reflecting corner-terrace. The protest was part of coming,” Wiss warned. over in Redfern. The Block has been here,” remarked former Leichhardt Scott is an alumnus of the the way that both our Senate and community group Hands Off Glebe’s mayor Máire Sheehan. Senior Executive Management treat university, holding a Diploma of campaign against the Liberal state “We need to take better care of people, The demonstration was a Education, Bachelor of Arts and the university as a ‘business’. The government’s selling of public housing resounding victory for the Glebe Master of Arts (Political Science NTEU is strongly opposed to the in the suburb. we need to invest in a public housing community in the wider war against and Government). He also holds a introduction of corporatist agendas The demonstration was chaired by system we can be proud of.” privatisation and attacks on public Master of Public Administration in universities, which undercut their Hands Off Glebe spokesperson, Denis housing. The inspection and auction of from Harvard University. Scott has role and functioning as institutions Doherty. “We need to take better care the house was ultimately postponed. previously worked on the staff of that serve the public good.” of people, we need to invest in a public Glebe resident Edwina Keelan told stolen and turned into student However, despite vocal community a number of NSW Liberal Party Hutchinson stated that, “He’s not housing system we can be proud of,” the protestors about the eviction notice accommodation … Students and opposition and a social housing ministers. going to be a researcher … we have Doherty proclaimed to a cacophony of she was served before Christmas last workers shouldn’t be opposed, they waiting list of over 50,000 people, 92 University Chancellor Belinda to take the community with us on cheers, whistles, and drumming. year: “This is the second eviction I’ve should be standing together,” said Cowper Street was sold today for $2 Hutchinson AC said that Scott is what we do and why what we do is Former Sydney University lecturer had. I used to live down in Wentworth Perkins. million. a “highly effective, respected and important … he’s got that ability to and Franklin Street resident Rose street. They booted us out, but now “[Social housing] is a really Groups like Hands Off Glebe have successful senior leader of large and engage people and to engage creative Wiss spoke on the recent interest I’ve got a big mouth because I know important thing to defend and extend taken up the torch from organisations complex public facing, public sector professionals.” that foreign investors and developers what it’s all about … I encourage you … We lost Miller’s Point, and we and unions such as the NSW Builders institutions.” Further, Scott added, “Part of have shown in the suburb. “This is to be strong, and to not give up the waged a good fight. Redfern Tent Labourers Federation (BLF) who have A University spokesperson my track record is the ability to lead going to be one house at a time, [the fight”. Embassy waged a good fight, but they historically undertaken the fight said “At a time when our sector large public-facing organisations government] stop renovating, they SRC Welfare Officer Lia Perkins are coming for the inner city, and we against development in inner Sydney. is facing significant challenges, through change, and to be stronger Mark is uniquely placed to lead us and more robust on the other side in responding to those challenges … I’ve worked extensively and led USyd casuals speak out during Senate inquiry by developing and implementing for 15 years organisations full of transformational strategies and intelligence knowledge workers, building coalitions of support.” highly creative and engaged in their into underpayment craft. My task is to support those Scott’s lack of academic practitioners to be as outstanding as experience — he does not hold Deaundre Espejo reports. they possibly can be.” a doctorate, and has never been n a public hearing this morning, An audit by the Casuals Network was made aware of consistent and There have also been reports employed as an academic — marks The new Vice-Chancellor’s pay a panel of academic staff from found that in the first six weeks of systematic underpayment of staff, of employees being blacklisted by a notable departure from the usual packet will be significantly reduced I Casualised, Unemployed, and last semester, 84% of participants including two reports by the National universities, but the presence of characteristics of a Vice-Chancellor. from that enjoyed by Michael Precarious University Workers performed work in excess of the hours Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), blacklists remains unconfirmed. Every other Group of Eight VC Spence. Scott will earn a maximum (CUPUW) provided evidence of wage for which they were paid, meaning the Casual Networks’ Stealing Time holds a doctorate, and previous VC of $1.15 million including bonuses, theft at universities for a Senate that underpayment averaged $2521 interim report, and recent coverage of Michael Spence was a world leading as compared to the $1.6 million Moving forward previously allocated to the Vice- inquiry into unlawful underpayment. per person. underpayment of library staff. Intellectual Property academic The Casuals Network recommended Chancellor. The inquiry commenced in “Because the university system Pointing to how employing staff before his appointment. that the piece rate system be abolished November, when underpayment rests on these piece rates with casual as casuals is cheaper than employing Kurt Iveson, University of Sydney The Sydney Morning Herald and replaced by a timesheet system, of casual staff across Australia’s staff, underpayment is embedded them permanently, Dr Doran said that NTEU Branch President, told Honi reported on Scott’s appointment half where staff enter actual hours worked universities were brought to light. within the system,” Dr Doran said. “for anyone to raise that [the University that “Scott has never worked in an hour before a University-wide and are paid for those hours. This is in Subsequently, ten universities made is] consistently underpaying casual a university, so staff will rightly press release was issued. “Our choice is: do our jobs line with most contracts that engage back payments and the University staff is to very much push at the heart poorly, harm our students and not be staff in research. of Sydney admitted to wage theft of employed again, or do our job well and of their entire financial model.” Dr Doran also implored the almost $9 million. Individual cases are work many hours unpaid.” “They know they underpay us. And University to consult with impacted currently being heard. if they did pay us correctly, they might staff in their audit. Last year, USyd Today’s sitting saw Dr Yaegan have to employ us permanently — that University denies large-scale engaged PriceWaterhouseCoopers Doran of the USyd Casuals Network is exactly what they don’t want to do.” Welfare Action Group holds speak-out wage theft (PwC) to audit staff payments. speak on the situation at the University However, he said that this was an Nandini Dhir reports. of Sydney. The University was criticised for failing to take action on several Casual staff punished for “untransparent” process that has Underpayment ‘embedded’ in he USyd Welfare Action Group $80 per day and it’s clearly evident Convenor of the Women’s Collective, exclusion, with SRC Education opportunities to address its problem speaking up not involved any consultation or university model Thosted a speak-out at midday on that the Liberal Government can Kimmy Dibben spoke on sexual Officer Madeleine Clark saying: of wage theft. Dr Doran told the Senate communication. In its submission, the USyd Casuals Wednesday outside Fisher Library. do it… and COVID is far from assault on campus, saying: “Welcome “We’re seeing our courses being cut, In the University’s submission to Committee that staff who have spoken “It’s not the type of thing that I Network asserted that underpayment Students congregated and stepped over,” Co-Welfare Officer Shreyaa Week is the most dangerous time on staff being paid less, and meanwhile the Senate inquiry last September, out about underpayment have had think will come up with a solution that is a result of casual staff being to the mic to share their thoughts on Sundararaghavan said. campus for students during which we have our Vice Chancellor being former Vice-Chancellor Dr Michael their hours reduced or eliminated. is anything but useful for University paid ‘piece rates.’ In this system, issues such as housing, sexual assault Perkins mentioned how the one in eight of sexual assaults on paid over 1.6 million dollars.” Spence denied that staff are subjected While noting that “it’s difficult to management.” payments are tied to a ‘piece’ of work on campus, disability exclusion and acquisition of land by property campus will occur… These colleges SRC Disabilities Officer Margot to “large scale wage theft,” or that link precisely that speaking up leads Other academics from CUPUW — for example, a number of lectures, welfare payments. developers, such as at a public are not safe for students, they are Beavon-Collin criticised Australian casualisation in tertiary education was to not being re-employed,” Dr Doran also made recommendations such hotbeds of sexual violence [and] tutorials, or assessments marked. SRC Co-Welfare Officer Lia housing auction in Glebe that day, Disability Enterprises as “institutions driving underpayment. recounted one particular incident as increasing funding to student and predatory behaviour.” The amount of time to complete Perkins, who organised the speak- decreases affordable and accessible that are allowed to pay employees Dr Spence claimed that instances where a casual staff member, an teaching unions to conduct more each piece is then estimated. However, out, opened the space with the housing for university students. “The fight for student welfare on significantly less than the minimum of underpayment were a result of international student and casual tutor independent research on wage theft, staff have reported that the actual focus on “fight[ing] for students, “Colleges are taking up valuable campus is necessarily the fight against wage, as low as about $2.48 an hour.” “payment errors” rather than under- at the University, was suddenly given introducing criminal penalties for hours it takes to complete these the unemployed and against the housing that should be affordable for the cultures of sexual assault and The Welfare Action Group will classification of work or excessive “no work whatsoever” after supporting employers that engage in wage theft, tasks, in order to maintain the quality injustices of the capitalist colonial all students,” said Owen Marsden- the financial precarity that survivors be supporting an education rally on underpaid hours. the Casual Network’s actions. As a and raising the rate of JobKeeper to face”, noted Alana Ramshaw. of education, far exceeds the hours result, that staff member — along with ensure that staff are able to leave state.” Readford. March 24th as the issue of welfare Dr Doran pointed to the several allotted, and that preparation time is their colleagues — refused to speak at abusive workplace conditions and still “The welfare rate should be at SRC Women’s Officer and The speak-out also covered issues cuts align closely with education instances where the University of education cuts and disability cuts. often not covered. the inquiry. put food on the table.

4 5 NEWS ANALYSIS Porter must go: Youth survivors speak out Climate action is the antidote to despair against sexual violence Zara Zadro imagines climate disaster and grief in a post- pandemic world arth emotions — that’s what mournful, or to simply turn off in the the relationship between the earth being from the universe [and] placing Alana Ramshaw reports. Eecologist and writer Glenn face of it all. and the psyche. them around the outskirts as equals n Friday afternoon, around 250 First Nations women, who are twice as to complete. They’re living with the under the Coalition government. Albrecht calls our collective It’s one morning in early March If this feeling has an origin, it must to microbes, cats, dogs, plants… Ostudents attended a snap rally likely to face sexual violence. O’Leary effects of trauma and unresolved “The government is due to, in July psychological responses to the when I talk to Chris Pryor, aged 74, lie in Indigenous peoples across the it’s a very radical challenge to our at Town Hall called by School Strike recounted the story of an unnamed harm, and it’s not good enough,” this year, cut 56.7 million dollars from impending climate disaster in his from my Sydney home. Her property world, and the atrocities committed ontology.” 4 Climate activist Danielle Villafaña. Indigenous woman and survivor: “She Hush noted. our services,” Zhang stated. 2017 book of the same title. In recent was charred when the Black Summer during the age of imperialism that And yet, we agree that the 2020 The rally demanded the firing of was abused every single day of her Villafaña called for those in The energy in the crowd shifted years, talk of these emotions has Fires tore through Kangaroo Valley remain with them, through systematic pandemic may already have exposed Attorney-General Christian Porter young life. She told me that the pain attendance to sign the petition started to heavy grief as Villafaña returned swamped our media landscape, with on January 4th, 2020. As someone oppression today. to humanity its vulnerability within following recent credible allegations never goes away…This story doesn’t by former Kambala student Chanel to the microphone. They delivered an new buzzwords attempting to capture who grew up in post-Blitz London, The myth that we are not the earth’s ecosystem. of sexual assault, and additionally need a name to resonate, this story Contos, demanding more adequate emotional and empassioned account their magnitude. Some of these she describes her 25 hectare- home entangled with nature, maintaining “What we were looking at was called for the sacking of Defence is shared by so many Blak and First sex and consent education in schools. of their own sexual assault to an include “eco-anxiety,” “climate grief,” on Tallowa Dam Road as a “little a ‘safe’ distance in our glass-and- COVID-19 is the same phenomenon, Minister Linda Reynolds. Nations women, this story needs to be The petition has now garnered over audience struggling to hold back “solastalgia,” and “pre-traumatic paradise” where the “wildlife was like concrete urban fortresses, is one of because what we realize is that The rally heard many testimonies heard.” 20,000 signatures. tears. stress disorder.” extended family.” imperialist-capitalist-patriarchy’s microbes are more powerful than from survivors of sexual violence. “Universities are coming up with all these nice “I hope that one day, girls like me University of Sydney Associate “We had been in drought for a biggest lies. That is why apocalyptic humans, right?” Paul says. Shanaya Donovan, a seventeen year- are no longer going to have to walk Professor of Psychology Paul Rhodes long time,” she says, describing the scenes often feature pillaged buildings Similarly, Australian scientist Tim old Dharug woman who chaired the slogans about equality and about respect but home with their keys in their hands, believes none of them quite sum it up. lead-up to the bushfires. “Noticeably and fires burning in shop windows; Flannery also argues that Australia’s rally alongside Villafaña, spoke on ultimately nothing is ever changed.” and know that there are people who “I prefer old school existentialist in the second half of 2019, when you even if you support climate action, national response to COVID-19 is her personal experience of sexual believe them and trust them. I hope dread,” he says. went outside and walked on the grass and understand the scale of climate evidence that we are also capable harassment and argued for better The protest also highlighted the Greens MP Jenny Leong addressed that if you are a survivor here today, Whatever the case, this feeling is it crackled. It had no moisture… It was emergency, the reality of its impacts of similar, science-lead, nationally- protections for vulnerable women and ongoing fight for reform on university the recent revelations of sexual whether or not you reported, you at an all time high. In late 2019, the frightening, it really was frightening.” remain fictive for the urbanised mobilising political action against girls: “Today, seventeen year old me is campuses. Anna Hush, co-director of assault against Christian Porter, know that I believe you. So many of Australian Medical Association joined Chris is warm, resilient, and an majority, cushioned by fairytales of its climate change, in his 2019 book The standing here, urging you to step in End Rape on Campus Australia and saying: “We say, Christian Porter, we us believe you, and we know that the health organisations around the excellent speaker. Losing her house slowness and its remoteness. Climate Cure. and protect the young girl with her 2016 SRC Womens Officer, pointed don’t believe you. We do not believe system is fighting against you, but we world in recognising climate change Indeed, climate action is more school skirt all the way down to her out the lack of justice for survivors on you because you are a very slimy and are going to bring that system down,” as a health emergency. But that was important than ever, with 2021 ankles, because she can’t do anything campus. conniving man that knows how to Villafaña proclaimed. before a global pandemic dwarfed marking one of the final years for about it. Do it for the young girl who “Universities are coming up with spin shit to try to stay in power and The rally concluded with a march climate change in the playing field humanity to avert the more disastrous is walking down the street getting all these nice slogans about equality protect your own arse.” to the NSW Liberal headquarters of existential threats and political effects of warming. harassed by men, because she can’t and about respect but ultimately Additionally, Feiyi Zhang, a on William St. Teenagers left chalk priorities. The Glasgow 2021 Global But apocalyptic thinking can be do anything about it.” nothing is ever changed. The effect community sector worker and messages on the footpath, including Climate Meeting, which was to address paralysing, and therefore unhelpful in Erin O’Leary, a young Dhungutti on survivors is that they’re dropping member of the Australian Services one which they left the rally chanting the major shortcomings of current mitigating disaster. “You have to draw woman and student activist, out of university with more debt, with Union, spoke on the cuts faced by with conviction: “We’ll be back”. emissions reduction strategies in that fine line between denialism and highlighted the sexual abuse faced by degrees they were never supported domestic and family violence services meeting Paris 2015 targets, has apocalyptic thinking and go down the been delayed by an entire year due middle, stay with the trouble, start to to COVID travel restrictions. School act,” says Paul. NUS, Myanmar students protest coup strikes that attracted 300,000 people The only way to deal with “the in Australia alone have been culled dread and the pain” is to embrace Alexandre Douglas reports. by pandemic restrictions. And despite it. “You can’t just feel the pain and Australia’s reduction in greenhouse go, Oh, that’s awful...give me some n Sunday, the Myanmar Students than you or I who don’t know if it will coup in Myanmar isn’t an isolated “Uncle they’re shooting at us,” one gas emissions in 2020, particularly counseling. The end product is O Association Australia (MSAA), be their last day.” incident” but instead one of many message read. from transport and agricultural activism.” the National Union of Students (NUS) Green State MP Jamie Parker under an “international system that “Let our children go!”he chanted, sectors, most of the damage is likely Chris Pryor is also convinced that and Next Gen Myanmar (NGM) held expressed the same frustration: benefits everyone who puts profits and the crowd followed. to be redone in the recovery from “action is the antidote to despair.” nationwide protests condemning the “We’ve seen this way too many times.” above the wellbeing of people.” Faber A minute of silence was held at Covid-19, according to a recent audit She is the President of the Friends atrocities committed by the Myanmar “Fifty-five million people whose gave the example of the Adani group, 12:39 to commemorate the “Fallen of national climate data by Hugh of the Brush-tail Rock Wallaby, who military junta. future has been stolen. Fifty-five which has links with the junta. Heroes”; protesters who have been Sadler of the ANU’s Crawford School protect the habitats of the severely In Sydney, protestors congregated million people whose freedom Steven Han then read out a killed by the Junta. After which the of Public Policy. endangered subspecies. She is also at Town Hall. Steven Han, a protest has been stolen,” he emphatically statement written by a youth in song “We are the World” was rousingly Nonetheless, emotional responses enthusiastic about a revolution, leader at MSAA, pointed out the repeated. Myanmar: “My name is Daniel… One performed. to climate change must be addressed involving re-introducing Indigenous ridiculousness of being “worried “Yet still, Australia does not day we were students doing TikTok. No march was held due to extreme just as much as economic ones, practices like cultural burning to about rain” while protestors in recognise this military regime as The next we were fighting for our weather and COVID-19 restrictions. because the reality is it will get worse combat wildfires. Myanmar face “raining bullets.” illegitimate,” Parker said. independence and vote…We’re alive At the end of the protest, Cookies — much worse. When I ask Chris where she is now, COVID-19 marshals handed out He also noted that “Australian today, but not sure about tomorrow.” made by volunteers were handed out As a key example, the 2019-20 she tells me is sitting in her granny masks, distributed hand sanitiser, businesses are currently operating Han then emotionally told those to those who came, an act which Htwe bushfire season in New South Wales flat in Kangaroo Valley — a temporary registered attendees and made sure in Burma (Myanmar) and children of at the rally how he has received text called the “most wholesome thing and parts of Victoria began almost four and material belongings is a “small Paul Kingsnorth puts it well in home for now. One of her two cats, social distancing measures were several coup leaders are studying at messages from student protesters in ever.” months earlier than it did in the 1950s, sadness” she says. But when I ask her his 2017 Orion essay, ‘Dark Ecology’: whom she evacuated with, is clawing enforced.The protest began with the Australian universities.” Myanmar who refer to him as “Uncle.” and burned 21% of all Australian to describe the loss of the wildlife, she “Civilization has always been a at the phone. chant: “Hey hey! Ho ho! The Myanmar Ei Htwe, a spokesperson for the forests. A Health Issues Centre survey cannot put it into words. project of control, but you can’t win a Her current home is owned by coup has got to go!” NGM, then made several demands of of teens and young people shows “There was no wind, so there war against the wild within yourself.” a young family, with lots of farm Ehmwee Lwin, president of NGM, the Australian government, including 36% listed “mental health” as the key were no rustling leaves. There were Paul Rhodes suggests that Western animals and green space. then acknowledged the traditional the condemnation of military force impact they suffered from following no leaves to rustle anyway…. It was psychology is not equipped to “I feel blessed that I am here owners of the land, the Gadigal people and the deployment of financial and coverage of the unfolding fires, with like being on the moon,” she says, understand the mental health impacts in Kangaroo Valley,” she says, of the Eora nation. medical assistance. a further 28% describing the future describing returning to home days of climate change. “nevermind that I lost my house… Shen then drew attention to the She also called for the U.N. to in apocalyptic terms. In the same after it was scorched. “There was just “[This is]... because traditional this is my place.” traditional dress she was wearing: “I convene an emergency meeting year, the federal government poured nothing. Nothing that was living, psychology pathologises the I get a feeling that, despite the wear this dress today to symbolise the to respond to the situation, the $76 million into distress counselling except me and Mike.” individual, and says it’s mummy and fact I have never been to Kangaroo seventy three years of genocide” of establishment of a global arms and mental health support for those There is a word to describe the daddy’s fault.” Valley, our places — hers, mine and the Muslim Rohingya people. embargo, and to bring the perpetrators involved in the bushfires. heart-wrenching loss of one’s home Rhodes’ work has included all of ours on earth — are perhaps not Recounting her father’s to justice through the international These are the current effects of while one is still there. “Solastalgia,” ethnographic research into individual that different at all. If the grief for experiences, who was arrested and justice system. around 1C of warming. The world is coined by Allbrecht, is “tied to the experiences of the 2019- 20 bushfires. our homes isn’t reason enough for brutally beaten by the Myanmar Speaking of her own experience, expected to breach the ‘safe’ warming gradual erosion of identity created by In part, this uses “affect theory,” collective action then nothing else police when he was just twenty-two Htwe said she has found it “incredibly ceiling of 1.5C within 12 years or less, the sense of belonging to a particular a framework for understanding will be. years old, she reflected on how “the hard to carry on a normal life” whilst exposing it to the more dangerous loved place, and a feeling of distress, preconscious, collective “currents oppression of ethnics” has long been others “are being tortured, kidnapped echelons of 3C of warming by the end or psychological desolation, about of feeling” that are socially and denied attention. and murdered in broad daylight.” of the century. And those numbers are its unwanted transformation.” This politically influenced. “Please help us raise awareness,” Felix Faber, education VP with the still a best case scenario. underlies so-called “psychoterratic” He suggests change is “distressing Art by Janina Osinsao she pleaded, “for the kids no older NUS NSW state branch, said how “the It is hard not to feel anxious, theory, where health is dictated by as it involves dislodging the human

6 7 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS Notes on disurbanism Love, labour and linearity Deaundre Espejo revisits an abandoned vision to tear down the city. Jessica Zhan grapples with the big questions of what makes us happy. or as long as I can remember, there degree, in the cultures of the Business Rather, I was happier when my friends so why would they? In our present- hen the Soviet Union expanded its and only bring palliative solutions and once they matured, would have the Fare two things which I have been and Law Schools, except now the goal and I received poor grades and we day transactional culture, seemingly Windustrialisation policies, masses if we continue on beaten paths,” he right to dissociate themselves from their sure of: firstly, that life is uncertain; was employment at a certain company would comfort each other, share our dominated by cost-benefit analyses of people poured into cities from the argued. Therefore, Ginzburg proposed biological family. By dissolving family and secondly, that the one certainty in or a position in a society. I felt like resentment on the harsh marking and motivated by a race to the top, countryside to find work. Between 1926 three radical measures: ban all new life, towns would account for new life is death. My acute awareness of my people would project images of success criteria, and joke about how our life giving love is not only demanding, but and 1932, it is estimated that the urban construction in Moscow; move all public communal spaces including dining finitude naturally set in motion larger and prestige and defend it at all costs, is now ruined and no company would dangerous. population grew from around 26 million enterprises away from the city; and halls, laundromats, and boarding questions about how we measure a where certain relationships could ever hire us. The thing we tend to forget is that to 38.7 million. But as production grew relocate the Moscow population along the schools. good life amidst this uncertainty, become increasingly transactional and I soon realised that happiness was love is not finite. It’s not something drastically, living conditions declined. roads linking the city to the countryside. While the vision for questions which sometimes recur for a tournament of status. no longer a linear concept. It’s not we can necessarily place a value on, Overcrowding in cities meant that Moscow would then be turned into a park, a post-city society was me like the oscillations of a pendulum. There was a certain level of delayed like how you’re told — that if you can or that should be given when we are workers were forced to live in unsanitary becoming the Green City itself. concrete, nothing like it I think I subconsciously set about gratification as well — you would think simply get through a degree and find a guaranteed of its reciprocity. You don’t conditions — in tents, underground Ginzburg’s proposal embraced the was ever achieved. The answering these questions from a these achievements are useful not high-paying corporate job, happiness need to be shown love first in order dwellings, and makeshift homes. At the design theory of “disurbanism.” Led by disurbanists’ vision of young age. As a ten-year-old, my necessarily because they make you would soon follow after. Happiness to love something or someone else, sight of this housing crisis, it was clear constructivist theorists such as Mikhail completely transforming favourite books were the My Story happier in the moment, but because is not a steady stream of water which which takes a degree of vulnerability that new planning approaches to the city Okhitovich, disurbanists moved towards a human settlements within series. Though I now realise the stories it sets you up for future success, often naturally flows out after you put and courage. It is that eternal and were needed. critique of the city itself, believing that its just a couple of years were fictional, I felt like I was entering narrowly defined as financial stability, enough effort into turning the tap. revolutionary force which governs the In the search for a new city plan, the defects were so grave that they couldn’t was ambitious to say the minds of characters who were or inculcates you against misery. I’ve realised that a good life is stars of our interior lives. ‘Green City’ competition was announced be remedied by simply changing urban the least. Indeed, Stalin trying to answer those same questions Looking back, I realise that my driven by love. Not necessarily grand, Indeed, a lot of modern-day in 1930. It challenged architects to design design. They believed that the city was dismissed the proposals as of how to live. beliefs were a result of continually sweeping displays of love, but in motivations for activism are based a short-term vacation resort connected to created in the interests of the ruling class: utopian experiments that could be The most poignant character was internalising other people’s values and seemingly insignificant moments around love for not just ourselves, Moscow by train line, which would house industry and services concentrated in one economically crippling, and given the young Marie Antoinette, a fourteen- expectations of how I should define when I feel present and content — like but for others. Authors like Rebecca up to 100,000 people and provide a range place to increase productivity and profit- technological and material limitations year-old girl launched into the and pursue happiness. Not knowing when my dad celebrates wildly when Solnit express how those who fight of recreational and cultural activities. gain, leading to inhumane population at the time, the disurbanist city may Once the Green City was constructed, not densities that forced workers into well have been impossible. The Soviet treacherous, extravagant spectacle any better, I conformed to these we watch sport on the TV, or when for social change often have a deep that was politics and royalty. She expectations – I aimed hopelessly to my friends’ faces crinkle into laughter love for nature and humanity which only would it mitigate the poor health poor working and living conditions. As Union reverted to classical urbanism, service was the envy of France, but secretly be loveable to the world around me, over the silliest things. I think that motivates them to fight for oppressed of workers in Moscow, it would also be a Okhitovich writes: “The city must perish building hyper-centralist cities with domains rather than industrial hubs, the aspired for a far-off dream of simple refusing to accept that the world’s it’s the fact of having people who will communities. In a way, they are model for future urban development. on the ruins of the capitalist relations grand boulevards and mass-produced defects of urbanisation persist. Because happiness. In many ways, her story goodness was not a contradiction, provide you with unwavering support showing a kind of love which is rooted Many leading Soviet architects, who of production … As these prerequisites towers not unlike those of today. these plans have survived, we can look were long preoccupied with the question vanish, the city itself vanishes as their Nonetheless, the abandoned back on them as testaments to a society led me to believe that the path to nor a threat to my own. I struggled when it matters most – and with them, in justice and righteousness, a kind disurbanist dream highlights ongoing that could have been, and with enough happiness was uncomplicated. to independently pursue meaning you never need or want more. which is not often shown to the people conflicts in modern urban society; the imagination, visions of the future. My perception of happiness without the approval of others. Unfortunately, experiencing and and causes they fight for. alienation of the rural working class; developed when I reached adolescence. It was not until recently that I fully giving this type of love freely goes Now, as I look back to my earliest humanity’s need to reconnect with nature; Art source: Modern Architecture A selective school student born to grasped that flaw in logic. I think that against a lot of our social norms of days, remembering how Marie the yearning for community one one hand immigrant parents, I was submerged came through a culmination of factors: individualism and competition. It is Antoinette gazed out of the Palace and the need for individual space on the in a world of unrealistic expectations. I had achieved relative success in my hard to love something or someone, of Versailles wanting a simpler other. While our cities have now become Academic achievement was placed on academic life — marks which gave me because it means that you have to life, I understand that wealth and a pedestal, and it was as if achieving freedom to choose my degree — and surrender your ego and give yourself achievement can be someone’s sources a certain ATAR or being accepted into in my working life, where I was made wholly to it. During my first year of contentment, but they’re not mine. a certain degree was the crowning a project manager at my company. But of university, I was told that it was My source of contentment was always accomplishment. Not only would I be when it was all said and done, there necessary to take advantage of others there, in the company of those I loved. able to prove to myself that I was more was no wave of relief which washed to succeed in the corporate world. I had just been concentrating too much exceptional than others, but I would be over me. As I embarked on what was I was told that no person in the on other things to realise it. proving to my parents that moving to a sold to me as a ‘prestigious’ journey, working world has your best interests Miliutin’s auto plant proposal. 2021 STUDENT foreign country for me was not in vain. one in which pure achievement would at heart. They wouldn’t gain anything This was reinforced in my past be rewarded, I never felt complete. from it, and it wouldn’t be rational, of how the new ‘Socialist City’ could product.” avoid the ills of urbanisation — dirt, Therefore, dispersing infrastructure overcrowding, and exploitation — seized across the land and abolishing cities YEAR PLANNER the opportunity to participate. Konstantin would be the best way to improve living Veganism and the capitalist touch Melnikov, for example, envisioned conditions for all workers. They imagined We are now out of printed stocks of the A1 planner, but if you missed a circular Green City with gardens, linear ‘cities’ which combined residential, out you can download a Semester 1 PDF version from our website! Amelia Koen explores the link between vegan culture and consumerism. recreation halls, libraries and restaurants industrial and green zones in ribbons Head to: srcusyd.net.au/src-help/src-annual-wall-planner/ cross the last decade, a once meat substitutes. consumers to diverge from highly society deems desirable in that moment, enclosed by a ring of highways, as along railway lines, so that all aspects of Atransgressive and eyebrow- It is important to note that veganism profitable pillars of agribusiness, such and through these capitalist tendencies, well as sleeping quarters located daily life — living areas, amenities, work, raising word — ‘vegan’ — has become is not a modern Western advent. Despite as the meat and dairy industries. The veganism has become a desirable image in a forest. and open space — were located within synonymous with luxury diet the term being explicitly coined in result is the creation of a vegan lifestyle to be sold. But one architect, Moisei walking distance. culture. This transformation from 1944, trends of animal meat avoidance that appears to be dependent on highly Ultimately, what was once a little- Ginzburg, with the help By eliminating the divide between inconsequential diet to famed lifestyle and abstention can be traced back to expensive substitutes. Unfortunately, known, subversive dietary preference, of his student Mikhail urban and rural, forcing factory workers has been created through capitalist ancient Indian, Greek and Eastern the inaccessibility of meat and dairy has been repackaged and sold to us as Barshch, went further and farmers to live and dine together, mechanisms, with of course the intent Mediterranean societies, pre-capitalism. substitutes contributes to the myth that a sought after lifestyle which carries and proposed the it sought to remove the inequalities of to sell. To think of veganism today is to This history teaches us that veganism veganism is inherently more expensive connotations of wealth, success, and transformation of all bourgeois society, and to bring the reality associate it with a privileged lifestyle doesn’t have to be inaccessible; these than eating a carnivorous diet. While for eliteness. In these ways, it projects the human settlement in of industrial and agricultural production which extends beyond abstaining from barriers of inaccessibility were created many years, substitutes were expensive image of a perfect, unattainable person the Soviet Union. to the forefront of people’s minds. who we chase to become but cannot “The Green Linear cities would improve efficiency of animal products, but rather brings to by modern commercialisation. Across because there was very low demand, in Cities will eat production by bringing industry as close SEMESTER 1 mind an image of an idealised way of the twentieth century, commercial recent years that have seen a boom in catch, allowing the cycle of consumerism up additional as possible to natural resources, and by PRINTABLE living. This image is a direct proponent plant-based alternatives were by no veganism’s popularity, there are more to continue. It is critical to see that the millions being arranged according to the natural of how veganism has been sold to us. means non-existent, but there was vegan options than ever; yet prices landscape of being vegan in the 21st flow of production. Okhitovich described VERSION NOW The capitalist market has an affinity not the same market abundance and remain high. If the greed of capitalism century does not place everyone on equal this as conveyor belt production on a AVAILABLE! for creating new and lavish lifestyles brand competition we see today. When is allowed to dictate the accessibility of footing. The ways in which vegan culture nationwide scale. out of any trend that is popular and the Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing veganism, prices will never be lowered often perpetuates the idea of universal Disurbanists also aimed to downscale has the potential to be transgressive. Company was founded in 1898, it began to match higher demand, and new vegan ability to go vegan blatantly ignores families, building off Engel’s idea that Take fitness, and the expensive lifestyle producing some vegetarian products, products will continue to be introduced not only specific health conditions and within a capitalist society, the family that comes with it: gym memberships, but no other significant meat-alternative to the market at these exorbitant prices. economic situations, but it ignores the unit created the basic framework for trendy work-out clothes, protein shakes, company was globalised until Linda The trend of animal-product extent to which animal-products are the exploitation of women and children specialised sports shoes, and so on. McCartney Foods in 1991, along with substitutes has now become integral to built into modern life. The consumer by men. Accordingly, they envisioned These things are not requirements to several others developing in the 90s. the diet’s identity. This in turn drives should not be blamed for the horrors that people would live in lightweight, become fit; they are, however, required It has taken nearly a century for the community’s relentless search for that capitalism endows on society as individual pods that could be freely to take part in the lifestyle of fitness veganism to break into the mainstream the latest vegan products — I relate to a collective, where only fundamental joined or dismounted. Sliding partitions as a culture. It is in this same way that by a significant enough margin that the excitement — but I know that this systematic change is capable of forging /usydsrc could be opened to allow couples to Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney veganism has become twisted into a capitalism has taken it on to generate excitement is rooted in the consumerism a better world free from corporate greed. Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01), p: 02 9660 5222 src_sydneyuni be together, and in cases of divorce, University of Sydney NSW 2006 e: [email protected] commercialised culture monster, hell- profit, desperately needing to ensure that is hard-wired into us by capitalist doors could be shut again. Children PO Box 794 Broadway NSW 2007 w: srcusyd.net.au @src_usyd bent on selling us things we don’t that it feeds back into systems of society. Aided by a sickly materialism, we would be sent to boarding schools actually need to be vegan — dairy and capital because veganism encourages feel an urge to spend money on whatever

8 9 PERSPECTIVE OPINION Oh what a lovely precious dream it is to be queer, Don’t just sign a petition: stop being friends with gifted and fat rapists Isabel Freudenstein decries Australia’s epidemic of shallow gestures. Oscar Chaffey dreams of a world without shame. he recent petition, started by Our current perception of the individual raped is objectified, a more than just an education overhaul. f I close my eyes, breathe deeply and TChanel Contos, has generated sexuality is the by-product of at least means to an end, “rather than an end There needs to be cultural change, Iextract myself from the corporeal 31,00 signatures over two weeks. It 2,500 years within which “sexual to themselves…precluding the person starting with people being willing world I can — just for a moment — shares the graphic, personal stories values…have favoured the male… from moral concern.” It is this culture, to call each other out. We all need imagine that I am eleven. I am a of over 2900 survivors of sexual and repressed the sexual rights and where friends mistreat each other, to know what is permissible and assault, and names a wealth of NSW expressions of women.” Particularly that leads to the use of young sexual what isn’t. There can be no reliance storybook kid from the sleepy white and Victorian private schools. Most when combined with the rising experimentation and ignorance as an on structural change or waiting for middle class: a sporty state gymnast recently, a second petition targeting culture of narcissism and hedonism, excuse for sexual assault. the legal system to hold assaulters who plays musical instruments, parliament, has again gone viral. female sexuality being defined in There is no ‘how-to’ guide accountable, particularly when only reads fantasy books and does well in It’s causing a conversation and relation to the masculine has taught the gifted class. I am unbelievably, generating important changes in the “us to demand and expect instant The statistics are dire, and the lived experiences unimaginably happy. It quickly sexual education of students. You gratification at the same time that it becomes too painful to conjure as know what it isn’t doing? Creating makes satisfaction impossible.” The are even worse. 1 in 6 women experience sexual I imagine how adolescence would accountability. ongoing ‘illicit’ nature of sexuality assault, and of those, 8 out of 10 cases are forever destroy that naive, trusting The statistics are dire, and the discourages open dialogue around boy. lived experiences are even worse. 1 in sex, and contributes to the lack of perpetrated by someone known to the victim. First, he realises that the bodies 6 women experience sexual assault, education around pleasure. This and of those, 8 out of 10 cases are encourages a culture that sees sex to approach being assaulted by 2 out of every 5 accused rapists are of other boys are far more interesting perpetrated by someone known to the as a prize to be won, and something someone you know. There is no convicted in Australia. than they should be and learns that victim. Stories in Chantel’s petition to be done to another person, rather easy way to report it, to own it, to As the petition gains traction this must be concealed at all costs. support these statistics. They describe than an intersubjective experience hold them accountable. One of the and the conversation continues to Next, his own body starts to mature the grey area of feeling unsure as to between two people. biggest contributors to this silence dominate, it’s important to recognise into that of a stocky, broad-shouldered whether you have been assaulted As individuals, this impacts our and self-denial is this context in the significance of actively living six foot man; this ends his gymnastics because the acts are committed by lives as we are discouraged from which, unfortunately, sex is unable our principles. It’s easy to share an career unceremoniously. He fails to people considered friends. Worse still violating any norms due to the to be divorced from social realities. If Instagram post or sign a petition. perform acceptable masculinity in are the statistics of how few rapes go threat of social disapproval. This ‘everyone’ has a story similar to the But how, in our day to day lives, are an all-male school and is relentlessly reported. In a 2020 government report, plays out every time an assault ones shared in Chantel’s petition, we actively supporting our friends? bullied; he learns to cope by sitting it was revealed that of the women who isn’t reported, or is dismissed by that means that everyone also has Do you still invite your mate, who under a blanket alone and eating have been sexually assaulted over the peers. When someone is told that a friend who lived through it. It also everyone knows gets a little too last ten years, 87% didn’t contact the avoiding sexual assault is their own means we all know people who have touchy on the piss, out for drinks? Do comfort food. He withdraws from police. This is in part, due to the lack responsibility, and that cases can be perpetrated crimes similar to those you still see your friends’ rapists for trying in school or sport. He stops is its codification in terms like ‘twink’, by gender diverse people of colour. circles that have enshrined norms like of knowledge around consent and stopped by managing how much one in the personal testimonies, probably fear of social groups unravelling? Do reading, maintains few friends, is ‘twunk’, ‘bear’ and ‘otter’. I have Despite this supposed progress in pronoun rounds still regard gaining what constitutes assault. It’s also, in drinks, what they wear, or who they even unbeknownst to the assaulters. you still put your friends in situations deeply unhappy and blames himself. always felt alienated and marginalised queer representation, a plus size weight as a shameful admission larger part, due to the cultural norms know, it contributes to the feelings To really tackle Australia’s sexual where they have to hang out with In the three years I’ve been at by these terms, the betrayal by other queen has never won any of the couched in moralism about laziness. that govern our relationships. of guilt and shame. In our context, assault problem, there needs to be their rapist? university I have sought, with only queer people stinging more than the show’s iterations, in which they are Radical left wing politics, at its best, partial success, to heal his wounds. straight people I eventually learned usually represented as untalented, is a subversive spotlight. Fatphobia, I have become a fully realised to distrust. These casual labels are bitchy or both. I am filled with terrible like homophobia, sexism and racism homosexual who convenes the Queer applied flexibly but usually with a bitterness when someone points out is an oppressive assumption that Her world against his Action Collective and does drag at common purpose - to punish and this supposed ‘progress’ to me. This capitalism makes to sustain economic Genevieve Couvret takes on the “he said, she said” sexual assault discourse. Mardi Gras. I have surrounded myself humiliate those outside of fatphobic ‘progress’ has never made space for and social hierarchies; we must expose with friends and family who offer masculine beauty norms. Sometimes I people with bodies like mine and has this and undermine it. Virtually no n the past week, against the denies the tremendous burden on a incorrectly. This reflects a key issue ‘misunderstanding,’ a flirtation, or a me explicit, unconditional support. am a disgusting fat bear, other times consistently pushed them down to conversations are had about the Ibackdrop of a national conversation woman’s personal life, mental health, within our rape culture, especially compliment rather than at best deeply I have fallen back in love with words I’m too feminine and I can quickly uplift thin queer people. political origins of fatphobia, among about consent, the historic rape and career prospects to identify herself concerning assaults in the context discomfiting and incredibly damaging Queer youth are usually told that them colonialism and racism. This allegation against Attorney-General as a victim of trauma, to potentially of dating, relationships or between behaviour. New York Mayor Andrew Virtually no conversations are had in order to actualise themselves they urgently needs to change. Fat bodies Christian Porter and Brittany Higgins’ antagonise often well-established people who know one another. Men Cuomo has levelled such arguments must come out, perform pride in their must be liberated and to do so we allegation of rape in Parliament House institutions (a corporate workplace, relate to and remember their sexual in relation to sexual allegations made have been splayed across the media. Parliament House, a private boys’ experiences differently from the against him in the last fortnight. about the political origins of fatphobia, identity and accept that they cannot must identify, question and promote In response to allegations of sexual school) and to make it clear in a man’s women they have assaulted. This Additionally, there is evidence among them colonialism and racism. change who they are. Fat youth are sedition against the colonial system assault, particularly those unreported world that she will not stay silent. is not because victims change their that many men accused of assault This urgently needs to change. told the opposite: their bodies are of beauty in which we are engrained. or that do not meet evidentiary or Suppose we accept that women do not minds or ‘regret it’ afterwards, but don’t identify themselves within the result of gluttony and are hence My laptop screensaver is a strange criminal thresholds, a specific claim level these accusations because they because perpetrators don’t consider the traditional characterisation of a unacceptable. To win acceptance picture. It is a picture of my four year often emerges. This is the idea that have ulterior motives or ‘something their experience through the lens violent, malicious rapist. Many young and with gymnastics, but not, as yet, become an annoying twink who makes from society they must undergo old self on my first day of school. believing women without evidence to gain’ outside of justice, catharsis, of a woman’s consent, comfort or men who may disrespect women myself. my whole personality about being gay. rigorous physical changes in order to I have a bucket hat on my head, a sets a dangerous precedent that and all they rightfully deserve. In pleasure. There are obvious nuances in more unconscious, casual ways Living in a body that is queer and Either way I am undesirable. conform and be taken seriously. It is sparkly turtle tattoo on my cheek and anyone can say anything about that case, we must also accept it is based on the nature and severity of — from objectification to disregard plus size is a tremendous humiliation In saying this, the world has unimportant to fatphobes that this is a joyful smile from ear to ear. The best anyone. unintuitive that a woman would make each assault which this recognition for personal space — scarcely offer that is neither sufficiently discussed improved drastically for some queer virtually impossible, not to mention way you can tell it’s me is the big, kind You hear it in the back of your something like this up for the fun of it. should never undermine. At the very themselves or their peers up to the nor appreciated. Today, aged twenty, people in the last few decades. For incredibly harmful. Medical consensus eyes that have carried through with mind, you say it in front of the press This is irrational, unfair, and suggests least, this reflects the importance of idea of being capable of being a rapist. pool, you turn it over in your mind at malice on an alleged victim’s part, comprehensive consent education Between the perception of the it is the greatest issue in my life. some time now, a preoccupation of holds that the vast majority of dieters me to adulthood. You see, while my The queer community, especially the every sharp headline — now anyone which is less plausible than the malice and continuing the conversation. word rapist and its reality lies the the gay rights movement has been fail to maintain long term weight loss, political diagnosis is resolute, I know can make a baseless accusation about imputed to the accused perpetrator, That’s why you don’t believe her, or problem. Citing attitudes or actions subset that grew up as men, amplifies assimilation with and ‘acceptance’ that rapid weight loss and regain can that tomorrow I will still grimace at you. Outside the walls of Parliament whose innocence we are expected to that’s what you mean when you say that as unconscious should never excuse social injustices prominently from heteronormative society. be more unhealthy than remaining my fading adolescent stretch marks House and into the halls of every high presume. you don’t. You don’t believe how she the profound damage that they have. including fatphobia. Gay men are ten In this new social equation, thin overweight and that moderate, slow and pull at my shirt in the hopes those school, college, workplace and house I believe there is something far felt, how she could have felt that way, Identifying what it means when men times more likely to have an eating cisgender gay men, the apex of weight loss can produce major health around me don’t realise that I am fat. party are the projections of men who more pervasive and pernicious in the because that’s not what it was like for fear baseless accusations speaks to disorder and report dissatisfaction intersectional privilege in the queer benefits. I will still reflexively hate photos fear that women they’ve slept with, or minds of young men which belies you. But it’s neither for you nor me, nor a narrower truth about how they with their bodies. In many senses, community, have easily been able to Despite this obvious contradiction, taken of me. I’ve saved this photo even ones they haven’t, can and will the claim that women who make anyone except the survivor, to decide. perceive sex. This truth exists outside this is predictable: queer men are able trade conventional attractiveness queer fat youth are taught to be less in the hopes that someday I can be say something about them. But what such accusations may not be telling The male perspective is the structures and preconceptions to weaponise the male gaze against for the social currency of acceptance ashamed of being queer and more that carefree again and see myself as are you actually afraid of? the truth. The fear from which it foregrounded in representations embedded in our culture, and doesn’t others and against themselves to and validation. This development ashamed of their weight. The most inherently, naively beautiful. The idea that women are stems is more complex than simply of sex, cultural conditioning, and in any way mean that they shouldn’t incentivised to fabricate an instance not believing women. If you follow even criminal standards, which know better. But it should enliven punish overweight people more has been obvious in recent years surprising thing to me is that many of viciously than even cisgender, of assault and victimisation is tired the thread of logic far enough, what are based on a legal conception of us to understand that the root of the as RuPaul’s Drag Race has exposed the people who consider themselves and should quickly be discarded. The it invariably comes down to is that reasonableness and are the product problem is so deep within us that heterosexual counterparts. straight audiences to the narratives of politically woke and fluent in the notion that a victim has something women making these allegations of an inherently patriarchal system. it takes more than the promise or The culture of body shaming marginalised queer people that play language of university identity to gain from media attention (which are less likely to be considered to be These same narratives manifest across expectation of doing better to make amongst queer men is well known, as out in a culture that was pioneered politics hold this belief. The same Art by Bonnie Huang is certainly outside the scope of making things up entirely, but much the spectrum of sexism. Women are it so. arguments surrounding Porter, given more likely to be perceived as having blamed for not being able to laugh off the alleged victim’s death) completely remembered their own experience sexist jokes. Sexual harassment is a

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Chuyi Wang mourns the loss of an icon.

hen speaking of favourite synthesiser company. Throughout her world’s biggest pop-stars and hip-hop album’s title is, in fact, an almost- W artists, I often tend towards career, SOPHIE employed the Elektron artists – Madonna, Rhianna, Charli homophone for the phrase “I love hyperbole to convey my excitement Monomachine almost exclusively XCX, Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples every person’s insides’. and passion towards their music. as her creative tool of choice: an – and the most cult, underground A truly unique artist probably Most times, the overstatement is early 2000s groovebox that, for the producers like Jimmy Edgar and Doss. only comes around a few times not entirely warranted – perhaps the most part, was considered fairly Analysing her broader cultural every decade. And when these artists more I deify the creative figure, the impenetrable and difficult to operate. influence, her indelible thumbprint disappear from our lives, it’s so easy more likely my friends will be to check By 2013, the Monomachine was more on production characteristics is to spiral into unqualified and doomed them out. With that being said, I am or less a long-forgotten memory for difficult to miss: a fervent embrace mourning. No one could disagree not exaggerating at all when I say that most producers; its most famous of experimental sounds in pop that SOPHIE was just getting started, the first time I heard BIPP, the A-Side cameo was its presence on early instrumentals, the re-popularisation that she had so much left to do: her of SOPHIE’s sophomore single, it felt Autechre records and its most famous of complex synthesis techniques most recent large-scale release, the as if the horizons of sound had been feature being able to sound like early like Frequency Modulation, a trend HEAV3N SUSPENDED livestream, set on fire. Autechre records. towards more artificial and clinically- set from late 2020, opened a window 2013 was a strange time for The thread opens innocently clean timbres and textures, and to a rawer, more minimal shade of commercial electronic music. It enough. With reference to the track a refreshing new perspective on production that promised big things was only a couple of years after L.O.V.E., user Mnroe asks: “How do techniques considered deeply ‘uncool’ to come. But when I think back over Skrillex’s seminal Scary Monsters and I get her glassy and polished high like extreme autotune, chipmunk- SOPHIE’s tragically brief career, it is Nice Sprites EP, and everyone and frequency sounds?” Pseldolux quickly esque pitch-shifting and sparse stereo ultimately a feeling of celebration their grandmothers had fostered an replies: “I’ve tried to replicate her imaging. that I land on. entrenched hatred for bass-heavy sounds on the Monomachine but With the release of her debut studio Is it possible to be vulnerable album Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides through the artificial, man-made in 2018, SOPHIE cemented herself as and ‘fake’? SOPHIE did not so much Listening to SOPHIE felt like the industry being a mainstream force to be reckoned answer that question as make it totally shaken awake from a deep creative slumber. with. Could we have ever imagined irrelevant. She built the foundations that songs as abrasive and challenging for a brighter vision of pop futurism as Ponyboy and Faceshopping would that artists today are still struggling to synthesised sounds and chipmunked it’s difficult.” Xidnpnlss adds: “She’s have been charting successes? Or replicate and live up to. She crumbled vocals. Driven to a frenzy by the wonderful, but she’s been at it for 20 that an artist that so deliberately and the false dichotomies between the mainstream music press, the ‘is pop years and works hard. That’s probably unashamedly broke every rule in the mainstream and the avant-garde electronic even music’ debate gained why it’s so hard to get those sounds pop playbook could be nominated world, inspiring reverie from almost more traction than such an irrelevant on your Monomachine.” Psyclone001 for an award as industry-shilling as a every corner and walk of life – artists question ever deserved. Never before wastes no time in trying to shut Grammy? But even more impressive and fans alike. She showed that it was had it been more contrarian to enjoy everyone else down: “That sound than how popular the record was, was still possible to truly express yourself trance leads and acid basslines. should have never existed in the how it was able to afford a kind of in an original way without enduring To say SOPHIE merely ‘changed first place. Terrible sound and it just earnestness to avant-garde electronic the terror of representation and the game’ in 2013 is to use a phrase keeps going through the whole track. music which so often comes off as comparison. And she did it all with so often applied to producers whose I think that may go down as the most misanthropic, dark and stand-offish. such honesty and joy, in a way that output is consistently good; it is annoying sound I have ever heard.” The core message of Un-Insides is never once felt contrived. more accurate to say she completely A quick flick through the myriad one of love and defiance: a genuine When I listen to BIPP in 2021, I crumbled the assumed boundaries of of reviews online available for and unabashed championing of still feel that rush of awe that I first sound design and revealed a new sky. SOPHIE’s 2015 debut compilation human beings regardless of how they felt when I was just 13. Perhaps the Almost an entire decade later, BIPP PRODUCT will reveal that it polarised identify. Though I could never speak thing that I appreciate SOPHIE for still feels like a miraculous artifact critics more than any other electronic for, and don’t claim to be speaking for, the most is the optimism that her from a distant utopic future, revealing release that year. Pitchfork, everyone’s the trans and non-binary experience, music inherently presents: that there more of its impossibly intricate least favourite music publication, I could not even begin to name the are in fact sounds that we have not details on every spin. With textures described it both as “a cluster of and timbres gloriously contradictory neon-coloured balloons ready to pop” She built the foundations for a brighter vision in their construction – metallic clangs and “depressingly skippable” within that evoked rubber, rubbery slaps paragraphs of the same article. But of pop futurism that artists today are still reminiscent of aluminium sheets a propensity to generate extreme struggling to replicate and live up to. – listening to SOPHIE felt like the reactions means that at least some of industry being shaken awake from those reactions will be ones of awe, a deep creative slumber. With every love and inspiration. countless number of artists and discovered yet, textures yet to be trypophobic pop and bubbly whoosh, Despite the weak critical reception, creatives that reacted in ecstasy uncovered behind the knobs and SOPHIE posed two blunt questions the impact PRODUCT has had on towards the release of the album’s faders of synthesisers that we thought to the music world: “Did you know artists is beyond seminal. Try as you debut music video It’s Okay to Cry. we comprehensively understood, things could sound like this? And might, it’s almost impossible to name With SOPHIE cast against an ethereal timbres that have not been imagined doesn’t it sound so good?” any genre or movement in music and heavenly blue-pink sky, every but that we can craft through fearless One of the most entertaining over the past eight years that hasn’t dramatic supersaw chord and glittery craft. Every time I wake up and forum threads I’ve ever had the been deeply affected by SOPHIE’s trance arpeggio punctuated her lyrics boot into Ableton, or turn on my pleasure of visiting and revisiting music in some way. Even if you just with violent happiness: “Cause we’ve instruments in the morning, it’s that is the now 100-reply long ‘SOPHIE consider her direct collaborations and all got a dark place / Maybe if we shine optimism that drives me the most to sound design’ post on Elektronauts production work, SOPHIE has been some light there / It won’t be so hard / create, and never stop creating. – a discussion website for users of responsible for the synthetic sonic I want to know those parts of you.” It instruments by Elektron, a Swedish landscape of tracks from both the should come as no surprise that the Whole New World: Remembering SOPHIE Art by Chloe Callow

12 13 CULTURE CULTURE Yuri on thin ice Sapphic fruit: clutching to queer Danny Cabubas casts her line into the world of anime queerbaiting. interpretation in Goblin Market love anime. categories. competitive figure skater who has and despite its attempts to portray a I I’ve been watching it for a long It’s no stretch to say that Yuri hit a low-point in his career. After beautiful and genuine relationship Niamh Gallagher take a bite into the subtext of a Victorian poem. time and have hundreds of episodes on Ice’s success was culturally a wild series of events he is offered between Yuuri and Viktor, its and shows under my belt. That being significant. It normalised depictions to be coached by Viktor Nikiforov, a obstinant refusal to present a f I feel a whisper of queer the transgressive desire to be have unwound the web and of the poem? Don’t read that collapse of a turbulent love said, I’ll say that 2016 was a pretty of male characters and male top Russian figure skater and Yuuri’s canonically queer romance dampens subtext in the silky depths a female artist. Their names framed the prey. far! Yet, the good English affair.” Indeed, “how re- good year for anime. The Shonen relationships that weren’t overtly longtime idol. The show follows both any sort of progress the writers and I of ambiguity, I grasp that gos- attempt to be as wily as the What I have neglected to student in me, perpetually in ally sinister and scary it is, Jump bestseller My Hero Academia sexual or fetishised. The characters the blossoming relationship between producers may have hoped to make. samer wing and hold it close. poem itself, papers like A emphasise is that the poem search of a thesis, dismissed given just a Freudian glance, started airing, cult-classic Jojo’s were well-written and the romantic the men and Yuuri’s journey as a But this was in 2016, right? It goes into my proverbial Punishment Required: Pleasure oozes with sexuality. It is my fervent love for the poem has never been openly dis- Bizarre Adventure was in it’s 4th aspects were all very compelling and skater. Surely now producers have realised cabinet of curiosities, where I of Pain in…‘Goblin Market’ by also very, very gay. When Liz- as merely personal fantasy. cussed.” Thankfully Playboy season, and most importantly to this genuinely touching; but only if you I previously mentioned the show’s that their audiences are smart and keep all the scraps, relics and Aijun Seneha, or my personal zie brings home the fruit for Besides, I couldn’t stop hear- would provide the long over- article: the ice-skating anime Yuri on wanted them to be there. tendency to hint towards a canon won’t fall for such tricks anymore. potentialities of queerness in favourite; Absinthe Makes the Laura she cries: ing that all-too familiar voice, due recognition of the “lurid Ice became an unexpected smash-hit. And that is where Yuri on Ice fails queer relationship but never actually And furthermore, surely audiences soft, velvet-lined drawers. Tart Grow Fonder: A Note on telling me to “stop making sexual fantasies that raged in And it doesn’t take a genius to have realised that by continuing to In the cabinet there is a ‘Wormwood…’ in ‘Goblin Mar- Come and kiss me. everything gay.” Miss Rosetti’s unconscious.” understand why. consume this content, we are further drawer which holds a downy ket’ by Shelley O’Reilly. Ro- Never mind my bruises, And then I stumbled I was simultaneously horri- Contrary to popular belief, quite encouraging companies to keep yellow peach; a goblin globe setti actually wrote the poem Hug me, kiss me, suck my across a Playboy magazine fied and amused. I couldn’t a large number of anime-watchers producing queerbaiting content, fresh and dew-speckled. in 1859 whilst volunteering in juices from 1973. It was the first help but admire the sticky, are women, and so many shows are right? Along the stem, a spider has Highgate at a home for ‘fallen Squeezed from goblin fruits copy on the stack in a dusty lacquered writing. “The all- made with this in mindt. In the early Well, flashforward to 2021 and spun her web. I open this women.’ The rather uncom- for you corner of an antique book- time hardcore pornographic 2010’s, shows like Kuroko no Basuke the release of Sk8 the Infinity; a drawer often and admire the mon conviction of those Goblin pulp and goblin dew. store in rural NSW. On the classic for tiny tots,” the au- and Free! became exceedingly skateboarding anime featuring a cast scene. It is a reminder to my- who ran St Mary Magdalene Eat me, drink me, love me… cover, a naked woman was thor opined, “Adult readers popular with young women in both of lovable pretty-boys and enough self when I feel that I’ve suc- Penitentiary was that these And later: squatting, her red snakeskin of today…will doubtless be Japan and the West. Both featured sexual tension to make you question cumbed to critical theory; to women – primarily sex work- Shaking with aguish fear, platforms complete with gold shocked…it is a lewd goblin casts of pretty-boys and enough if skateboarding is simply a metaphor the belief that some argu- ers – could be ‘rehabilitated’ and pain, Playboy logo buckles and the that rises dripping out of the sexual tension to make you question for a very different physical activity. ments just are more plausible and ‘reformed.’ Assuming She kissed and kissed her proclamation; “Entertain- dark depths of the Victorian if you read the anime description I won’t lie, even with the show than others. this was front of mind for Ro- with a hungry mouth. ment for Men.” I’ll admit psyche.” The accompanying right. More recently, shows like still currently airing and having only Christina Rosetti’s 1862 setti, it follows that the sinful this was enticing, but what I paintings by iconic Playboy Haikyu!! and Sk8 the Infinity have about 10 episodes out, I love it. But poem Goblin Market is an er- path of tasting goblin fruit Screw the evidence, I discovered inside was more artist Kinuko Y. Craft revel grown their own sizable fan bases as an older viewer now and a queer ratic, glimmering fretwork is akin to sex work, with a wanted to proclaim, this tempting still. The five-page in this lush, camp excess. through similar uses of attractive woman myself, I can see it coming of fairy tale, gothic and al- sweet moral about sisterhood poem is unequivocally sap- spread on my favourite poem Salivating goblins, explicitly characters and queerbaiting. from a mile away. legorical elements. Two sis- driving the pro-convent mes- phic! Of course, this meant opened with an interpreta- yonic and phallic fruit and a Queerbaiting has existed in the It’s history repeating itself. ters, Laura and Lizzie, are sage home. A good scholar warping some of the finer tion of a kind. The unnamed comparatively prudish de- industry for a long time and has And that’s what’s really the most hounded by the temptation would argue their case, with points of the story. The sis- author claimed that Goblin piction of Lizzie presumably shown to be a very effective strategy to in its representation. go ahead with it. Examples of this frustrating. I love anime, I really do, of luscious fruits pandered evidence from the poem and terly incest? Of minor con- Market was borne from poor tasting Laura’s fruit; all com- gain viewers. Shows garner fans and a While it is one of the better include extremely intimate bathhouse but part of that love is to address and by wily, zoomorphic goblins. context, and boldly claim to sequence. The entire ending dear Christina “suffering the posed in gorgeously pulpy following by teasing the possibility of examples of queerbaiting, it is still scenes, Yuuri performing an ‘Eros’ (a acknowledge the problems with the The cascading stanzas mimic detail. a gay relationship but never actually queerbaiting. Nothing in the show is Greek word for passionate or sensual industry. No amount of fanservice can their seductive cries: In a single article, Rosetti following through. established as explicitly canon. Yuri love) themed skate routine for Viktor, wash the bitter taste out of my mouth had been reduced to a love- Admittedly, as the years have gone on Ice straddles the line between and Yuuri and Viktor buying matching whenever I fall for the ol’ queer and Swart-headed mulberries, lorn, decidedly un-self-aware by, the anime industry has improved being just queer enough that viewers ‘promise rings’. All platonically of switch. Wild free-born cranberries, children’s author and her in this regard and we have gotten who want romance will be satisfied, course. Arguably the most notable Still, forever the optimist, I do Crab-apples, dewberries, sweet sisters’ fate into titillat- more mainstream shows with canon and being not quite queer enough moment of queerbaiting in the show have hope. Society is progressing and Pine-apples, blackberries… ing smut. I wasn’t so keen on queer characters – I look to Banana that viewers who don’t could easily and one that had fans raving the most hopefully, the anime industry will the misogyny of the former, Fish and Given as examples of this brush it off as platonic. was a ‘kiss’ between Yuuri and Viktor follow. Until then, I guess I’ll continue Laura, inevitably, falls nor the lesbian performance – but it’s nowhere near becoming a For those who have never seen that was somehow drawn in such a to take the bait. prey, and sucks “until her for the male gaze of the latter. norm. Yuri on Ice before, let me explain to way that it could still be considered lips are sore.” No more does It seemed to eschew all ambi- Having said this, Yuri on Ice exists you the basic premise. Our central platonic. she hear the goblins call, yet guity for the satisfaction of in a sort of limbo between these two character is Yuuri Katsuki, a Japanese Now as much as I love the show Art by Sophie Zhou all she desires in the world is the male reader, to whom my to taste once more; “peaches connection to the text would with a velvet nap, / pellucid be seen only as yet more “En- Fan dissonance grapes without one seed.” She tertainment for Men.” begins to wither away, but is Yet, in my hands, the poem Marlow Hurst bemoans the dissonance between canon and fanon. saved by Laura, who is able to feels like a kind of delicious obtain some of the precious subversion. I shamelessly ou’ve finished up with a series. Be content for months on end, only to If you remember someone as author is dead, they’re definitely goblin fruit without tasting take Goblin Market as a sign Y it a final book, a resounding last find that things aren’t exactly as we queer, that’s probably from fanfiction. asleep at the wheel at the best of times. it herself. Lizzie sucks for a of my kind of love existing season, or the close to a decade-long remember them. Maybe a ship isn’t If a plot point either makes too For those who know it, fanfiction has second time, and the spell is within the fleshy, enigmatic franchise saga. All things must end, quite as explicit as you recall, it could much or too little sense, that’s always been a mixed bag. For every broken. The poem concludes folds of the Victorian gothic. and that includes media. But for many be that there never was a coffee shop probably from fanfiction. 500k modern AU there’s a poorly on a jarringly moral note. I have no desire for more ev- fans (myself included), the end never AU in the first book, or perhaps, much If you remember a side character spelt, 10k power fantasy. But that’s Both sisters have married, idence or argument. I admire quite comes. The life of a fictional to your horror, not everyone is gay. having more dialogue, that’s probably what happens when there are zero had children, and put their the glistening web, wink at world can be extended, preserved, This is what happens when authorial from fanfiction. barriers to entry. It may feel weird to wild youth safely in the realm the tightly spun centre and and even … rearranged. Through foul intent comes crashing into the world If you thought the protagonist revisit a text with false memories, but of didactic allegory. close the drawer softly, until necromancy and dark magic, fiction of fanon. had any sort of common sense, that’s that dissonance isn’t so bad. After all, Scholars have had their next time. can take on a new life — a cursed life. It’s a disappointing and often probably from fanfiction. all it really means is that someone did erudite knickers in a twist for To the uninitiated, this is known as drearily nostalgic process, which But dissonance isn’t necessarily it better. a long time. What is the met- fanfiction. forces a reader to audit their mental a bad thing, as it only reinforces aphorical relationship be- But what fanfiction giveth, it also archives and bring them in line with the value of fan made content. If tween these sensuous, peril- taketh away. Anything that subverts what’s ‘canon.’ But this is an ongoing non-authorial texts have the power ous temptations and Rosetti’s the natural order must extract a struggle. Eventually you’ll reread or to complement or even supplant Victorian London context? price. And the price of fanfiction is rewatch, and the cycle will begin anew authorial texts, then we really need There are papers arguing al- dissonance. once more. This is the plight of fan to assess the value of canon itself. lusions to drug addiction, the We’ve all had that moment where dissonance. So here are some tips to Sometimes the author isn’t the best biblical fallen woman, even Art by Claire Ollivain we come back to an original text separate fiction from different fiction. judge of what’s best for their world. after ruthlessly devouring non-canon While I’m not fully convinced the

14 15 CULTURE CULTURE Pigeon power: in appreciation of our Sympathy for the Devil feathered friends Julius Wittfoth writes on how Downfall twists your humanity. certain unflinching an absolute treat, as Ganz pours all the fabric of history just enough to Mohnke was found guilty of having Ariana Haghighi is in awe of our winged workers. A determination is required to of his energy into the performance. open a few tears. Take, for example, killed Canadian prisoners of war make a film that has its outcome Downfall’s most famous scene, in Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect (POWs) in 1944, and is also accused he rats of the sky. Useless successful methods employed in troops by delivering a note containing as a large pout, frilly coat or fan-like in the title. But in many ways, which Hitler slightly loses his cool, and armaments minister of Nazi of having murdered British POWs T vectors of disease. That dieting the Tudor era to steer clear of the the location of the ‘Lost Battalion’ in feathers. Pigeon enthusiast 2Tone certainty is the very essence of Oliver has broken into the Anglosphere in Germany. In Downfall, Speer acts as after the Battle of Dunkirk. You friend that guiltily stares at you for bubonic plague. When aristocrats fell the Argonna Forest, despite being from Brooklyn trains his league Hirschbiegel’s project in Downfall. the effective package of short memes a rational counterweight to Hitler’s wouldn’t know this from the film hours while you eat your sandwich, ill, doctors artfully strapped a pigeon shot and wounded. Pigeons were also of pigeons in aerial acrobatics to The film opens on a crumbling with edited subtitles, becoming a increasingly erratic decision making, however, as a YouTube commenter desperate for a morsel. Fee-skippers to each foot, such as those belonging employed to spread news of victory compete against a fleet of 300 flying Nazi leadership, hurtling towards popular way for people to react to any culminating in an emotional scene shows when remarking “Mohnke was ‘unknowingly’ waddling onto City to none other than Queen Catherine. and defeat in other wars, seen in the at the other end of the borough. He apocalypse as the thousand-year kind of current affairs, and causing in which Speer admits to Hitler that a good leader. His command of the Circle trains maskless. We sneer as It was believed that the disease would aftermath of the Normans’ successful allows them to fly and see if they Reich is crushed beneath the treads major headaches for anyone trying he has not only refused to pursue ragtag force of SS, Volkssturm and their grey bodies glide gracefully over pass via transference to the pigeon, battle against the Saracens in the return, “And if they do,” he says in a of Soviet tanks. From an early Hitler Youth is testament to his us. Pigeon persecution is societally thus curing the patient. Irrespective eleventh century where King Roger documentary, “then you know they’ll scene, in which Hitler’s birthday leadership, resourcefulness and encouraged as we aggressively shoo of its success rate, it is important to fastened parchment dipped in the never break your heart.” is heralded by a thunderstorm bravery.” Another commenter them away. If dog is man’s best friend, recognise the bravery of such loyal blood of the defeated to his legion of of Russian artillery, there is praises Speer’s pseudo-historical then the pigeon is his sworn enemy. pigeons who sacrificed their lives. homing pigeons, disseminating the No pigeon left behind no mistaking the fact that defiance, saying “Thank God But this is a complete dismissal of this news with dramatic flair. Some sub-species of pigeons, bird’s loyal service to man for many Send in the culver-y everyone in the infamous Speer decided not to fulfil the known as ‘rollers’ and ‘tumblers,’ millennia. Stool pigeons Führerbunker must flee or Nero plans [scorched earth].” It is widely known that pigeons have the genetic inclination to curl Pigeons are far from bird-brained. perish. In this regard, Downfall This kind of thinking were used to relay messages during the Most intriguingly, pigeons into a ball and somersault rather than From identifying cancers in imaging, is a masterclass in relentless that Downfall has inspired World Wars, often surviving targeted have been historically accused of reach the aerial heights of their fellow to categorising children’s artworks claustrophobia, as the audience in its audience very closely shootings and transmitting significant undercover investigations due to peers. Such pigeons are used, without as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ with a simple cannot help but watch Hitler and resembles the beliefs of the updates to the frontlines. Pigeons their plain outward nature. The use incurring any pain to them, in sports peck, to possessing the capacity to his generals draw up pathetic ‘clean Wehrmacht myth,’ a false saved lives, often communicating of pigeons for aerial photographic where they are rolled like lawn bowls comprehend space and time itself, it counter-offensives with a gut- narrative pushed after the war the exact location of sinking ships at purposes was developed in depth — there is even a World Cup for this is evident that they are the Stephen wrenching sense of empathy. by German generals and NATO niche. Spectators often note that Hawkings of the bird family. Pigeon True hopelessness is a hard powers in order to free German For thousands of years they have gracefully served and these gymnastic aficionados appear slander of alleged ‘unintelligence’ can feeling to shake, particularly war criminals for military service to enjoy somersaulting, frequently only stem from ignorance or insecurity. supported us, only to be denigrated and scorned at our feet. under the shadow of the by denying involvement in war arching their back and clapping Studies suggest they may even be the lightning speed of 125 kilometres by German apothecary Julius their wings before performing their impending, faceless cataclysm crimes and furthering an apolitical superior to us; that they are faster at per hour. Carrier pigeon service Neubronner, but later abandoned impressive tricks. Scientists have not that Hitler and his inner circle image for figures such as Speer multitasking thanks to the density can be quicker than the internet, until the CIA invested in a battery- currently determined the cause of this faced. Hirschbiegel’s skills as a and Mohnke. By romanticising of nerve cells in their avian brain. evident in 2009 when a single pigeon powered camera for pigeon espionage behaviour, but suggest it may be linked director are in full throttle as he the fanatical defense of Nazism, Most famously, pigeons possess a Winston delivered a USB stick twice purposes; the details of its use are to differences in neurophysiology, creates an environment more Downfall makes it eerily easy for paranormal homing ability attributed faster than the same amount of data currently classified, but it is enough creating their proclivity to roll their reminiscent of a horror film its audience to sympathise with to strong magnetoreception skills. streamed from the internet provider to make you suspicious of any flying heads backwards rather than fly than an historical epic at times. But to learn German from the film. While the mandated scorched-earth policy, fascist murderers, often making no one inescapable question continues this scene seems almost impossible but even actively hindered Hitler’s effort whatsoever to remind the Better the bird you know Telkon in South Africa. They actively creature. In 2015, an Urdu-stamped upwards. served in the Indian Police Pigeon pigeon found in India was indicted to haunt viewers as they watch the to take seriously given its status as directives. This conversation, audience of these figures’ crimes. The first depiction of the Service until the 1970s, crucially as a spy, the Indian government Costs a wing and a foot film: why do I feel sorry for the Nazis? a meme, in the context of the film however, exists only within the The danger of Downfall lies in domesticated pigeon is carved communicating messages during claiming it infiltrated borders to Half of the answer to this question it is more than natural; it is utterly pages of Speer’s post-war memoirs, this very lie. It distorts — perhaps In prominent pigeon markets, lovingly into Mesopotamian stone, adverse weather conditions. For covertly spy on the contested region birds are sold for upwards of $100, is straightforward: competent visceral. Ganz manages to perfectly wherein he carefully constructs the intentionally, perhaps out of displaying their loyal their efforts, of Kashmir. A year later, 150 more and are adorned with silver on feather filmmaking. Downfall isn’t a capture Hitler’s passion, egotism, image of the ‘good Nazi’ for himself, laziness — the Nazis’ reputation homing skills and alleged criminals were seized at the and foot. In Beijing, the racing pigeon particularly cinematic film, with viciousness and lunacy in an eerie depicting himself as an apolitical as unequivocally evil. It cannot be iconic nature. A border — one of whom carried an capital of China, feathered athletes most of it being shot in the ruddy way. Watching him is nothing short architect who was merely swept away forgotten that the resistance to timeless friend abusive note directed to Indian Prime have been sold for up to $1.4m. A far confines of Hitler’s bunker. A lot of of delightful and terrifying. So, if with the cyclonic winds of the time. fascism in Germany didn’t come from to Pharaohs, Minister Narendra Modi. cry from pigeon hatred, enthusiastic the time the cinematography seems Downfall’s problems don’t come from A similar case is that of the military or within the party itself, pigeon images have Turkish auctioneer Mam Dildas to be closer to a found-footage film lazy direction or weak performances, Wilhelm Mohnke, a general in but from the millions of Jews and been found on numerous The feather forecast proudly proclaims, “This is a passion, than anything else, as handheld shots there must be a more sinister source. the Waffen-SS, who, in Downfall, anti-fascist dissidents that perished Egyptian tombs and may Forget canaries in a coal mine, in a hobby you cannot quit. I’ve been track characters frantically pacing Downfall flirts with fascism in attempts to prevent the fanatical in the flames of Nazism, flames that even have travelled with early 2020, ten pigeons known to sell the fridge and my wife’s through labyrinthian hallways. a way that creeps unnoticed onto Volkssturm civilian recruits from were fanned and stoked by these dynastic leaders into the afterlife, served the niche role of gold bracelets to pay for pigeons.” Beyond the cinematography, the screen. It doesn’t come in the dying weaponless against the Soviet supposedly ‘apolitical’ figures. their bones scattered on tomb floors. air-quality surveyors! A While auctioneers intensely pigeon- watching Bruno Ganz as Hitler is form of a huge lie, but it pulls on colossus. Back in reality, however, The pigeon served an important role London company fitted trade at night, they let their pigeons in many religions, their sacrifice to fashionable backpacks stretch their wings calmly at sunset; various Gods demonstrative of their with air monitors on pigeon-keeping allegedly instils a beatitude. Pigeons flock around their trusty backs and sent sense of deep peace. temples and mosques in a hungry them to measure levels The values of the pigeon are throng, and are fed readily due to Do you know someone who has experienced something of pollution in different limitless, if only more humans coo-d the strong historical associations regions. As they tweeted see it. For thousands of years they scary, violent or upsetting and is fnding it hard to cope? with pigeons in Islam and Hinduism. around the city, findings have gracefully served and supported 1st century Roman philosopher Caius were also literally published us, only to be denigrated and scorned noted that ‘many people have quite on twitter, alerting citizens at our feet. Justice must be served for Are they using alcohol or drugs to manage? a mania for pigeons;’ this ancient to conditions thanks to the this loyal, loving creature. fanaticism was not restricted to veteran pigeons in the feathered meteorologists. zealots in one country. As far as the limelight have been Art by Shania O’Brien The University of Sydney is conducting a trial of therapy pigeon flies, people were intrigued by rewarded with Pigeon pocket-rockets this modest bird’s many talents and medals for valour. to support young people aged 12 to 25 with these pious grace. Major General Despite our under- difcultiese Fowler, Chief of appreciation of these speckled doves A pigeon a day keeps the Communications in the British army, in Australia, pigeon-keeping is an plague away claimed, “It is the pigeon on which honourable pastime in Turkey, China, Participation includes 16 free face-to-face therapy sessions. we must and do depend when every and the Netherlands. Fanatics label It appears that I have humbly visit: copea.org.au other method fails … I am glad to say themselves as pigeon collectors, stumbled upon the cure for they have never failed us.” Notably, in racers, or even fanciers, where they COVID-19, recalling the (dubiously) text: 2 5 1918, one pigeon solely saved 200 U.S. artificially select certain traits such

16 17 CULTURE CREATIVE The Good, the Brad, and the Ugly Forgive Me Body Juliette Marchant discusses The Brad Pittcast, in conversation with hosts Dan Dixon and Joseph Earp. Words by Rhian Mordaunt e are all prey to the astonishing as he portrays the classic leading man acclaimed, Fight Club, you will leave The American film industry is in many It was last summer when I realised When I decided to watch the rest of Willusion of the Hollywood archetype, whilst also maintaining the podcast with a list of dozens of ways a damning, predatory, industrial celebrity. The supposition that our his reputation as an extraordinarily non-Pitt films, common and obscure, complex, that perpetuates often that my body was a canvas, left the summer from inside my room, favourite filmic faces have always interesting character actor. to add to your watchlist. irritating and unhealthy discourse. unpainted out of fear that someone only seeing his colours through rays been the dashing stars that greet us But for those that are still In an ironic departure from the But the longer you spend looking at would look at my colours and refuse of light which crept through my through the screen like old friends. unconvinced by the charm of the podcast’s title, many of the films for the media produced by the industry, to call it art. windows. Brad Pitt is no exception to this golden-haired heart-throb, what sits which Brad Pitt is credited possess the more likely you are to find gems. rule. When a fresh-faced Pitt and his at the core of The Brad Pittcast, and noticeably brief Pitt performances. More importantly, the more likely you When I left the house bare chested, When I would go out at night and rippling abs graced our screens in was the primary reason for its creation, Perhaps the most extreme example are to truly find Brad Pitt. the iconic Thelma and Louise, a star is a deep and considered appreciation of this is Charlie Kaufman’s Being The concept of ‘finding’ Brad Pitt wearing only sea salt and sunlight dance with the moonlight, I never was born. Little did we know that for film held by both hosts. This John Malkovich, wherein Pitt portrays because those are the accessories had the courage to tell him that three years prior, a youthful Pitt was is not to say that Dan and Joseph himself in a cameo for all of one The longer you spend that make me feel most beautiful. my heart belonged to the sun but muffling in a black, leather gimp suit, enjoy the same films, in fact, the pair second. In view of the podcasts subject, looking at the media somehow he knew. and pummelled by a dolphin, starring have quite polarising tastes, often it’s only natural to wonder how this produced by the industry, the When I grazed by the beach and felt in the Yugoslavian drama The Dark reinforced by Joseph’s enthusiastic film could produce an episode that Side of the Sun. discussion of exploitation and horror goes for a whopping hour and forty- more likely you are to find the sun press up against my back, When I met a young man who walked Like fans following the transition cinema, rivalled by Dan’s opposition two minutes. But it is in episodes like gems. More importantly, the his lips so tender I barely noticed along the shore in the evenings, from Clark Kent to Superman, Dan to expressions of cruelty. But such this one where listeners are reminded more likely you are to truly when he left a mark. picking up fragments of shells and Dixon and Joseph Earp have committed divergent attitudes make for vivacious that The Brad Pittcast is more than find Brad Pitt. putting them back together. themselves to a chronological conversation, with added colour just an investigation of the man that When I looked in the mirror and assessment of the Brad Pitt catalogue coming from the reading of Letterboxd is Brad Pitt, it simultaneously acts in The Brad Pittcast. With each reviews, randomly selected to present as a survey of the rapidly changing may seem bizarre when his is a name noticed my skin getting darker. When I realised that nothing is ever episode dedicated to unpacking a film weird and wonderful opinions about American film industry, revealing the that is routinely splashed across star- truly broken. featuring Pitt, the podcast provides a films from people across the globe. peaks and troughs of a culture that studded credit lists, and his face is When I believed that my body unique insight into the genesis story has irrevocably transformed the world almost as famous as Hollywood itself. Like fans following the was attacking me and deserved to When I got so distracted that I of the star that we all know and love, that we live in. Such a thought leaves me pondering be punished with skin lightening didn’t even notice that the sun had facilitated by a deep dive into the films transition from Clark Kent to Dan, an English academic who is the curious visual of Brad Pitt at the creams and bleach. come up. that we remember, have never seen, or Superman, Dan Dixon and particularly attentive to contemporary 2020 Oscar’s Luncheon, wherein he maybe even choose to forget. Joseph Earp have committed American writing in his professional equipped himself with a name tag, In conversation with Honi, Dan life, noted that “Films allow us to dig as though no one would know who When I replayed memories of my When the young man looked at and Joseph spoke of the immediate themselves to a chronological deeper into a mythic American culture he was already. But for two men that assessment of the Brad Pitt aunt telling me that fairness is me and said that I looked different familiarity of Brad Pitt, but that we never try to make relevant, have spent the past year and a half beauty and beauty deserves love. in the sunlight, as though I was simultaneously held that when they catalogue in The Brad Pittcast. but is somehow still always relevant.” intensely watching masses of Brad Pitt suddenly at peace. started to look at the trajectory of This line can be read as a distillation of content, and spending just as much his career, other narratives started the podcast’s purpose, an act of ‘slow time discussing the subject, their When I realised that everyone wants to emerge. “He’s probably one of The listening process guides you looking’ that forces audiences to pay prevailing finding is that “Brad Pitt is to be loved. Forgive me body, I forgot to love the only male stars that still fits the through discoveries owf hidden gems, attention to what is on the screen and not who you think it is.” you. traditional mould,” said Dan, evoking such as Cutting Class, a 1989 high see how that translates to the world We see the artificial Hollywood Art by Kritika Rathore references to traditional Hollywood school ‘whodunit,’ and shines a light beyond. Joseph, who spends much of star in Troy, the playful yet considered stardom; the good looking, slick but on old classics like The Assassination his professional life engaging with apparition of death in Meet Joe Black, not quite mass-produced likes of of Jesse James by the Coward Robert complex works of philosophy, aligned the witty Nazi-killer in Inglourious Jimmy Stewart. Joseph continued, Ford, reminding audiences of their this notion with German director Basterds, and the man with the name “Pitt encapsulates what it’s like to be brilliance. Additionally, Joseph’s Werner Herzog’s practice of watching tag at the Oscar’s Luncheon. But do free textbooks at a massive Hollywood star in a world encyclopaedic knowledge of films WrestleMania, as in the words of we really know the man behind the that makes Marvel films.” In these from all genres means that whether Herzog himself, “the poet must not label? You should listen to the podcast observations, Dan and Joseph hint at you are listening to an episode on avert his eyes from what’s going on to find out for yourself. the copy centre a tension that Pitt seems to grapple the children’s animation, Sinbad: in the world. In order to understand with throughout his professional life, Legend of the Seven Seas, or the much what’s going on, you have to face it.” Words by Pailey Wang I raced down ‘I’m taking this on my bike for a friend’ How about you take a look at one of these mini episode that explores the comfort member of The Brad Pittcast family. Don’t know where when I heard there were never before episodes to get you started? that we get from our sense of familiarity, For the children at heart and cartoon fans. imagined or real, with people that mean a free textbooks had the barriers to start your For those that want to start at the beginning Episode 35 – Sinbad: Legend of the Seven of the Pitt timeline. lot to us. at the copy centre into a discipline Pittcast journey? Seas: Featuring the vibrant Xavier Rubetzki because been so low Episode 2 – Dark Side of the Sun: Revel For the fan that has only come across Brad Noonan, this episode is a trip down memory the co-op bookshop in the absurdity of the world where Pitt Pitt this decade. lane for those of us that grew up with the got his start - a world of leather gimp Episode 1 - Ad Astra: A thoroughly fever dream that was DreamWorks 2D shut down we made our piles suits, motorcycles and dolphin encounters modern Brad! Take a sneak peek at what is animation. Find out whether a man whose and hauled away that add nothing to the plot. Join Dan to come in the first episode ever produced career has been built around the physicality I entered our finds and Joseph as they attempt to unravel the by The Brad Pittcast crew. A great start for of his performances can pull off a role that sheepishly in boxes inaudible dialogue of a masked Pitt, and followers of the 2020 awards season run, rides exclusively on his voice. ‘hi and backpacks grapple with the themes of fragility and the lovers of space, and fans of a contemplative, For those that love a classic. I’m here for the and took home outsider that weave themselves into the aged Pitt often staring in silence. Episode 26 – Fight Club: A considerable free textbooks’ with us fabric of the film. For a discussion about a genuinely good amount of ink has been spilled and ‘yep the potential For those that haven’t watched any of the film that you should definitely watch. audio recorded about the David Fincher just come behind here to learn so much films, but still love Brad Pitt. Episode 42: The Assassination of Jesse sensation, Fight Club. But Dan and Joseph you can take just a couple Episode 18 – Brad Pitt’s Fits: The James by the Coward Robert Ford: You bring something new to the mix, discussing, whatever you like’ pages paparazzi, whether we like it or not, play know what’s going to happen – it’s literally among other subjects, the alternate and glue such a vital role in shaping the way that in the title. Nonetheless, this film is an universe in which Robert Pattinson portrays I and my fellow in the end irrevocable masterpiece! In addition to a Tyler Durden. Relish in the unadulterated we view our favourite celebrities. In this knowledge seekers should they ever episode, Dan and Joseph scroll through the chat about a marvellous work of cinema, hotness of Brad Pitt and question whether tabloids of yesteryear to assess the outfits The Brad Pittcast takes an empathetic or not this film is truly cinematic gold. perused the aisles have cost so much of untapped knowledge and accessories that have come to define turn, discussing high stakes, life-changing And if you’re still stuck mulling over what Logo by Genevieve Felix Reynolds the Brad Pitt that we know and love. A fun, decisions, and saying farewell to a dear to listen to, just listen to all of the episodes.

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signed by the landlord. Again, it must Report. In addition to the Condition President be in English. If you have paid by a bank Report it is a good idea to take photos of transfer you should still ask for a receipt. the property (e.g., each wall, the floors, Swapnik Sanagavarapu Rent & Bond - Keeping There are some situations where the the oven, the windows, etc), showing any Yes, it’s me again, back with more updates not have to worry about the costs of textbooks University throughout the coming weeks. would deregister charities engaged in activism landlord is not required to give you a broken or dirty items, and email them receipt, but there is no harm in asking. to your landlord. This will “timestamp” on what the SRC has been up to this week! for at least one semester. Many thanks to SUSF, I’ve also been working hard in the policy under highly dubious circumstances. As a Track of Paperwork As usual, it’s been a busy one, with lots the University Copy Centre, Fuji, SUPRA, Hikari space this week - with two policy projects in charitable organisation engaged in advocacy If you are not sure about this, send them those photos and will allow you to refer of initiatives and work going on to benefit So and Lydia Dutcher for their efforts in putting particular occupying my time. The first has and activism, it’s likely to impact our operations an email saying that you understand to them at a later date to show that students. The first thing we did this week this together! been the preparation of a submission to the significantly. More details can also be found in was launch our free textbook initiative! By Last week, an article appeared in Honi University in relation to their proposal for last week’s copy of Honi (“Changes to not-for- you’re not going to get a receipt but whatever damage you are being blamed popular demand, it’s back again for another describing the awful conditions at the Peter 12 week semesters. To reiterate, the SRC is profit laws may silence activists and advocacy for, was already there when you moved week between the 14th and 18th of March, Nicol Russel building. There were reports of strongly opposed to reductions in semester groups”). There are so many in. Be ruthless when completing your from 10:30 am to 2:30pm, so head on over to doors not working properly, urine leaking out of length due to issues around student workloads, As always, you find more information on part of the Condition Report, because the University Copy Centre (just off from the the bathrooms and into the study area, asbestos staff workloads and the quality of learning. our Facebook page and website, and you can bits of paper involved Boardwalk and near the Aquatic Centre) to pick being improperly removed and disability You can find a greater statement of the SRC’s email me at [email protected]. they may be very particular when you up your free books. The full list can be found on inaccessibility. This week, I raised the issue position in last week’s Honi article titled Until next time, in renting a house. move out. Whatever needs fixing or our Facebook page. We’ve heard lots of positive with the University and sought permanent “Third time lucky? University tries for twelve feedback from students in relation to the free solutions for what appear to be long-term week semesters again”. The second has been a Swapnik Some of these cleaning when you move out, that is not textbooks, and it’s nice to see some students problems. I’ll be following up on it with the submission in relation to a proposed bill that in the Condition Report, will be your can end up being responsibility. During your time in the worth thousands of home send photos of any damage that Vice Presidents dollars to you, so comes up, e.g., cracks in the wall, mould Roisin Murphy and Maria Ge did not submit a report. appearing, etc. Show that you have tried it’s definitely worth to maintain the house in good condition. keeping all of them. General Secretaries General Communication you just wanted to confirm that you Email your communications to the Priya Gupta and Anne Zhao paid them that amount of money. That landlord, so you have a time stamped way, you at least have your own written Hello all! students and getting great feedback, seeing not have survived the week without our lovely attended the Women’s Collective’s protest written record. If you have a telephone There are so many bits of paper involved name, and the address where you (or record of the payment. If you are in a The start of Sem 1 2021 has been a busy one our bags on the shoulders of many walking volunteers who chatted to students and did against sexual violence on campus, and the conversation with the landlord, send a for your GenSecs! around campus has been particularly sweet. If countless treks across Eastern Av to replenish Welfare Action Group’s speakout against the in renting a house. Some of these the Sheriff) can contact them. Please leased property you should receive a you missed out on getting one during Welcome our bag supply. slashing of JobSeeker + JobKeeper. If you are follow up email that confirms what you Since Welcome Week was pushed back from can end up being worth thousands read your lease / contract BEFORE you receipt from the NSW Department of Week and are keen to get the goodies inside, we If you are a new student and for some interested in attending similar events, check talked about. the week before uni starting to the first week of still have a few left over which you can have, out the collectives’ facebook pages. We hope to of dollars to you, so it’s definitely sign it. Regardless of whether you do Fair Trading when they have received semester, we had a hectic (in all senses of the unknown reason reading this section of Honi, with SRC masks, pens, stickers, and heaps welcome! To find out about the SRC, head to our see you at the Women’s Collective’s Snap Rally worthwhile keeping all of them. Scan not understand or agree to a clause in your bond. Most leased properties now Any Problems word) time at the stall all week, letting students of useful info! Shoot us an email and we can for Justice for Survivors, and Welfare Action know about existence and role of the SRC, website or check out the Orientation Handbook or photograph each one and email it to the lease/contract, if you have signed it, require online lodging of bonds. arrange getting one to you. online. We highly recommend getting involved Group’s forum on public and student housing, publicising the SRC’s services and collectives, both Wednesday of Week 3, and the Education yourself. you are bound by its conditions. The SRC has caseworkers trained in many and handing out our totes. A massive thank you to everyone who in the many collectives and their activist work, helped out with packing our 1750 tote bags and by volunteering with us to help students. Action Group’s staff and student protest against Condition Report different aspects of accommodation Maybe even more so than talking to job and fee hikes on Wednesday of Week 4. Contracts and Leases Receipts or handing them out! We absolutely would During the first two weeks of uni, we also laws. You can email your questions to The Condition Report is what you [email protected], together with a You should get a lease or contract You should get a receipt for any cash agree, with the landlord, as being the copy of your lease or contract, and any outlining the conditions of the home or bank cheques that you give to the Student Housing Officers condition of the property at the time other relevant emails, or if you prefer you you want to rent. This lease/contract landlord. Your receipt should have the that you moved in. If there is damage to can book a face-to-face appointment by Felix Faber, Casie Zhao, Hanxiong Qiu and Haomin Lyu. should be written in English and signed amount that you paid, why you paid the property, beyond reasonable wear calling 9660 5222. by the landlord. It is also important that it (e.g., bond, rent for February etc), and tear, you will be liable to pay for its It’s week three. Things are starting to get of students that scanned the QR code to join distance to the greatest extent. During week departments have corresponding policies on you know your landlord or agent’s full what the address of the home is, and boring. So are the reports. our social media groups and receive our posts. 2, the collective officers also met up with the student vaccinations. In the near future, we repair, unlessSTUDENTS’ it is noted REPRESENTATIVE in the Condition COUNCIL, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY During O-week, we were actively involved This is really a great start and we believe we USYD SRC residential college officers to discuss will summarize the vaccination policies among in the relevant work. We not only helped give made our effort to make the students more our plans for students in 2021. different accommodations, and try to make out the popular calendars and free bags but interested and familiar with SRC. Now that COVID vaccines have been different accommodations have the same also introduced how SRC operates, as well as Last week, we held a group meeting to developed, vaccination of students will help the vaccination policies to avoid confusion among some tips on studies - especially how to get discuss how to help students get the best quality government prevent epidemics more effectively, students. In addition, we will work with the professional service from SRC when coming and cheapest housing under the COVID-19 especially in the densely populated students’ International Student Officer to try to release across problems as senior students. Fortunately, situation. We have planned several activities accommodation and residential college. We information and guide about vaccination Ask Abe quite a lot of students got interested in SRC in the first half of the semester and formulated are now working with the Residential College in different languages. Give the greatest after the conversation and were willing to work corresponding programs to enrich students; Officer to connect with the school and relevant convenience to students who are interested in SRC caseworker help Q&A as volunteers if required. We generated plenty extracurricular activities while ensuring social department to discuss whether different relevant information. 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Residential Colleges Officers Ask Abe Q&A for students is avaialble online. Irene Fang, Alexis Bundy, Rachel Jia and Victor Ruifeng Liang did not submit a report. Head to: srcusyd.net.au/articles

Hello Abe, textbooks, and a range of additional Some of my friends showed me a study help. Downloading or uploading Do you need help website where I can get help with answers, exams, or lecture notes can some practice questions, but my old be considered “contract cheating”, with CENTRELINK? tutor said it might not be allowed. especially where you have paid money How do I know what I can and can’t to use the site or borrowed a paid Ask the SRC! use? What is the problem for me to log in from someone else. Similarly, use a website for homework help? sharing answers in facebook or The SRC has qualified caseworkers who can assist other forums, is also considered Sydney University undergraduates with Centrelink questions and issues, including: your income, academically dishonest. If you are not parents’ income, qualifying as independent, Chegg Positive sure what is allowed and what is not, relationships, over-payments and more. ask your tutor. Tell them specifically Check out the Centelink articles on our website which site or forum you would like to or book an appointment if you need more help. use, and see what they say. Dear Chegg Positive, srcusyd.net.au/src-help There are lots of websites and forums Abe that students can join to get help Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney /usydsrc Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01), p: 02 9660 5222 with practice question, alternative @src_usyd University of Sydney NSW 2006 e: [email protected] PO Box 794 Broadway NSW 2007 w: srcusyd.net.au @src_sydneyuni Contact an SRC Caseworker on 02 9660 5222 or email [email protected]

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