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An obituary for Lebanon: How a Reimagining the Jack Mundey / p. 11 revolution died / p. 12 digital ether / p. 16 LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country Letters Honi Soit is published on the stolen land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. For over 230 years, First Nations people in this country have suffered from Kiss Goodbye to MS! the destructive effects of invasion. The editors of this paper recognise that, as a team of settlers occupying the lands of the Bidjigal, Darug, Gadigal, Wangal and Wallumedegal people, we are beneficiaries of these reverberations that followed European settlement. As we strive throughout the year to offer a platform to the voices Hi Honi Soit team, I would love any coverage you could give to help me reach my goal and help Kiss mainstream media ignores, we cannot meet this goal without providing a space for First Nations people to share their experiences and perspectives. A student paper which My name is Ralph, I am a Maltese Shitzu living in Brighton in Melbourne and Goodbye to MS! does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students I have just celebrated my 16th birthday, making me 97 in dog years! Thanks for reading! of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. Over the course of May I am walking 50km (which is a long way with little legs!) Ralph Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia. I am doing the walk to support my Aunty Em who was diagnosed at just 28 years old, but there are over 25,600 Australians living with MS as well, so it’s really important research. Contents Editorial My goal is $1,000 and I am almost halfway there! I have walked 31km so far. Every incoming editor wonders what This week Honi breaks an exclusive I love walking to the dog beach - some days I get a bit tired and Mum & Dad have their term taking care of this paper story on St Andrew’s (p.6), detailing to carry me the last bit of the walk - but this morning, I walked the whole 4.6km so Editor in Chief: I am spending the rest of the day in bed (see below), can’t wait! Who? Weekly / 3 Lara Sonnenschein will look like. It’s safe to say that whilst instances of hazing, sexism, and I entertained many thoughts in my white nationalist sentiment within the You can see my fundraiser page here, find more pictures here of me on my walk and recovering from them! & track my progress on Strava! News / 4 Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, head, I never anticipated we’d be cov- College. That all we have reported on Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, ering the biggest event of our lifetimes, has occurred post Broderick Review, Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara for the most part separated from each with the aim of ‘cultural renewal’ is Investigation / 6 Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, other in our bedrooms. I miss campus enlightening. Indeed, those that were Interested in reporting or Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, deeply — sitting leisurely at Hermanns weary of reviews, and superficial making art for Australia’s Analysis / 8 Lei Yao as friends pour in and out like the jugs tinkering seem to have been proven only remaining weekly we laugh over, watching people pick up correct. This story provides the Write, student newspaper? Email Opinion / 9 Contributors: Soo Choi, Victoria our weekly edition off the stands, and inspiration for this week’s cover. us at editors@honisoit. Cooper, Samuel Garrett, Hall the way that this pandemic has stifled Drawing on the work of pop artist Roy create and com or message us over on Greenland, Deaundre Espejo, spontaneity in our social interactions, as Lichtenstein, my wonderfully talented our Facebook, Twitter or Perspective / 10 Phoebe Evans, Catherine Ku, Claire (p.16) so eloquently writes about. friend Aidy has drawn a fictional Instagram pages. Lauren Lancaster, Aiden Magro, With USU voting occurring online occupation of St Andrew’s College. produce for Feature / 12 Will Solomon, Bianca Watkins, this week, I’m even nostalgic for in- In particular, I’d like to thank Nudes, declarations of Claire Ollivain, Jeffrey Khoo person campaigning, the free beer 1966 Honi editor, Hall Greenland for vouchers handed out at Manning as returning to this paper’s pages to pay affection and hate mail Culture / 14 Carriageworks stories and polling draws to a sunset close, and tribute to the legendary Jack Mundey Honi Soit may be sent to: photographs: James Bradshaw, of course the famous anti-Liberal (p.11), Samuel Garrett for his excellent [email protected]. Multilingual / 18 Lawrence English, Ben Hanson, chants. Thankfully at least gossip (p.3) feature (p.12), my own reporters for Lauren Lancaster, Jenny Leong, transcends the physical realm. contributing, in large part to this edition, Creative / 19 Jacquie Manning, Madeleine Yet this crisis has both revealed and all whistleblowers who dare to Martin, Rhian Mordaunt, Steph and exacerbated existing inequalities speak out, even when it puts their safety Sekulovska on campus. 40 per cent wage cuts and wellbeing at potential risk. SRC / 20 have been applied to USU staff, the This is the penultimate edition of Weekly Artists: Ash Duncan, Michael University wants to gut 30 per cent of Honi this semester, the last regular one Arts and Social Sciences courses and as the Queer Collective edits next week. Comedy / 23 Lotsaris, Emma Pham, Shania Jordies jab! but by the kings of streaming themselves, Netflix. Whos tryna be us? the government has once again shown I’d like to wish them good luck, and O’Brien, Honglin Xie Our article from last week, titled ‘ADORABLE: complete disdain for international give everyone else my best wishes for Annoying accent-faker FriendlyJordies released The Stranger Things kids all tried heroin together for Despite this year of Honi not even being half over, student welfare. The residential colleges upcoming exams. Have a restful winter Cover artist: Aiden Magro a 40-minute video this week exposing everyone’s the first time!’, obviously caught their eye, as a Mr. we’ve heard rumblings of ambitious tickets already sit almost empty, as students have break, and I hope to see you on campus favourite representative body: the Australian Joey Levine (a ‘who’), a representative for Netflix’s emerging to enter the fray come September. On the returned to heated homes, even as First soon. Back cover artist: Ellie Wilson Taxpayers’ Alliance (ATA)! 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We’ve also noticed some lonely independent the advertisements and insertions. Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. to see her - likening group photos of Julia and her floaters hungry to hop on a ticket, but unfortunately ATA associates to a ‘Virgins Anonymous meeting’. It looks like the curtains are slowly closing on have not found a home yet. These include Daring Naughty Nick Forbutt’s USU President dreams as Daany Saeed and Cream alumni Keen Kate Scott, CoRpoRaTE SeLl OuTs fOr UsU!!! Rogue Ruby Lotz is nominally locked out of a USU both of whom are trying to recklessly accumulate preference deal, receiving no second preferences as many student journo credits before the election A scathing page has popped up on our Facebook from any candidate. With Plotter Prudence as possible. We also thought Notorious Nicole newsfeed - Corporate Sell Out for USU. With Wilkins-Wheat locked into a three way deal with Baxter might be throwing her hat into the ring, but as many likes from Trots as an Ashtanga yoga Antisocial Ada and Vigorous Vikki, Rogue Ruby is she has firmly denied this allegation over a Twitter appreciation page, it is clear who the true culprits only receiving Plotter’s fours. Of course she could argument with Dangerous Doon himself. are. SAlt members seem to have taken a break from still get elected should her primary vote be high posting photos with cardboard placards expressing enough, yet it makes things difficult and Prudence’s Arrogant Abbey solidarity to an echo-chamber of like-minded three way deal surely comes with a vote-for-Benny friends. Instead, they are now taking aim at left- clause attached. The Panda-Groots relationship Arrogant Abbey Shi made an appearance on wing/centrist USU Board candidates to an echo- is certainly stronger than when Dangerous Doon ABC’s flagship 7.30 program last Monday. If an chamber of like-minded friends. At least this page Donohoe and Jerk Jacky He almost got into a fist- article released afterwards is anything to go by, it is mildly original, unlike the Harry Styles for USU fight. Indeed, we hear that now #cancelled USU seems the journalist, and perhaps Abbey herself, page (whoever is stealing our jokes, beware), and it Board candidate Wacky Wayne was initially in on incorrectly believed the SRC was helping to provide joyously captures the egotism of all student politics. a four way deal and even wanted Panda to support accommodation to students. It’s enough to make Dangerous Doon over Jealous Josie Jakovac last one wonder how involved Abbey really was. Netflix vs a literal student newspaper year… Do we see an SRC alliance on the horizon? Ultimately, it seems that she certainly loves the Time will tell... limelight — her job, not so much. 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2 3 NEWS Alexis Roitman resigns as USU CEO FASS casuals call for halt to proposed course cuts Chuyi Wang, Lara Sonnenschein and Ranuka Tandan report. Nina Dillon Britton reports. Alexis Roitman has resigned from her Honi was sent two conflicting press period, suggesting the split may not a 40% staff wage cut announced two More than 100 casual staff in the see this year. “Just this semester we have done workers are offered work informally, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences But a University spokeswoman told crucial work helping the University sporadically, and verbally, with contracts position as University of Sydney Union releases today, the latter of which have been on friendly terms. The weeks ago. The USU has also faced (FASS) have signed an open letter to the Sydney Morning Herald that the transition to online delivery, putting in processed at the very last minute, and (USU) CEO. Hired last year, Honi Soit confirmed Roitman’s resignation. USU announcement follows widespread backlash for a lack of transparency in Vice Chancellor Michael Spence and cuts were unrelated to the coronavirus, even more unpaid hours than usual and with little regularity in work,” meaning understands that Roitman was on a six President Connor Wherrett has clarified criticism of the USU for recent financial their Board meetings surrounding the Arts Dean Annamarie Jagose calling and they were made to ensure that investing financially in the infrastructure that “it seems unlikely that this clause month probation period contract. that the first of these was an ‘old decisions made in response to the aforementioned pay cuts. for a halt to proposed course cuts. the faculty “operate sustainably in the needed to run online classes. will substantively protect casuals at As per USU regulations, an Acting document’ that was sent inadvertently. coronavirus. FASS staff have been informed that medium to long term”. In the same “To find ourselves on the precipice UNSW who have already lost work.” CEO will be appointed shortly. The USU The timing of Roitman’s resignation Such decisions include the standing almost a third of courses offered would statement, the spokeswoman stated of unemployment after performing this The framework would also not has named Director of Commercial is particularly unusual due to the down of the majority of the USU’s have to be cut next semester to reduce that the number of courses to be cut as important but mostly unpaid work is protect casuals who lose work as a Operations Jessica Reed for the role. COVID-19 crisis and her probation outlet employees last month, as well as the cost of casual staff. yet undecided. profoundly disappointing.” result of course cuts. The letter states that the proposed The letter also outlines the harm Casuals are amongst the hardest hit University of Sydney staff are not cuts would have a “devastating impact” proposed cuts would have for students. under the National Tertiary Education entitled to the JobKeeper payments, on casual staff “who do the bulk of “In FASS, we are responsible for Union’s (NTEU) proposed National after the gGovernment changed USU Board candidate Jiale Wang disqualified teaching in FASS, often in difficult coordinating units of study, delivering Job Protection Framework, announced eligibility requirements. conditions and without full financial lectures and tutorials, marking students’ last Wednesday. The NTEU has called for a compensation.” work, and guiding students individually Under the Heads of Agreement the National Day of Action on 21 May from election The University has been inconsistent in their university education. NTEU’s leadership negotiated with for a government bailout of the higher in its explanation of the proposed “For the vast majority of students, universities, casuals with a “reasonable education sector. Nina Dillon Britton and Chuyi Wang report. course cuts. their university experience is absolutely expectation” of getting work would be Nina Dillon Britton is a signatory of the Staff have been told that the cuts indissociable from their relation to protected. open letter. Panda USU Board candidate, Jiale Arbiter by other USU Board candidates, Practice at Annual Elections’ in section nine candidates in the race for five are related to the $470 million revenue casualised staff and to the roles they But as a statement from the UNSW Wang, has been disqualified from the including Liberal-affiliated candidate 8.10 of the USU Regulations. Board positions. This leaves only three shortfall the University estimates it will play as tutors, lecturers, and mentors.” Casuals Network notes, “casual election following a decision by the Ben Hines. In the messages Wang states that he international students in the race; last Electoral Arbiter, Magistrate Theo Earlier this week, Pulp published “will forgo all my salary as a hidden year, three of six USU Board Directors Tsavdaridis, which overruled an earlier screenshots of WeChat messages sent fundings for next year’s election or elected were international students. FASS casuals’ open letter temporary suspension of Wang by the by Wang, offering to share his USU activities. (please don’t leak this to the Honi Soit has reached out for Dear Doctor Spence and Professor reduce the Faculty’s spending on to casualised staff and to the roles supporting them through their Returning Officer, James Hoare. Board stipend with members of his outside as this does not comply with the comment from Wang, but he did not Jagose, casualised staff. Yet, this decision they play as tutors, lecturers, and studies. We want to deepen our The disqualification comes as the political faction, Panda, if he were regulation).” respond in time for publication. As casualised staff members means that many of these staff mentors. We bring many years of research experience and produce result of an appeal made to the Electoral elected. Bribery is listed as a ‘Forbidden The disqualification leaves only from the Faculty of Arts and members will soon be unemployed experience—in some cases decades— knowledge for the public good. And Social Sciences, we ask that you during what is projected to be to our teaching and research. we want to do all of this in secure immediately reverse your decision Australia’s worst economic recession Just this semester we have done jobs without the ever-present threat to cut up to thirty percent of units of in decades. To make matters worse, crucial work helping the University of unemployment. study in FASS. these workers will have no access to transition to online delivery, putting Doctor Spence, Professor Jagose, USyd to delay Semester 2 by three weeks These cuts will not only the Jobkeeper payment. in even more unpaid hours than the University has a choice about Nina Dillon Britton and Lara Sonnenschein report. undermine the scope and integrity There is no University of Sydney usual and investing financially in how to respond to the present of students’ degrees. They will also without its thousands of casualised the infrastructure needed to run crisis: it can either use casualised have a devastating impact on some staff. In FASS, we are responsible online classes. To find ourselves staff members as financial shock The University of Sydney (USyd) is measures. staff, Vice Chancellor Michael Spence prospective students to enrol. of the most vulnerable members for coordinating units of study, on the precipice of unemployment absorbers, or it can invest in those pushing back the start of Semester 2 by At this stage, it is unclear whether stated that the reopening of campus will of our University community—those delivering lectures and tutorials, after performing this important but who have worked so hard and with three weeks, with classes now set to be- classes will return to campus or remain depend on “further health advice from However, the border closures, which hundreds of casualised staff who do marking students’ work, and mostly unpaid work is profoundly such passion to make the University gin on Monday 24 August. The semes- online, though pushing back the dates the Australian and NSW governments.” have stopped tens of thousands of the bulk of teaching in FASS, often guiding students individually in disappointing. of Sydney as successful as it is. ter will be 12 weeks long, a week shorter seems to indicate a potential return to The move comes after the Federal international students returning to in difficult conditions and without their university education. For the We want to continue making As FASS casualised staff, we call than usual. some on-campus learning in Semester Education Minister, Dan Tehan, classes will likely remain in place. full financial compensation. vast majority of students, their our essential contribution to the on you to reverse your decision to The decision comes after weeks of 2. publicly pushed last week for universities The University has previously We know that the decision to cut university experience is absolutely University community. We want to cut units of study and instead to uncertainty as to what would happen, Staff have been told that plans for to reopen next semester. announced that it projects a $470 following a campus closure for most online teaching remain in place, as plans The University has said the decision million revenue loss from coronavirus- units of study was taken in order to indissociable from their relation keep teaching our students and give us the secure jobs we deserve. of this semester, which has seen classes for the gradual recommence of face-to- was made to allow further time for related enrolment drops this semester. shift online amidst the coronavirus face teaching are considered. teaching staff to prepare online learning pandemic and enforced social distancing In an email announcing the delay to courses and to allow more time for

University of Queensland student facing expulsion for activism Matthew Forbes reports. The University of Queensland (UQ) Pavlou’s potential expulsion was also non-award program of study at the external influence on our processes” will be deciding whether they will ex- in part due to his vocal criticism of the University”, hence the alleged damage following the public support shown to pel fourth year student Drew Pavlou, University’s several connections to the to UQ’s reputation. Pavlou by various Australian MPs. an elected representative on the Univer- Chinese state, which include the CCP’s The National Union of Students have UQ’s treatment of Pavlou is indicative sity’s Senate, in a disciplinary hearing co-funding of at least four of UQ’s condemned UQ in a statement released of a broader trend within Australian next week. courses and the naming of Xu Jie, the yesterday that deems the university’s universities of stifling free speech on Pavlou’s public activism against Chinese consul-general in Brisbane, as a actions an “attack on free speech.” campus via university misconduct the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faculty member. “Student representatives should not systems. - especially on campus - was the main Last July Pavlou was assaulted at a be punished for speaking out against the Last year, Honi reported on how this focus of a number of the allegations rally he led on the UQ campus, which inaction of university administrations, manifests at the University of Sydney. outlined in a 186-page document sent to called for the University to sever ties to do so undermines the role student Indeed the University’s own Student him by the University last month. with the Chinese government. He later representation and student unionism on Discipline Rule (SDR) also refers to Among the allegations was a claim asserted that his attackers were set upon campuses [play] to its core.” prejudicing the good name of the that Pavlou had “prejudiced the him by Xu, whom he took to court for The University’s handling of University, as with Drew’s case. reputation of the University” through making him susceptible to threats and the process leading up to Pavlou’s The disciplinary hearing which will posts he had made on Facebook attacks by accusing him of anti-Chinese disciplinary hearing has also been decide Pavlou’s fate will take place on regarding the humanitarian situation in separatism. questionable, threatening to deny him Wednesday 20 May. Hong Kong which were positioned as These posts resulted in “at least one legal representation during the hearing statements on behalf of the university. (1) student withdrawing from their and denouncing “attempts to exert

4 5 INVESTIGATION

“white power” was graffitied on a most recent events are appalling, campus is completely unacceptable.” Racism, sexism, hazing: New allegations surface over memorial to a deceased St Andrew’s but they are by no means isolated The University, however, was College student. Honi understands incidents at St Andrew’s,” Funnell not aware of any of the incidents that the graffiti was done within says. “There is a long history of detailed above. When contacted, behaviour at St Andrew’s College the past year. When questioned on sexism, misogyny and racism within Elizabeth Broderick stated that St whether the College knew about the the college; it’s like asbestos, it’s in Andrew’s had not been in contact Lara Sonnenschein, Nina Dillon Britton and Madeline Ward report. incident and had investigated it, St the very walls.” with her since the Review occurred. Honi can reveal several new alle- LGBTQ pride flag in 2016. she was left in rural NSW as part mums” following a Mother’s Day Andrew’s Principal Wayne Erickson Emma says that staff responses A college culture resistant to gations of racist, sexist and hazing The Broderick Review laid out of “walkabout.” The group was event at the college. Another, from said, “This has previously not been have been unsatisfactory. “There’s change remains. Emma says that incidents which have occurred at St a number of recommendations for allowed only $50 between them, and September 2019, discusses a resident reported to me…I would be grateful been a lot of complaints from girls students who spoke out against the Andrew’s College since the Broder- “cultural renewal” at residential had to hitchhike back to Sydney. hitting on a 50 year old woman, for any information you might have to the VP of college regarding the college in 2016 remain the focus ick Review into Cultural Renewal colleges, including an end to hazing “So it was really demeaning to be with college men in the comment (time and date) which will allow us ‘lad’ behaviour of boys,” she says. of hatred “even now.” “Ultimately at Residential Colleges report was rituals, the development of a “harm auctioned and the event itself was thread referring to each other as to investigate it further.” “But ultimately it just turned into college is a bubble that exists in its released in late 2017. minimisation” alcohol policy and a dangerous,” she says. “tunnel buddies” — a reference to In another instance, a current an awkward conversation in the own world, distinct from reality. Written by former Sex specific sexual misconduct policy, Post-Broderick Review, group sex. A separate post from the St Andrew’s student posted in the Highlander Bar, post-dinner with Drew’s survives on secrecy, and Discrimination Comissioner along with greater gender diversity participating students were asked to same month contains a timeline of a college students’ Facebook group the students club to discuss what denial of its issues.” Despite the Elizabeth Broderick, the review in student leadership. As a result sign a consent form, doing nothing previous evening’s events, including saying that she’d lost her guinea pig, was inappropriate behaviour.” platitudes offered by the University was a million dollar report into of the report, St Andrew’s College to remove the significant social the entry “[redacted] roots a girl and if found it would respond to the These incidents support fears that of Sydney and St Andrew’s College, sexual violence at the University committed to a “policy of zero pressures on students to participate. while his dad is passed out on the name “Adolf”. Honi understands the Broderick Review would be used it seems that very little has changed of Sydney’s residential colleges, tolerance to hazing and sexual “Everyone knows that unless you floor.” that the student deleted the post as a tick-a-box measure for residential at all. with the exception of St Paul’s, misconduct, harmful alcohol, use, go to Highlanders, unless you drink, For some, a mention by “Drew’s after a period of time, but not before colleges to respond to embarrassing who joined on later. Criticised by harassment and damage to property.” unless you participate in group stuff, Buffet” is a point of pride. “I know other students had “haha” and scandals, rather than impetus to anti-sexual assault activists for its St Andrew’s lists the outcome as you’re probably gonna have a shit that for a lot of people being tagged “love” reacted to it. engage in the deep structural and Students are also known to cultural reform necessary. Indeed, St If you have any more information superficial approach, the report being “accomplished” in their time at college,” Emma says. by buffet in these posts is almost a on this story, cultural renewal at the neglected to include case studies 1-year progress report. St Andrew’s “Getting students to sign consent cool thing because it shows that the defecate, urinate and vomit in Andrew’s appears to have deleted its common areas of St Andrew’s. This own Broderick Review report from colleges more broadly, or anything or quotes from survivors, and Principal, Wayne Erickson, tells waivers so that institutional things you’re doing matters and that that you think is in the student only conducted a small number of Honi that he believes that the college responsibility is abnegated is the you matter,” Emma says. is an expected occurrence after nights its website. interest, please feel free to contact interviews with current and former has now implemented all of the very opposite of cultural reform It’s unclear to what extent the at the Highlander and Salisbury (the Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence, us at [email protected]. Should college students. The review failed Review’s recommendations. and accountability,” Red Zone Report college administration actively bars of St Andrew’s and St Paul’s, has said that whilst “we’ve made a lot you wish to remain anonymous, we to mention the scandal-ridden But concerningly, hazing lead author Nina Funnell tells monitors the page or the student respectively), and such behaviours of progress in terms of implementing will respect that. Alternatively, you history of the colleges or include practices known as “walkabout” Honi. “Students should be provided Facebook groups, but a 2012 post on occur “pretty frequently.” structural changes to encourage can send us an anonymous tip. We the events in 2016 which led in part at St Andrew’s continued after the with a safe living environment, not the Drew’s Buffet profile from the indicates that the administration is A post from May 2019 in a closed cultural renewal...this doesn’t mean only receive your message, and the time and date of submission. to the commissioning of the report, publication of the Broderick Review. asked to sign waivers accepting that then-Dean of Students promoting aware of its existence. St Andrew’s college Facebook group shows a our work is done. Racism and any including articles from Pulp Media “Walkabout” — a hazing ritual they understand the environment the college’s public Facebook page College failed to respond to a video of faeces left in a hallway, with other form of intimidating, abusive question concerning the extent to the caption “WARNING: Someone or discriminatory behaviour on our If you are a student at the University and Honi Soit on Wesley College’s in practice since at least 1997 — is unsafe.” Though the forms were of Sydney and you wish to report “Rackweb”, St Paul’s “Bone Room” involves the auctioning of first year issued by the Student Club, Emma which the College monitors any has taken a massive shit on the students’ Facebook groups. second floor of main. Watch your an instance of sexual assault or and sexual violence at St Andrew’s students to second year students. says that staff were aware of misconduct to the university, you This is particularly concerning step.” The hallways are a common itself. First years are made to kneel on walkabout, and “that sort of thing can do so through the university’s In response to the perceived hands and knees during the bidding. could not have happened without the given a history of unsavoury social target of faeces, and urine and vomit reporting portal, available on their failings of the Broderick Review, Popular students are sold for several greenlight from staff.” Walkabout media use at Sydney University’s are often found in the showers. The website (sydney.edu.au/students/ End Rape on Campus Australia hundred dollars, and less popular was cancelled in 2019. residential colleges. The Red Zone clean up is left to college staff. sexual-assault.html). The student published the Red Zone Report in students are sold for as little as $5. St Andrew’s declined to respond Report details a St John’s College Such behaviour is not isolated to liaison officers can be contacted for early 2018. The report found that 1 The money is donated to charity. to questions regarding whether ritual called “the Purge” where hallways and showers, with students assistance in this process through in 12 female St Andrew’s students First year students are then made hazing rituals still occur within students were invited to share also defecating in the bedrooms of their email (safer-communities. [email protected]) or by calling to perform different tasks for the the College, and failed to provide embarrassing photos of themselves fellow residents. Honi has obtained had experienced attempted or 1800 SYD HLP. completed rape or sexual assault buyers. One student told Honi that Honi with details as to whether any and details of sexual encounters. In an image shared in a messenger 2009, St Paul’s College came under conversation between two former since commencing — the joint she was made to steal and break students had been suspended or If this article has caused you highest rate of all the colleges. street signs. First year students expelled from St Andrew’s in the fire for a “pro-rape” Facebook St Andrew’s students, showing a page, and again in 2017 for a man, naked from the waist down, any distress you can reach out to Other notable incidents include the are then forced to drink copious past year. the following organisations for words “enter the halls of misogyny” amounts of alcohol, and afterwards Other toxic elements of college Facebook group with sexist posts who has defecated in the room of a assistance: spray painted at the College in 1993, taken to unknown, often remote, culture have only become more describing having sex with women female student and fallen asleep on residents advertising their 2006 areas and left to find their way back secretive. Though St Andrew’s has as “harpooning whale[s]”. her floor after she had left her door Free counselling through RPA formal with the slogan “More Moles, home. abandoned the “Lolly Buffet” where Though the Broderick Review open overnight. Sexual Assault Clinic 9515 9040 More Holes”, and the burning of an Emma* told Honi that in 2018 students announced recent hookups canvasses harmful uses of This behaviour recalls similar (Monday to Friday, 8:30am - over the college’s PA system social media, reporting that instances described in the Red Zone 5:00pm) (including an instance where an approximately 8 per cent of students Report, including a 1986 incident RDVSA NSW Rape Crisis Hotline 1800 424 017 (24hrs, 7 days) alleged sexual assault was broadcast at St Andrew’s had witnessed where male St Andrew’s students to the college), similar activity is “inappropriate commentary/ would break into the Women’s images/film distributed on social College and masturbate in their now run online through a Facebook *Name has been changed. profile “Drew’s Buffet”. The page media without consent,” none of corridors, to more recent reports of its recommendations specifically male students ejaculating into the posts about recent hook-ups in a Information in the timeline taken closed college resident Facebook pertain to social media use. shampoo and body wash bottles of from The Red Zone Report. group. Honi can also reveal two serious unknowing female residents who One post, from May 2019, shows instances of white nationalist would then wash themselves with results from a poll of the “hottest sentiment at the College. In one case the semen and product. “These

1930 1947 1986 2016 2017 2018 St Andrew’s magazine details hazing St Andrew’s students are reported running St Andrew’s students throw eggs, bags Honi Soit publishes an article on the ‘Bone Room’ After a 2016 national survey, the AHRC The Red Zone Report is released including giving freshman a bath in a through the corridors of the Women’s College, of flour and firecrackers at college Pulp Media publishes an article on the ‘Rackweb’. Change the Course report on sexual violence on horse trough, plastering them with bad principal. masturbating. The St Andrews student club is Australian university campuses is released. fruit and flour. fined $4500.

1939 1978 1993 2016 2017 ‘Soup Night’: St Andrews seniors force Honi Soit reports on instances of rape and sexual assault that, St Andrew’s advertises their ‘informal’ with Kendra Murphy tells the Sydney Morning Herald that she was raped The Broderick review into College Culture at freshman to lie in a mix of sand, oil, according to the Women’s Collective, have been reported to slogans such as “ride them home and drop by a student at St Andrew’s college, and that details of sexual the University of Sydney is released. rotten fruit and mollases. the University and “hushed up” by the administration. your load”’and “buck your girl”. encounters between students are broadcast over the PA system.

6 7 ANALYSIS OPINION Queer ecology: Reimagining “nature” International students are trapped in exploitation Catherine Ku on the structural barriers international students face in reporting exploitation. and sexual politics The 7-Eleven wage scandal in 2015 re- can comfortably speak their native request their legal wages, employers definite deportation amnesty for students vealed the systemic vulnerability of mi- language. utilise the threat of visa cancellation who report exploitation. Currently, the Deaundre Espejo on how queer ecology allows us to reconstruct and reimagine environmental justice. grants and international students to ex- According to a survey conducted or deportation to silence them, as in blanket policy of exposing all breaches ploitation in Australian workplaces. As by Sydney University business school Alawala’s case. Currently, the law gives to visa cancellation in section 116(1) one example among many, international academic Stephen Clibborn, out of 274 them legal backing. (b) of the Migration Act, regardless Andre Gides’ Corydon tells the story of however, moved away from these high seas, the battlegrounds, outer student Pranay Alawala was underpaid international students working part- Furthemore, if a student reports an of severity, nature or circumstance, a young shepherd that falls in love with ideas. Recent work has attempted space” to retrieve an “essential part more than $30,000 by a 7-Eleven fran- time, 60 per cent were paid less than employer for exploitation, it doesn’t increases students’ fear about reporting another shephard, engaging in same- to reclaim the “naturalness” of of themselves, their identity, their chise in Brisbane. However, when he minimum wage, with 35 per cent paid only affect themselves. Employers will employers. This legislation should be sex passions and musing about the queer bodies and liberalise sexual manhood.” confronted his employer about his owed $12 an hour or less. Amongst Chinese have to fire other employees because reformed to reserve the penalties of visa mysteries of sex with women. The name minorities. For sexologists such as But these visions of a wages, the franchise’s lawyer sent him a students, 73.5 per cent were paid less they cannot afford to hire, which cancellation and deportation only for Corydon was used as a stock name for a Havelock Ellis, the fact that non- ‘heteromasculine wilderness’ letter threatening to report him to immi- than minimum wage. means other international students will serious breaches of visa conditions. shepherd in Ancient Greek poems such heterosexual sex is congenial allows could not be farther from the truth. gration for working more hours than his It’s clear that international students also lose their incomes, and probably Furthermore, successful case as Virgil’s Eclogues. However, while it to be morally neutral and therefore According to sexologist Alfred Kinsey, visa allowed. are being exploited. But why do the struggle to find another job. Of course, examples have not been publicised Virgil’s Corydon was a shepherd who part of the narrative of evolution, in the nineteenth century there was For those on student visas, visa majority not report their employers? reporting may also expose other by the FWO, increasing the fear that longed for another boy, Gides’ Corydon rather than its aberration. Research more sexual activity between men condition 8105 mandates that Under the Migration Act 1958 international student workers to the risk international students may have. is a sophisticated individual deciphering also documenting the vast range of in the remote wilderness than there international students are only allowed (Cth), it is an offence to breach a visa of visa cancellation and deportation if Following a recommendation put same-sex passion, natural innocence homosexual behaviour in non-human was in cities. Various worksites in the to work up to 40 hours per fortnight condition that restricts the work one can they have also worked over the 40-hour forward by the University of Adelaide, and opposite-sex eroticism as a learned animals also presents possibilities Pacific Northwest such as logging while their course is in session. Whilst perform (s 235(1)). By working more work limit. the FWO should post examples social order. He comes to the realisation for radically rethinking nature as camps and fishing grounds included grappling with costly international than 40 hours a fortnight, international Obviously, the exploitation of of successful stories on its website that “a friend... is of better counsel to an queer. Bruce Bagemihl’s 750-page complex networks of sexual activity student fees and living expenses, many students have breached visa condition international students is a systemic and social media platforms to raise international students struggle to find 8105, and are therefore liable to visa issue, and targeting employers who awareness about the legal ability of adolescent boy than a mistress.” volume Biological Exuberance among men, and some men would Corydon was influential in shaping work due to their lack of Australian cancellation and deportation (s 116(1) engage in exploitative wage theft would the FWO, and encourage international presents an extensive compilation even leave the city in search of them. work experience, language difficulties, (b)). For students who have undertaken address the root of the problem. But students to report exploitation. the later field of queer ecology, a prac- of species in which same-sex acts At the same time, queer women tice which seeks to disrupt heterosexual lack of local contacts and restricted the daunting journey of moving to an in order to do so, students must report Debating whether or not to remove have been scientifically observed. experienced a complete invisibility in working hours. Without other options, unfamiliar country, and who often bear their employers. the 40 hour working limit is another articulations of ‘nature,’ to reimagine These appeals to nature have been dominant wilderness discourses. evolutionary processes and ecological many students accept employers’ offers the emotional burden of fulfilling the To some extent, the Fair Work debate in itself - perhaps it is interesting powerful, especially when science is More recently, the framing of to work for more hours, but at below hopes of their families back home, visa Ombudsman (FWO) has recognised that the government relaxed the work interactions, and broaden environmen- purported to “reveal” nature’s truth. queer culture as exclusively urban has minimum wage - usually cash-in-hand. cancellation is an unimaginably high how the law inhibits international limit from March to May 2020 to tal politics in light of queer theory. However, such assertions of the erased the ongoing presence of queer Rather than occurring at big risk. The tradeoff is disproportionate: students from reporting, with Natalie account for the economic downturns Drawing upon the work of ecofemi- “natural”—whether heterosexual bodies in rural communities and has companies like 7-Eleven, the majority whilst a student risks losing their James assuring that students can seek of COVID-19. But at the very least, nism and environmental justice, it seeks or homosexual —essentialises contributed to the assumption that of this exploitation takes place in small dreams, an employer most likely faces assistance without visa cancellation, international students should feel safe to draw important connections between sexuality to material conditions; a country spaces are inherently hostile businesses, especially in the retail and fines. At worst, the Redfern Legal even if they have worked more than the to report exploitative work conditions, the material and cultural dimensions of product of some innate biological to anything other than monogamous hospitality industry. In particular, Centre notes incidents where employers 40-hour limit. and shouldn’t have to fear losing their environmental issues. trait rather than an expression of heterosexuality. While many gay employers usually speak the language have gotten away without consequence But international students need visa and the dreams that it enables. The distinction between what is agency. Queer ecologists challenge men and women leave small towns and therefore are able to attract students because students were deported before more than an ‘assurance’. A concrete ‘natural’ and ‘unnatural’ has long these biopolitical regimes, arguing for urban centres, many do not — who desire a workplace in which they their claim finished. Even when students guarantee would require providing been used as ammunition in battles that sex is always indivisibly material queer couples reside in 99.3% of all waged against queer bodies. The and social. David Bell coined the American counties. rise of evolutionary thought in the term queernatureculture to criticise The emerging practice of queer nineteenth century centred on the binaries between what is natural and ecology has reclaimed natural spaces Renewables stimulus essential for economic recovery primacy of sexual reproduction for what is cultural, and to emphasise the as sites of resistance and exploration species survival and development. ambiguity of queer sex acts. Animals for sexually diverse people. In Sarah Consider Darwin’s ideas on sexual are cultural beings, enmeshed in Orne Jewett’s writing, particularly from COVID-19 selection in The Descent of Man, social organisations with agency in her novel Deephaven, natural which observes that certain traits in Phoebe Evans thinks renewable energy should be a central part of Australia’s solution to COVID-19. over their sexual lives. By uncovering environments are sites of both animals have evolved as a result of these complex realities, we open up romantic friendship and eroticism COVID-19 has presented a unique movement in Mackay, mobilising in global standing through exports. The of coal mining under a Greater Sydney mating competition. This has served a space to rethink nature and sexual between women. Ang Lee’s opportunity to finally overcome the support for the Adani Carmichael coal Australian Energy Market Operator reservoir to legitimise procreative heterosexual politics. Brokeback Mountain contrasts two political inertia surrounding climate mine and the jobs promised through released a ground-breaking report in These policies are clearly aimed at acts as the only true form of ‘natural’ Spaces of nature have been sheep herders’ frayed heterosexual action. And it is not just environmental it. The promise of job opportunities in April, stating that Australia has the appeasing worker grievances. However, sex, denaturalising all other forms organised to promote and relationships in the 1963 Wyoming to activists and scientists pushing the idea Mackay demonstrates the persistent capacity to run a power grid on 75% they are ultimately short-term fixes. of sex unless they can be explained this time, but a range of businesses economic arguments underlying the solar and wind energy by 2025 with Smarter developments in renewables prohibit certain sexual behaviour. their deeply romantic “high altitude within the overall operation of and industry groups recognising that advancement of renewable energy technologies that are already available. are being sidelined in favour of attempts Emerging discourses around fucking” in the wilderness. reproduction. Sex came to be the shift to clean energy is not only a projects in regions dependent on the Whilst environmentalists and scientists to save fossil fuel industries, with urban development in the late A queer interpretation of ecology understood not as a set of acts, but necessary course of action, but a smart fossil fuel industry. Yet Tony Wood, have been promoting these changes for environmental goals of moving towards nineteenth century articulated that blurs boundaries of identities and as expressions of an innate biological one. the energy program director from the decades, it has taken a global pandemic a zero-emissions future being sidelined. the ‘effeminate homosexual’ and liberates queer people in their condition. The sudden and unprecedented rise Grattan Institute, has argued that the to meaningfully engage businesses The extensive media coverage of ‘lesbian gender invert’ were not only connection and belonging to the in unemployment, already estimated government is cheating the nearly By this logic, if the ability of and industry. The Business Council of COVID-19 has seemingly provided an against nature but symptoms of a natural world. The natural world at 6.2%, compels a reflection on how 100,000 Australian carbon workers by Australia has argued strongly that every opportunity to hide environmentally- a species to survive in nature is moral and even “physical” decline of defies current heteronormative future disruptions can be best prevented. letting them think their protests against “dollar we invest in energy, should damaging decisions, despite states tied to its reproductive fitness, the American population, attributed politics, enabling humans to redefine It is becoming increasingly clear, as clean energy development will hold in a be a dollar towards a lower carbon vocalising support for clean energy. The then “healthy” environments are to urban sociality and pollution. cultural understandings of “natural” lockdowns around the world persist, future predicated on renewable energy economy.” It is government policy that states do appear to be ahead of federal those in which heterosexuality The natural world was therefore and “queer” environmental spaces that future-proof jobs do not lie in fossil on a global scale. is hindering this necessary and highly policy change however, with the federal flourishes. Accordingly, homosexual transformed into a space in which as we have with sex and gender. It fuel industries but in renewable energy. This is not to say that these workers conceivable shift away from fossil fuels. government not represented at either degeneracy has been explained away The International Energy Agency will lack employment. Instead, the At a surface level, state policy online energy summit. The federal heterosexual masculinity could be also serves as an important basis using pollution or environmental (IEA) released a damning report for fossil creation of renewable energy plants seems to be shifting towards clean government has instead promoted a recultivated, free from the influences for coalition building, since both contamination, factors which fuel industries, indicating that during would provide masses of new job energy development. Online summits fossil fuel-powered pandemic-recovery of urban degeneration. queer and environmental justice are believed to interfere with the pandemic, the demand for gas has opportunities. Potential employment presenting the need to frame the based on gas, despite evidence of The American wilderness became perspectives observe nature and reproductive capacities. Some dropped by 5%, and coal by 8%. Only figures are estimated by the Clean COVID-19 recovery around climate its diminishing economic viability. heavily dominated by communities of the environment as not neutral or ecologists have insisted that female renewable energy remained resilient Energy Council to be at 50,000 action were attended by representatives Unsurprisingly, the federal government men - cowboys, prospectors, rachers. ahistorical. Rather, we can look to to the global drop in energy demand. homoerotic activity amongst seagulls construction jobs and 4,000 ongoing from each state and the ACT. For has not addressed how this sits with Boy Scouts and mountaineering how the language of nature can Renewables are already cheaper jobs. The Grattan Institute further instance, Queensland’s premier pursuing emissions reductions. is evidence of habitat changes, or expeditions provided opportunities mask human and environmental than new coal power in two-thirds of finds that new industrial development indicated that green hydrogen would The coal industry will not stand that sexual pairing of male ibises to simulate more conventional destruction. countries, whilst the cost of solar power in ‘green steel’ made with renewable overtake the state’s liquefied natural indefinitely, and by investing in fossil is a result of mercury poisoning (in paths to “manhood,” solidifying Ultimately, an understanding has declined by 85% in the past decade. hydrogen could employ 25,000 in gas exports, whilst SA’s energy minister fuels in the post-pandemic stimulus, reality, there are probably just a lot of a connection between conquering of environmental sexual politics, But what does this mean for the workers coal-intensive regions. Beyond Zero hoped for SA to run on 100% clean Australia would be passing up a once- gay birds). Such reasoning is guided wilderness and one’s expression of alongside existing discourse on race, in fossil fuel industries? Regional Emissions is also developing a “million electricity before 2030. However, these in-a-generation opportunity to boost by heteronormative biases⁠—the fact workers particularly have expressed jobs plan”, with potentially 300,000 statements do not indicate a complete the economy and create jobs in new heteromasculinity. In The History of gender and class envisages a possible that heterosexuality is more common frustration at their marginalisation jobs in a national energy “retrofit” drive energy revolution; the Queensland sectors, ensuring long-lasting economic Men, Michael S Kimmel tells readers future of common liberation. does not take away from the diverse in city politics, and have taken to the to render three million buildings more government has announced a support recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. that due to material conditions social relations of sexuality occurring streets to protest what they perceive as energy efficient. package for the oil and gas industry, and It is near-impossible to maintain the of urban life, “men have been in animal species. inner-city environmental movements. Australia’s abundant natural the Victorian government has decided argument that fossil fuel jobs are future- running away - off to the frontier, Art by Shania O’Brien Evolutionary thought has, Perhaps the most well-known protest resources mean renewable energy to lift the ban on onshore gas drilling. proof; now is the best time to ensure the mountains, the forests, the movement of this kind was the pro-coal is a ticket to advance Australia’s And NSW has approved an extension that the Australian economy is.

8 9 PERSPECTIVE OBITUARY My eating disorder made me feel like a “bad” feminist Vale Jack Mundey Anonymous on reconciling her eating disorder with feminism. 1966 Honi editor Hall Greenland pays tribute to the legendary unionist. I am well acquainted with feeling like a fight the persistence of these value- as shallow as being thin. imposes on women, but women impose Because of Jack Mundey the Sixties Builders Labourers Federation (BLF). It any development in its tracks. These staff strike in the Arts faculty over the fraud. In tutorials, in meetings at work, systems. Despite knowing all of this, Moving through life as a woman is on themselves as a result: that you can were different in Australia. The United was a sad excuse for a union, but Jack Green Bans stopped the demolition attempt to prevent a course in Marxism even in writing pieces like this one — I I remained ashamed of my own body. a masterclass in shame. I cannot be too either be what history has told women States had Martin Luther King, was soon caught up in a reform drive of huge swathes of the Rocks and and feminism in the Philosophy am frequently plagued by the sensation And for that, I feel ashamed for feeling big, too thin, too loud, too soft-spoken, to be, or you can be a feminist. You Malcolm X, Mario Savio, Angela Davis, which by 1960 had democratised a Woolloomooloo, the alienation of Department. The threatened Green Ban that I am not good enough. To be ashamed about it. too sexual, too demure, too confident, cannot be both. Noam Chomsky et al; France had red- newly militant BLF. By 1970 he was its parts of Centennial Park and high-rise acted more as a boost in morale rather fair, this is nothing exceptional — it is I think at least part of my insecurity too shy. When living is inherently I felt that I was being disingenuous haired anarcho-communist Daniel undisputed leader. development on Sydney harbourside than a blow against the University reported that up to 70% of people will can be attributed to the fact that, as paradoxical in this way, perhaps it is when I called myself a feminist because Cohn-Bendit; Germany Rudi Dutschke; Along the way Jack had got land. administration which was not then the experience impostor syndrome at some arrogant as it sounds, I felt like I was no surprise that I felt I was a hypocrite I wanted the archetypal body that a Britain Tariq Ali and John Lennon. communism (and met his life-long It began in the most unlikely place, mega-developer it was to become a point in their lives. But what I find hard too smart to have an eating disorder. I in my feminism: because, women are patriarchal world had told me was They were all activist intellectuals partner Judy). It was a time when in refined haute bourgeois Hunters generation later. to justify is my feeling of inadequacy, as was too well-read and had studied too told they are too much, or not enough, perfect. But, to fall into the trap of the or students. That was typical of that Australian communism was in turmoil, Hill, when in 1970 a bunch of female The Greens Bans left their historic a woman, about my feminism. Despite much to fall victim to these patriarchal often both at the same time. But, just very system that I believe is harmful moment in history. Only Australia had splitting three ways: pro-Chinese, pro- resident activists asked Jack and the mark in another way too. Petra Kelly, my firm belief in feminist values, and mechanisms of society. When I began as feminism attempts to expose the does not lessen the worth of my the fact that my university years have counting calories, I would justify my hypocrisy of these images of “perfect passion, commitment or fervour for the a figurehead who was a working-class Moscow and independent. Jack joined BLF to help save Kelly’s Bush, an area who was to become the ‘founding featured a notable devotion to studying cause. I cannot be perfect, not even in hero. That was Jack Mundey, legendary the third tendency. He was always an of bushland on the harbour foreshore mother,’ so to speak, of the world’s and writing about gender, I often feel My struggle with eating is still ongoing. my feminism. As Charlotte Lieberman leader of the builders’ labourers union, first Green Party in Germany, visited that I am living a lie in espousing my writes on her past eating disorders, who died Sunday night aged 90. Australia in 1977 and met Jack Mundey feminism. Because, after discussions But I recognise that an integral part of my “susceptibility to whatever manifestation Jack Mundey combined in himself all and learned of his revolutionary where I would truthfully tell my female feminism is acknolwedging that I am not immune of patriarchal oppression…is the hand the leitmotifs of the Sixties. He was anti- ecological unionism. Back in Germany, friends that they should be confident in we’ve been dealt as women, and feeling war. He was anti-racist. He practised Petra insisted on the name ‘Green’ – in their bodies, I would go home and kneel to the structures that neccessitate my activism. guilty about our coping mechanisms civil disobedience. He was a champion conscious tribute to the Green Bans – at the toilet bowl. isn’t going to help any of us.” of the environment. He was a supporter for the party ex-Sixties radicals formed I am committed to the core insights obsessive label-reading as a by-product women,” we should also open our eyes My struggle with eating is still of women’s and gay liberation. He in 1980. of feminist theory, that women are often of my resolution to eat more plant- to the hypocrisy of the notion of the ongoing. But I am now trying my best advocated participatory democracy The Sixties came to an end in reduced to our reproductive capacities based food. I would claim that I was “perfect feminist.” to recognise that an integral part of – it was called self-management then Australia with the fall of the Whitlam and so, our bodies do not belong to us, just so busy that I hadn’t had time to eat Women are always being told that my feminism is acknowledging that I – everywhere. He introduced it and government in 1975. Coincidentally the but to patriarchal society at large. And anything until I got home at 10pm and they are falling short — even in their am not immune to the structures that practised it in his union. He defended Maoist federal leadership of the BLF I am aware that eating disorders are would eat an apple. The secrecy was feminism. Sexist notions theorise that necessitate my activism. My eating the idea of socialism with a human sacked the Mundey-ite leadership of in many ways socialised illnesses that not driven by fear of ostracisation by feminism is a movement for women who disorder does not mean I am not “good face and condemned the Russian- the BLF in New South Wales. As in the flow from those traditions — stemming those around me — I knew they would “will never find men,” women who are enough” to be a feminist — it’s another led invasion that snuffed out the case of the Whitlam coup, there were from strict normative beauty standards have been supportive. But I didn’t want “too ugly,” women who are “too loud.” good reason to be one. experiment in democratic socialism in protests but the mood for reform had in a society that diminishes our value their support — what I wanted was to To tell a woman that she is “too pretty Czechoslovakia. soured and the federal intervention won to our bodies. For years, I have vocally be skinnier. And I just couldn’t bring to be a feminist” exposes the harmful And yes, he wore his hair long. He out. supported feminist movements which myself to reveal that I wanted something binary that not only the patriarchy might have preferred a beer to a toke, Jack was far from finished and was but he had no problems with dope elected to the Sydney City Council in smoking. He was as much at home with 1980 as part of a radical push. The libertarian bohemians (of which Sydney Council majority was too radical to A crip’s account of coronavirus in the 1960s had more than its fair share) be left in charge of the city’s business as with building workers. district and was sacked a few years later Victoria Cooper is having a great time. Jack’s origins were classically Jack Mundey’s first successful green ban stopped development of Kelly’s Bush in Hunters Hill by a state Labor government. Sourced from NSW State Library Twitter. Over summer, I spent six weeks in offer is my experience. In a word: I have I have been able to fearlessly network of wallpaper? Those cute little snippets Australian working class. He was from By then Jack had been elected a wheelchair. It was a trying time bloody loved it. with representatives from various where your ‘at home’ identity had been North Queensland, once known as activist, making his appearance as a slated for an apartment development. president of the Communist Party, but it — everyone else was flaunting their Digitally streamed concerts, plays organisations without concern that my exposed scrapes the surface of the the ‘Red North,’ the only part of the public militant when he was arrested What is often forgotten or overlooked was a ‘hospital pass’ as they say in rugby hot, able bodies around Sydney and seminars have torn down ableist unexplained ring splints make me look blurry lines between public and private country to ever elect a Communist in one of the first anti-Vietnam War sit- in the celebration of the Green Ban league, as the party was in terminal shores, while I grew paler and saggier, barriers and made attendance possible. like an untrustworthy punk. In fact, conversation commonly experienced by emotionally sustained only by the tiny Mosh pits are death traps (fight me), the general concealment of my splints, those with visible disabilities. Jack Mundey combined in himself all the leitmotifs of the Sixties. He was anti-war. He was anti-racist. He practised thrills of karting around my kitchen in and COVID-19 has made concert braces and taping has helped me avoid Feeling a bit stir-crazy stuck at home civil disobedience. He was a champion of the environment. He was a supporter of women’s and gay liberation. my grandmother’s motorised pensioner attendance a possibility for me, and a lot of awkward conversations (“what is another taster of the experience scooter. While everyone else soaked others, who can’t do crowds. I’ve been did you do? Sports injury?” – “yeah of being someone with mobility Party MP – Fred Paterson back in the down protests in 1965. movement is that it was from its decline. When the Party disbanded in up artisan coffees from very cool, very able to watch the Sydney Theatre nah, all my joints are just structurally issues. You lying in bed all day, binge 1940s. He came to Sydney in the 1950s He became famous, of course, inception a response to an upsurge of 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet urban, clearly very Instagram-worthy Company’s live table reads of plays gelatinous” – “… okay”). This semester watching Sex Education and dreaming cafes, I became extra-hyped on my to play rugby league football for a club because of the Green Bans. This was local community movements against Union, it was more than natural that without first having to check for disabled is the first in three years that I haven’t about being able to go to a bar, is you one instant Moccona for the day that in the proletarian western suburbs, the name given to the practice of the over-development in the late 1960s and Jack and Judy joined the Greens. After parking, or mentally prepare myself for dipped into my special considerations. reliving my summer break. However, coursed through my thin-blooded body Parramatta, which he did for three BLF in banning the employment of early 1970s in Sydney. Green Bans were all, its politics were theirs. The four at a nauseating pace. the long walk down to the ‘Bar at the I think that’s telling. when I’m housebound with crippling seasons. He did that on Saturdays; any builders’ labourers on contentious typically imposed only after citizens in a founding principles of the Greens – joint pain, I don’t have ten to fifteen In hindsight, spending six weeks during the week he worked as a builders development projects. As almost neighbourhood called for them. ecological sustainability, participatory B-grade celebrities from Channel 10 completely housebound was incidental With uni online, I have not spent a single morsel labourer. Naturally, for those days, all builders labourers were union Green Bans came to Sydney democracy, social justice and peace and condescendingly reminding me that training for the limitations of physical he was a member of his union, the members, a Green Ban would stop University in 1973 during the student- non-violence – sum up Jack Mundey’s of my mulla on an Uber between Redfern Station ‘times are tough.’ I’ll take that as a win. distancing in 2020. I’d hate to flex, but credo. The fact that my quality of life and I’ve been preparing for this moment for and the Social Sciences Building, or on tolls The man of the Sixties had found ability to participate in public spaces months. his natural home. Right to the end and petrol driving to campus. has improved during a time when most The coronavirus lockdown has he continued to support citizens in been an interesting time for people people are feeling severely limited, is an End of the Wharf.’ You might not have realised, but your indictment on our profit-driven way of campaigns against the wrong kind of with disabilities. For many, it’s been growth, whether it was coal mines, a punch in the delicate guts — a time Avoiding the logistics of travel has experiences in lockdown have probably life. Our fast-paced lifestyle, the need been mint. With uni online, I have not made it easier for you to sympathise for hands-on, in-person experience and fracking, heritage demolitions or the of feeling particularly overlooked and expropriation of public land for upscale disposable (yeah by the way, that time spent a single morsel of my mulla on with people like me. For those with the usual lack of accessible options is an Uber between Redfern Station and disabilities, the walls between public uniquely burdensome for people with apartments. He’s gone, but his example people hoarded vital medications was remains. La lutte continue, as they say. not cool!) For some, transitioning the Social Sciences Building, or on tolls and private life are porous. Few would disabilities.This time of lockdown begs to a life online with disrupted audio and petrol driving to campus. Being have experienced the awkwardness of the question: why are we expected to and blurry screens has been seriously able to avoid well-meaning stares as I explaining the daily struggle to brush keep up rather than help establish the disadvantageous and, for others, life at limp from class to class has also been your own hair in a professional context, pace? a distance has worsened pre-existing welcomed, and should I lock a hip or but zooming from home has put cracks As restrictions ease for some, how conditions, especially mental health. slip a rib ‘walking’ between classes, bed in your walls too. Remember that time do we prevent accessibility restrictions It is virtually impossible to capture the and the next meeting is about a metre you had to apologise for Zoom call from rising up again? range of experiences for people with away. interruptions caused by your cat, or Sydney University students support the disabilities in this time, but what I can Now my internships are online, your kids, or your obnoxious choice New South Wales Builders’ Labourers Fund. Source unknown. 10 11 FEATURE Many have blamed the coronavirus, All of them means which arrived in Lebanon on 21 February, for the death of the revolution. Yet the reality is that the protests were ALLSamuel Garrett on the birth andOF death of the Lebanese THEM revolution. losing momentum even before the first Tear gas tastes how a razorblade looks – clean, sterile movement was responding to far more systemic Marks of violence and protest are spread throughout case of coronavirus was confirmed but with a cold, vicious edge. It is a taste that became issues than international media implied in framing downtown Beirut, with broken windows, burnt-out in Lebanon. all too familiar for many in Lebanon throughout the it as ‘WhatsApp protests’. Within a fortnight, the banks, and protest art common sights, and behind it first months of this year. We were having dinner in a government had resigned. But the protests were not all, an overt military presence with squads of soldiers epicentre of the protests, has been largely empty and to deteriorate. central Beirut restaurant when a group of protestors just a rejection of a single government, but of a broader and armoured vehicles patrolling the streets. In the quiet, despite the six-metre high fist that has become a One of the primary demands of protestors was the streamed past in the street below. A white cloud of gas, political and economic system of corruption and weeks after October, public spaces that had been co- symbol of resistance continuing to defiantly stand at establishment of a technocratic government, headed mixed with the acrid smoke of burning tyres, drifted clientelism that has robbed people of their livelihoods opted by protestors, including the streets themselves, its centre. Many have blamed the coronavirus, which by apolitical “experts” who could devise a solution in through the restaurant’s open windows. Although and young people of their futures. In Lebanon, the began to be retaken by the state. Demonstrations arrived in Lebanon on 21 February, for the death of the to Lebanon’s political and economic woes. A new, revolution. A strict lockdown has prevented gatherings supposedly technocratic government was sworn in on against a confidence vote in the new government on ةروث we moved to a back courtyard and the waitstaff closed protests are described almost universally as a the windows, the steady flow of food from the kitchen “thawra” – revolution – and while it is not an armed 11 February saw an almost complete shutting down of and the ruling elite have attempted to capitalise on the 21 January but was immediately rejected by protestors continued uninterrupted and the backgammon games rebellion, it has certainly been revolutionary in the downtown Beirut by security forces. crisis by reclaiming what legitimacy was lost in the who denounced the links between a number of new of patrons were unperturbed. This contrast of violence social awakening that it has precipitated. Barricades and security installations manned by revolution. cabinet members and existing political parties. and chaos with the everyday, of living with the People throughout Lebanon speak of a sense of soldiers brandishing automatic rifles and the occasional Yet the reality is that the protests were losing However, from the beginning the desire for a seemingly unliveable, has been a staple of Lebanese pride and unity felt in the early days of the revolution rocket-propelled grenade now draw dividing lines momentum even before the first case of coronavirus technocratic government has faced serious questions life since the days of the 1975-1990 Civil War. and of the emergence of a purely Lebanese national through the centre of the city, cutting people off was confirmed in Lebanon. Despite occasional over what form this would take, and indeed its Yet, it would be a mistake to assume that this identity, free of partisan or sectarian connotations and from traditional gathering places and squares. The resurgences, particularly on the swearing in of the viability in a country that has experienced a serious tolerance represents aloofness or apathy. Anger caveats. Rather than singling out one party or sect, streets for entire blocks around the parliament have new government and the passing of their first budget, brain drain in the years during and since the Civil lies just beneath this surface of normality and runs the revolution was a revolt against the entire political been barricaded by security forces for months, with turnout had been falling through the winter and up War. Given the persistence of the Lebanese oligarchy, deep across almost all of Lebanese society. Modern and social elite, neatly summed up in the ever-present an ever-greater fortress of concrete, steel and barbed to a week could pass with relatively little disturbance. there are few experts at the head of their field without With the eventual passage of the budget, it seemed some tie to the existing political structure. Most of all, all of them means all of wire insulating politicians from the people in the“ – نلك ينعي نلك Lebanon stands at a crossroads of crisis, facing a chant swathe of challenges that decades of mismanagement them”. surrounding streets. to many that there was little more to be gained from the cause of Lebanon’s problems runs deeper than and corruption by its leaders have left it perilously The divisions these elite have wrought in Lebanese As winter passed, however, the protests began to street demonstrations. simple mismanagement. Any successful government unprepared to deal with. society, both economic and physical, are obvious to change in form and tone. Jubilant crowds of hundreds Arguably, a principal cause of this apparent would be forced to confront and address severe The legacy of colonialism continues to cast a Lebanon has been gripped by unprecedented mass any visitor. Lebanon faced an extremely uncertain of thousands became smaller, more mobile groups of failure has been the movement’s lack of structure systemic problems, a task beyond the reach of purely long shadow over Lebanon, and foreign powers and protests since October 2019. Early on, hundreds of economic outlook even before the coronavirus ravaged protestors, and violence became a more regular feature or leadership, ironically a source of its strength in bureaucratic solutions, interests have much to answer for in the perpetuation thousands of protestors gathered in a movement what was left of the imploding Lebanese economy. of demonstrations. A clear split began to emerge over the revolution’s early days. Without a clear political Understanding Lebanon’s issues requires an of these divisions and the exploitation of Lebanon remarkable not only for its scale, but for its universality: Despite the universal denouncement on the streets the viability of the revolution and the use of violence agenda or designated spokesperson, the revolution awareness of the background of austerity and and its resources. Under the control of the Ottoman cutting across the social, political and sectarian divides of the country’s economic situation, the multimillion to achieve its goals. In the eyes of some, violence was was able to attract mass appeal, serving as a conduit corruption that has defined Lebanese political history Empire and, later, France, Lebanon’s early power- that have riven Lebanon throughout its history. Unlike dollar yachts of the Zaitunay Bay yacht club in the only tactic to which the state would respond, and for the outpouring of all forms of political and and social development since the end of the Civil War sharing systems, conflicts and current borders have all previous protest movements, which were largely central Beirut paint an all-too-obvious picture of the which could hope to achieve results. But for others, economic grievances. It was immune to accusations in 1990. Lebanon never went through a reconciliation been heavily influenced by the geopolitical interests of confined to Beirut, demonstrations were held in cities extreme wealth disparities that exist. Not everyone it was driving down turnout and playing into a of partisanship or sectarianism, and its momentum process after the Civil War. Instead, plans for the foreign powers. across the country. has suffered in the days since the civil war – politicians government narrative that the protestors were vandals could not be stopped simply by arresting a series of country’s recovery, spearheaded by billionaire Lebanese banks form a cornerstone of the political While initially sparked by a range of economic and businessmen have amassed vast fortunes, even as and rioters. figureheads. Yet this same lack of leadership hampered Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, focussed on extensive system, harnessing foreign remittances to provide the measures including a tax on WhatsApp calls, the Lebanese citizens struggle to survive day-to-day. More recently, Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square, the its organisational capacity and left it unable to produce development and reconstruction, most notably in state with extremely high-interest bonds that have a viable, widely accepted alternative to the present the devastated downtown Beirut area. Soldidere, a contributed to catastrophic levels of public debt. political structure. Against this background, the company in which Hariri had considerable financial The government defaulted on loan repayments in existing political elite remained the only body capable interests, was granted almost unlimited purview to March, much of them owed to local banks. While the of filling the vacuum left behind by the government’s raze and rebuild the city centre in the name of progress. revolution was a response to an already dire economic fall. With limited government oversight, there was a outlook, the coronavirus has pushed the Lebanese Further, others argue that a class divide began to near-total removal of boundaries between the public economy into total meltdown. An artificially high emerge on the streets. Certainly, as the weeks wore and private sectors. Reconstruction thus developed currency peg has produced no less than four parallel on, those who continued to demonstrate were largely into an elite resource grab and economic free-for- foreign exchange market rates. While officially the either those with the means to do so, or those who all, entrenching corrupt clientelism that has directly Lebanese pound is pegged at 1500 pounds per US had nothing more to lose. But for many, the realities contributed to the state of the country’s economy dollar, the currency has collapsed in recent months and Rather than of survival did not permit them to remain on the today. on the black market the rate is nearing 4000 pounds to streets as the country’s economic situation continued The historic Beirut downtown area has now been the dollar. Sky-high inflation is now placing enormous singling out replaced with glass towers and the old souks with a upwards pressure on prices, raising living expenses to gleaming mall selling expensive international designer levels that were untenable for many even before the one party brands. It is a soulless place, and nearly deserted. By mass unemployment precipitated by the coronavirus some estimates up to 23 per cent of Beirut apartments lockdown. or sect, the are unoccupied, largely owned by international Particularly affected have been thousands of migrant investors and wealthy members of the diaspora. Many workers who work under the exploitative kafala system revolution of these apartments are in the downtown, which of sponsorship and whose meagre wages, denominated despite its emptiness and wide streets, feels sterile and in Lebanese pounds, are now virtually worthless. Even was a revolt claustrophobic. for those fortunate enough to have reasonable savings, A significant achievement of the revolution has extreme capital controls limit bank withdrawals and against the been the reclaiming of some of these public spaces transfers to and from the country. By some estimates, for public use. A miniature tent city sprung up in half of the Lebanese population could soon be living entire political Martyrs’ Square offering food and accommodation. in poverty. It is this economic catastrophe which will Barriers to previously closed private spaces such as define any future protests and the course of Lebanese and social elite, “The Egg” — an abandoned, unfinished cinema social and political development. overlooking downtown Beirut — were torn down and The confluence of Lebanon’s crises has produced a neatly summed the spaces converted into locations for public lectures moment of reckoning for the country and devastated and discussions. its most vulnerable. The revolution failed in its attempt Many of Lebanon’s political issues are rooted in its to establish a new political order. But its success in up in the ever- confessional political system. Seats in the Lebanese opening a new arena for political discourse in Lebanon parliament are divided along religious lines. The should not be overlooked. The unifying sense of present chant president must be a Maronite Christian, the speaker national identity felt in its early days, though brief, is – of parliament a Shi’a Muslim and the prime minister deeply imprinted across Lebanese society. Whether the a Sunni Muslim. Though this system was credited revolution will begin anew once lockdown measures نلك ينعي نلك with securing social stability in the wake of the Civil are eased remains to be seen. There have already been “all of them War, in practice it has entrenched the political power demonstrations in cities around the country in recent of a small number of former militia leaders who were days. If nothing else is certain, it is that Lebanon’s means all The revolution at its height intimately involved in the Civil War and who now sit at problems will not disappear, but neither will the anger the centre of extensive sectarian patronage networks. of them”. last year. Photos: AP. of its people and their desire for change.

12 13 CULTURE Memories from Carriageworks The limits of the Biennale for meaningful Edited and compiled by Matthew Forbes, Chuyi Wang and Lara Sonnenschein. Earlier this month, Carriageworks, Australia’s largest multi-art centre, announced that it would be going into voluntary administration. A short walk from Sydney University’s Abercrombie Building, Carriageworks has become a staple of Sydney’s cultural scene, using its 17 venues to host awards ceremonies, art galleries, theatre productions and seminars, to just name a few. political criticism Throughout its 13 years of existence, it’s provided a space for unrestrained creative expression and diverse, radical ideas. We reached out to a number of people with fond memories of the Aiden Magro believes the political strength of art is not being used to its full potential. precinct — from former employees, to artists and audience members — to provide a glimpse into Carriageworks’ importance, and why we can’t afford to let it die. We hope that these memories will play a small part in the fight to save an iconic cultural institution. Since Venice established its first biennial due to the Biennale of Sydney’s ties offering a platform to deconstruct a statement, why can’t art go even exhibition of Italian art in 1893, we to Transfield Holdings, a company them. further in critiquing the borders that “It is impossible for me to share just one memory of Carriageworks – images fly “Last year I worked backstage at Fashion Week, and it was the coolest experience! have seen many different iterations that held an investment in Transfield Law of the Journey (2017) colonialism has so verdantly drawn? in to my head of the countless performances I have seen as part of Performance Carla Zampatti’s show with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra playing the of biennial exhibitions of national art Services. These six artists withdrew featured a 60 metre-long boat filled Why can’t it go beyond established Space programming, independent programming or festival seasons, dancing in middle of the runway was by far the highlight - but we had to stay back for three hours forms, in the form of the biennale. A their work due to Transfield Services’ with refugees made from rubber arts institutions and exhibitions and the middle of a sweaty crowd while Jesswar performed, slurping up piping hot after the show scratching the silver foil off the runway with our bare fingernails!!” pho at the Saturday markets surrounded by fine food and delicious smells, tasting - Lauren Lancaster, Fashion Week volunteer biennale is an international art festival contract with the Australian manufactured in a Chinese factory instead find its voice in interregional beer at a craft brewing festival, experiencing vast visual art installations in the which occurs every two years, and Department of Immigration to which also constructs vessels used conversations? Art has a real possibility main space like Zhang Huan’s Sydney Buddha, and watching Australian music There are many venues in Australia and there are many arts centres. They curates artworks that culminate in a work on the detention centres on by refugees seeking asylum in other to be a tool for change, a tool that is not legends including The Presets and Sarah Blasko play at FBI Radio’s 10th birthday all contribute to how we form a sense of ourselves, culturally, socially showcase of the diversity of the region it Manus and Nauru. An additional countries. The work is certainly dual being used to its full potential. celebrations back in 2013. I also love wandering around this space when there are and even politically. Beyond pure inspiration and joy, they provide us is exhibited in. With the Venice Biennale 41 artists wrote an open letter to the and paradoxical. On the one hand, Perhaps the thing that prevents the no people around, soaking up the heritage, the histories and the memories of the with creative mechanisms to ask difficult questions, they allow us to as a blueprint, the biennale’s goal is to Biennale of Sydney urging them to the larger than life piece, meant to work from successfully critiquing social past. We must keep this precious public space and institution in public hands.” ponder uneasy problems through divergent media and they invite us to provide a platform for contemporary art reconsider their partnership with the make the viewer feel the monumental injustices is the sense of fixed place that - Jenny Leong, Greens Member for Newtown dream of the possible futures that we action through our day to day lives. practices which are underrepresented in company embroiled in the human scale of the global refugee crisis, is is inherent in the Biennale structure. There is however only one Carriageworks. museums and galleries. This has meant rights violations of the Australian troublingly haunted by the biennale’s Kataoka asserts in her post-curatorial If people asked me about what I felt about Carriageworks, I would reply with a that many other instances of biennales Government. While the boycott was prior complacency on cruel mandatory statement that the “significance of a simple statement - Carriageworks is a benchmark for the kind of curatorial vision have deviated from the Venetian successful and ties were cut with detention. On the other hand, its biennale does not merely consist of that is profoundly needed in this country, and especially Sydney! Carriageworks model which has become the same Transfield Holdings, this incident positioning in the biennale is also gathering existing artworks in one is a beacon, a shining light of possibility for how art, music and culture can institution it used to offer an alternative calls into question the true function troubling, as the exhibition focuses place.” While it is true that the artworks be radical and at the same time draw in audiences and moreover send them home with experiences that continue to resonate long after they have passed. to. For instance, the establishment of of the Biennale internationally. Can on going against Euro-American exhibited in a biennale are made Carriageworks hailed the experiences of art not merely as spectacle or hollow the Havana Biennale in 1984 was an it truly be a platform for artists to centric visions of contemporary precisely for the biennale, the argument entertainment, but as transformative, life altering encounters that carry forward. expression of the amount of art being present subversive art forms and art while acting within the Euro- that they are not made for one place is I have had the pleasure to curate part of the music program at Carriageworks made in the Global South that had gone meaningfully critique borders and the American centric visions of nations not necessarily true. If this were true, since 2015; specifically Room40’s Open Frame Festival and in 2019 a special unrecognised. idea of the nation? and how they should be divided. In the idea of the biennale would not be so presentation of the legendary Japanese free music unit Marginal Consort. Today, the hundreds of biennales In 2018, under the Artistic its attempt to draw Australian artists rooted in the idea of the nation. Would For over half a decade, I have been able to share my musical obsessions with around the world function in many Directorship of Mami Kataoka, into the cultural stream, the schematic the art works of Ai Weiwei not function some 500 curious others each evening in Bay 20. It was without question one different ways, meaning the relation the 21st Biennale of Sydney: system of the Biennale of Sydney better as political critique through a of the most satisfying and inspiring curatorial projects I have ever undertaken. and artistic exchange between them SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & is admirable, but the festival’s own more collaborative, independent and Personally, Carriageworks also offered me a wonderful reminder of the value has evolved in very political forms. Engagement did not centre on any role in the nation building project interregional exhibition? of support. On numerous occasions, Lisa Ffrench and Lisa Havilah (and in A biennale, as Peter Sloterdijk would one theme, but instead attempted to of Australia is rarely critiqued and Perhaps the name recent times wonderful folks like Rosie Fisher and Daniel Mudie Cunningham), argue, has the ability to reproduce present a variety of different concerns. the works that are exhibited in them “SUPERPOSITION” is more accurate Photograph: Steph Sekulovska reminded me that there is inherent value in this work. There is a cultural different nations and their socio- Borrowing the term “superposition” seem to be “superpositions”; dualistic than I give it credit. All future iterations “I went on a first date to Carriageworks to see the opera ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ legacy that is built and that legacy is not merely the space within which the political relations in a gallery space. from quantum mechanics, its goal and paradoxical, critical and yet of the international art festival will directed by Kip Williams back in 2017. It was the most weird first date I’ve ever work unfolds, but it is the combined efforts of all the amazing humans that toil This political nature of course brings was to elaborate the duality and complacent, outside of the nation and have to grapple with the paradoxical been on - opera singers dramtically singing about Ancient Rome, suicide and to realise it. This is what Carriageworks really is; it’s the people who worked with it the state’s economic position paradoxical ways that humans within it. idea of a biennale, which at surface sexual assault isn’t my idea of a romantic time. But in a shocking twist of events there and the people who visited. They were the flesh of this architectural to the arts; as a market, as patronage, inhabit Earth through the artworks of In another work, 4,992 Photos level, seems to be an encouragement of I ended up dating that guy for over a year. Carriageworks will always have a skeleton and to them I am eternally grateful to have shared these experiences. and as something for economic 69 artists from 35 different countries. Relating to Refugees, which lines international exchange of art and ideas special place in my heart and I’m forever grateful for all the times I’ve been able to Carriageworks is what our art centres should be like - its lungs gain. The Biennale of Sydney, first One such artist was Ai Weiwei, the gallery’s walls with photos taken but, when interrogated, is exposed for witness beautiful (and sometimes traumatic) art and theatre over the years there.” breathed a profound sense of curiosity, wonder and warmth. It’s a established in 1973, came under fire whose practice focuses on social by Weiwei on his iPhone during the its unbreakable link with the idea of the reminder of the wonder of possibility and the promise of imagination. - Rhian Mordaunt, USyd student in 2014 when artists boycotted the injustices with specific attention given filming of his documentary Human nation. As governments profit from the - Lawrence English, Artist and founder of Room40 19th iteration of the Asia-Pacific to refugee rights. The work of Weiwei Flow. What does it serve to plaster the subversive ideas of artists in national region’s longest running international fit within the overarching theme of faces of people who have been or would displays of “difference and diversity,” art festival due to such controversial the biennale but in an incredibly be denied access to our country in an one could say that the biennale plays economic ties. troubling way. The works seem to be exhibition which has both been literally a very vital role in nation-building, a In 2014, Libia Castro, Ólafur at odds with both the international tied with the forces that prevent them role that artists should critique from Ólafsson, Charlie Sofo, Agnieszka art festival’s partnership history and from seeking safety in the past and the outside of the biennale, rather than Polska, Sara van der Heide, Nicoline the general problem with biennales: fundamentally tied to the idea of the within it. van Harskamp, Nathan Gray, these biennial exhibitions seem to nation? The inclusion of this artwork Gabrielle de Vietri and Ahmet Ögüt uphold the idea of the nation through may seem like a protest levelled against withdrew their work from the festival mimicking its borders rather than the government, and while it does make

Photograph: Jacquie Manning I attended Open Frame: Room40 at Carriageworks in 2019, a two-day ambient and experimental music highlight that featured artists such as Stephen O’Malley of Sunn 0))) and industrial noise mastermind, Merzbow. It really changed my life. Photographs: Madeleine Martin To be able to see these artists that I had always heard were essential live acts in a “I was Monica Lewinsky’s bodyguard for fifteen minutes. place as accessible and well facilitating as Carriageworks. I honestly can’t think That was just one of the indelible experiences of my time at Carriageworks. of any other venue in Sydney that would have both chosen to present such artists The institution’s diverse programming, which spanned visual art, and have presented them in such an expert way when it came to audio quality and theatre, food and live music, meant that working at Carriageworks was audience experience. It will be another massive hit to Sydney’s artistic identity never dull. Truncating my myriad experiences is difficult, but some to lose such a vital and communal space for those working in any medium. highlights include having my aura portrait taken by Kate Mitchell for - James Bradshaw, Local musician her installation All Auras Touch, the bidaily activation of Tom Mùller’s As a fresh faced 19 year old, I attended the FBi SMACs Festival at Carriageworks in Ghost Line during the National 2019 and the monthly chef masterclasses 2016. I vividly remember running around the halls listening to and watching legends which ran in tandem with the weekly Carriageworks Farmer’s Market. of the Sydney music scene such as Sampha the Great, Palms, Cosmos Midnight, It was also a great privilege to work on the site of the Eveleigh and even future leader of the Labor Party DJ Anthony Albanese. Before this, my Railway Workshops, the birthplace of the Great Strike of 1917. A friends and I had only been to larger festivals like Groovin the Moo. This experience lesson to learn from this moment in Australian industrial history at Carriageworks turned me from a music lover to an obsessive. It was the first time I is that times of crisis do not have to erode the rights of workers. felt like a part of my local music community. I would return to Carriageworks many Ultimately, the most formidable aspect of working at Carriageworks times throughout the years, even returning earlier this year for the SMAC Awards was forming bonds with my Front of House comrades, as an FBi Radio volunteer, but that first gig is one I’ll always hold near and dear. with whom I stand in solidarity with during this sad time.” - Ben Hansen, Presenter at FBi Radio Ai Weiwei, Law of the Journey, 2017, reinforced PVC with aluminium frame, Ai Weiwei, 4,992 Photos Relating to Refugees, 01.12.2015–10.02.2016, - Madeleine Martin, Former Carriageworks employee 60 x 6 x 3 m. Photograph: Zan Wimberley (found on Biennale of Sydney website) wallpaper, dimensions variable; Installation view of the 21st Biennale of Location: Cockatoo Island Sydney Photograph: silversalt photography. Location: Cockatoo Island 14 15 CULTURE Reimagining the digital ether All-stars, Netflix and the future of reality TV Claire Ollivain on why films should catch up with the lexicon of social media. Jeffrey Khooexplores what rehashing our favourite characters might say about the future of reality TV. With our social lives now almost yet to seriously take on the language the dangers and stigmas faced by sex as interchangeable. The film leads us to A recent trend in reality TV of an Unscripted TV already costs less to after shareable hit with The Circle, Love it presents real, interpersonal drama, completely substituted by digital of social media is that it requires workers as the protagonist’s identity conclude that digitality frustrates love abundance of “all-star” seasons has make than scripted shows, and bringing is Blind, Too Hot to Handle, Queer such that it’s not quite reality, but a interaction, the limitations of forming collapsing the idea of a narrative into is mysteriously stolen by a virtual because it eludes carnal, non-rational emerged — bringing back memorable back old heroes and villains means that Eye, Nailed It and Next in Fashion, all heightened, curiously constrained and connections over cyberspace are more a tele-communicative scenario – time doppelganger. The action takes place knowledge by excluding the body. characters for another chance to win networks can rely on tried-and-tested featuring either brand-new concepts or altered version of it. Networks seem pronounced than ever. Gone are the unfolding in a single space that brings both offline, which is shown through Virtual reality is an outcome of the fame, glory and Instagram brand deals. talent which viewers will tune into. intriguing storytelling. Netflix benefits to be focused on manufacturing the times where we could make small talk together multiple spaces. Film theorist traditional film techniques, and online evolution of cinematic language as it It’s a long list: in February, Channel 10 It’s a strategy which should deliver from having a business model optimised next viral clip, or introducing the next with familiar faces in tutorials, weave Béla Balázs wrote that “we should turn where the actions of a mouse, sounds expands the aspect ratio to encompass premiered Australian Survivor: All Stars, reliable advertising revenue, all the for online; Joshua Rivera argues that controversial character for the public to our way through parties to bond with to the cinema so as to compile a lexicon of message notifications, and error an entire field of view. Steven Spielberg’s followed immediately by MasterChef more important for traditional networks reality TV is being “reinvented on Netflix flay alive, that they forget what originally someone new, or stoke the flames of of gestures and facial expressions on messages are used to communicate 2018 Ready Player One depicts both a Australia: Back to Win, which banked as Australians consume more content for our extremely online world”, with made reality TV so compelling: throw newly formed friendships by running a par with our dictionaries of words.” meaning. Cam draws on our collective playful fantasy of life occurring in a (correctly) on the familiar faces of past from on-demand streaming services. shows, while focused on entertainment, a bunch of complex, fallible characters into each other on Eastern Avenue. If film functions as a social toolbox anxiety about having our accounts video game-like virtual world and a contestants to ease the transition to This is a plausible theory. MasterChef also exploring questions of authenticity, into a situation where they are These acquaintances and casual friends and cultural machine showing what to hacked and losing the ability to control dystopic vision of the transferral of brand-new judges. Channel 7 attempted has easily had the warmest reception in perception and human connection. challenged, and simply watch how they are all still there, within virtual reach, yet desire, it needs to update its vocabulary what happens to our image, while also existing repressive structures into that My Kitchen Rules: The Rivals, with a while, whereas Australian Survivor Lauren O’Neill and Emma Garland interact. Make them step out of their it feels impossible to remedy the loss of for the new modes of interaction bringing to light camgirls’ experiences world. The major corporation (IOI) “fans” competing against “favourites”; comfort zone, and see them react with body language cues and spontaneity that brought on by digitality. of stalking and harassment. The seeking to take control of the virtual The Voice in 2019 featured returning humour, anger, grace or scandal. It’s make our conversations feel unforced. What can now be considered a replacement of real people by digital Oasis has its own carceral system contestants in the mix; and we’re waiting Reality TV is at its best when it presents real, what Netflix does so well, and it’s what When regular contact in digital spaces gesture or non-verbal expression in doubles has occurred quite literally where people in debt are kept in small for the next instalment of Bachelor in interpersonal drama, such that it’s not quite reality, makes recent successes like Love Island has formerly been preserved for online spaces disrupts conventional in the use of CGI to resurrect the chambers and forced into virtual Paradise, where problematic faves get a but a heightened, curiously constrained or Married at First Sight such addictive communication between already close ideas of the body, and though the way deceased James Dean for the upcoming labour. Though the protagonists defeat free Fijian vacation, an excuse to day- trainwrecks. friends, how do we prepare for the we use our devices as extensions of our film Finding Jack. This is a disturbing the evil corporation, the film doesn’t drink, and a chance at true love. and altered version of it. My favourite reality TV moment potentially ongoing digitisation of our bodies bears significance, its meaning is symptom of how digital technology, gesture to any further possibilities of Australia’s not alone in the all-star comes from Survivor’s first Final Tribal relationships into the future? often nebulous. For Balázs, embodied and by extension, commercial cinema, transformation aside from the fantasy game. In the US, Survivor, the original delivered a 94% increase in 18-to-49- point out that Netflix isn’t under the Council, where eliminated contestant Overshadowing every messenger gestures and facial expressions don’t is used under capitalism not to expand of escaping working-class conditions (and in my opinion, still the best) reality year-old viewers, compared to the same same obligations to please advertisers Sue Hawk, after being betrayed by her conversation, video call and Instagram signify concepts, but are the direct on creative possibility but to remix pre- through Oasis which has its own form TV show, just wrapped its 40th season, dates in 2019. But it hasn’t worked across and regulators as commercial networks, alliance, gets the chance to make a story, the likelihood that everything we expressions of our non-rational selves. existing material for profit. of currency and ownership. Though Winners at War, bringing back 20 the board; MKR had abysmal ratings and thus can proceed full steam ahead speech. She compares the two finalists do online will be permanently recorded Ready Player One’s haptic cyberspace champions to play for the biggest cash and is potentially facing cancellation. with more daring concepts. to the “snakes and rats” that infested already limits how open we are with equipped with physical touch and facial prize in reality TV history of $2,000,000. Ultimately, prudent financial So what does commercial reality TV the jungle they’d been living in, and others. Before social distancing, the expression are a far throw from the RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars has been decisions don’t always make for good need to kick its all-star habit? For one, lays bare the pain and barely-contained panopticon-like surveillance of digital present, its depiction of the freedom to a staple since 2012, and The Amazing TV, and one could view this all-star their production and social media teams rage she felt, all while feeling personally technology was enough to cause manipulate one’s appearance through Race in mid-2019 saw all-stars from glut with some sense of weariness. need to be attuned to shifting digital conflicted with having to award anxiety, but as we now attend classes avatars resonates with the issue of Survivor, Big Brother and The Amazing Some argue that all-star seasons, the patterns of consumption. It’s unlikely $1,000,000 to people who didn’t deserve and socialise mostly online it penetrates curating social media presence and Race gallivant across the globe. same show but just with different they’ll ever be able to take over Netflix’s it. It was an incredible, honest moment. further into our lives. Unless we choose catfishing. More hopefully however, Yet as I flicked through the channels, configurations of characters, indicate a niche, but commercial networks need to I’d argue that the 52 million people who to keep in touch by writing letters, our Ready Player One gestures toward the I couldn’t help but wonder: why? Why lack of innovation or a certain tiredness prioritise younger adults as an important watched it didn’t need more all-stars to interactions must necessarily take place liberatory potential of transcending this explosion of all-star seasons, and in the reality TV genre. demographic. know that. within a profit-oriented algorithm that somatic boundaries and biological what might it say about the future of But reality TV isn’t dead; instead, it’s But I think it’s ultimately simpler sells our data to advertising companies. determinism through the ease with reality TV? having a renaissance on Netflix. The than trying to find the next magic Not only is privacy a concern when which avatars change genders in Perhaps it’s simply about money. streaming platform has produced hit formula. Reality TV is at its best when interacting online, but our ability to the example of the character Helen. express meaning is restricted. There are Eventually realising the limitations of fewer audio-visual cues such as facial the fast-moving virtual world, the film expression and tone of voice to help ends with a message advocating the us understand intent when messaging. return to ‘authentic’ reality as a way On the state of fashion journalism Video calls might allow us to read of maintaining physical connections, facial expressions, but body language something which is impossible for us Ranuka Tandan explores the fashion journals that are going beyond surface level criticism of the industry. is far more polyphonic than what can n ow. fit within a screen’s window-like frame. In Arundhati Roy’s words, “the Fashion journalism is continually and it doesn’t use advertising, which is interdependent.” The increased focus critical thought and never be satisfied The internet is hostile to embodiment–it There are some things that we cannot Recognising the limitations of pandemic is a portal.” We can take this evolving and changing shape, however, makes it quite dense and wordy, but on bridging the gap between academia, until we have examined every theme chops our voices into uncanny robotic bring to light through words, likes, digital love, Spike Jonze’s 2013 filmHer opportunity to rethink the baggage that there is still a distinct lack of critical the ideas it puts forth are just genuinely politics, art and fashion is something intrepidly… advertising is forbidden”, sounds and dissolves our faces into images or reacts – which dominate our resonates with our collective nostalgia has been codified in existing iterations writing in mainstream and indie fashion very interesting. Vestoj means ‘clothing’ that Vestoj is very good at. It is by no “We will place academia and industry pixelated fragments. interactions on social media – but that for a return to physical contact. The of cyberspace and imagine new magazines, even those claiming that in Esperanto, a language that was made means the first publication to do this, side by side, and give equal significance One of the greatest drawbacks of arise unconsciously through our faces lonely protagonist Theodore falls in possibilities–for slowness, for openness, their independence gives them an edge. up in the late nineteenth century in an and it borrows much that has been in to both”, “Fashion must always be social video calls is that there is no and movements. love with Samantha, an artificially for transforming the multiple worlds It’s pretty clear that there is a need to attempt to unify the world. It seems discussion in academia for centuries, but taken seriously… We are as interested in potential for movement and proximity, Since it is likely that future disasters intelligent voice assistant installed we inhabit. This doesn’t mean we stop hold industry accountable, but when the naïve and idealistic that fashion — in bringing it to industry, and looking at the minutiae of clothing as we are in the for walking around a room and talking will lead to further instances of physical in his computer’s operating system. being critical of our relation to the land ‘hot takes’ that fashion magazines hold which relies so much on capital — can fashion on a much deeper, theoretical grand themes of fashion”. in smaller groups, making spontaneous separation, we need to seriously Her suggests another way that the we are on as we access online spaces up as proof that they’re challenging be held up as unifying when it so often level, it forces other independent fashion One of the most beautiful articles I’ve conversation. In Roland Barthes’ A interrogate how to open up fissures for existing social order is encoded into and nor does it mean we unquestionably the mainstream are as boring as “new divides people by class, gender and publications to consider theory as well, ever read was about the importance of Lover’s Discourse, his reflections on the non-rational expression and refuse the new technology; the Siris, Alexas accept that everything will stay digital sustainable line of clothing from culture. Yet this magazine is very much at least on a level of self-reflection. This fashion to homeless people. It described telephone resonate with the anxiety encoding of offline hierarchies onto and Cortanas of our time may not be post-COVID. As we have seen in our historically unsustainable brand shows of the view that you don’t have to be is especially influential, because fashion the significance of the garments they of Zoom calls, “the other is always in the online world. We need to transform programmed to understand themselves own lives and the films discussed here, a shift in industry thinking” it’s not even anti-fashion in order to be critical of media is easily as, if not more important own, not only for the fact that they a state of departure; the other departs these spaces so that they affirm our as gendered, but they perform services the desire for connection is often stifled worth pretending that that’s what you’re the way fashion operates in a capitalist than the word of brands themselves. provide safety, comfort and warmth, twice over, by voice and by silence: humanity and allow for genuine that are traditionally associated with by the language of the digital and it doing, really. Worse still, are the takes world, and that being critical of the Past themes of Vestoj have included but for what they say about personality whose turn is it to speak? We fall silent moments of connection. In the 1930s, women and have therefore been given a may never live up to the concreteness that headline: “why we need a radical way fashion operates in a capitalist masculinities, power, shame and capital. on the street, what they say about the in unison: crowding of two voids.” The Balázs argued that the nature of film feminine voice. In Her, Samantha’s voice of physical co-presence. Still, the fashion revolution” and go on to make world doesn’t mean that you can’t also The theme always comes first, according relationship that these individuals have, simultaneous absence and presence felt contradicts capitalist culture because it is always sympathetic with Theodore up imaginative activity of striving to make during Zoom calls is exhausting and “expresses the yearning for the concrete, to a certain point where she begins to the spaces we retreat to in times like the argument that the public should do enjoy taking part in it as a cultural to publisher and editor-in-chief Anja the ways in which it marks the passing results in frequent silences. We feel so non-conceptual, immediate experience assert her agency. Like Theodore, we these as accommodating as possible is away with fast fashion by choosing to phenomenon. Aronowsky Cronberg. She has an of time. There is demonstrative of the strongly the need to connect, but are at of things.” Presently, the tendency of evoke a hallucinatory mental image an act of love. More is to be done in art’s buy better quality clothing. Obviously, Academic writing on fashion advisory board that is made up of 50 per fact that there is a much deeper level of a loss for what to say and how to express mass commercial films is to reduce our of those we interact with in bodiless, challenge to the notion that the world anyone who persists with fast fashion cannot be separated from the fashion cent academic and 50 per cent industry fashion journalism out there, that goes it through the language of digitality. attention spans through frenzied cutting digital space. According to Paola is static; the future of cinema needs to is an Uneducated Loser (read: poor industry itself and is essential to representatives, which is essential to past advertising, and goes past surface Surprisingly, while social media and full sensory immersion. There is Golinelli, “the virtual excludes and gets re-invent the language of the digital person). holding the industry accountable. As helping maintain relevance to both fields. level ethical consumerism. dominates our lives it is not often radical possibility in reimagining digital us used to the absence of direct contact and virtual through its form. If we Vestoj is the best example that I’ve Yuniya Kawamura says, “institutions Vestoj’s editorial philosophy addresses written as such in films. We need new spaces to embrace an alternate logic of between bodies, with the complexities, don’t interrogate how existing systems found of a fashion journal that actually that help create and spread fashion, three central ideas; independence, artworks to make sense of the complete slowness and stillness. limits, fragilities and consistency that have mutated with the evolution of interrogates, critiques and uncovers not such as fashion magazines and quality of academic, interdisciplinary transferral of our interpersonal Playing off our anxieties about the physical co-presence carries with it.” technology, we risk accepting the only the underlying trends and issues newspaper periodicals, are participants content, and the gratification of the connections into cyberspace, to help digital ether, the horror and thriller When Samantha finds someone willing fracturing of our relationships online as within the fashion industry, but also in the system... the link between the reader. The manifesto states: “We must us understand the potential and the genres have found strong interest in to act as a surrogate body to unite the only possibility there is. the operation of fashion in global and production/distribution of clothing and remain independent in thought and danger of the surrogate worlds we have the language of social media. The them in flesh and blood, we realise the individual ways. It’s not super visual, the dissemination of the idea of fashion action. We must actively encourage created online. Part of why film has 2018 Netflix originalCam explores perversity of the perception of bodies Art by Emma Pham

16 17 MULTILINGUAL CREATIVE A course to roam 女性，你因何仍在被束缚？ Words by Bianca Watkins. Words by Lei Yao Around a month ago, my boyfriend recounted a scene Road, she told the bus driver her dog had died. My Ultimo. He paces back and forth fuelled by angry, he witnessed while waiting for a bus at Railway Square: eyes and ears shot to attention, though it already incomprehensible mutterings. a woman walked up to a man and asked him for a felt intimate with just the three of us on this ride. Once my partner forgot to lock his bike. When we 自古以来，理想女性就被塑造成 严重的问题，受害者往往是女 极少的外来者身份问题的困扰。 女性的自我保护和来自身边人 cigarette. He said sure, but she’d have to roll it. With She asked the bus driver, “Where do you think dogs returned to it, it was manned and claimed; a young 柔美且顾家的形象。而性别不平 性。除此之外，黑人女性或者亚 还有其他社会团体的支持仍然十 terms accepted, this mutual engagement escalated. go when they die?” The bus driver replied softly but woman bounced her weight side to side, an impressive 等正是这样一个长期并且显著的 裔女性也容易比白人女性受到更 “本是同根生，相煎何太急。” 分重要，前者让女性意识到被压 Almost instantly the man confessed he’d been kicked loudly, “I’m not sure. What do you think?” She asked boxing stance from such a small body. Surrendered, we 问题。是长期以来女性被社会结 多的倾轧。 这句来形容曹氏兄弟之争的诗 抑的自我的重要性，从而正视自 out by his wife earlier that day. The woman replied by if their souls roam around the earth for forty days. watched from a short distance as she told us to keep 构，文化语境以及经济地位上明 句，也适合当代女性的困境。女 己的需求，后者让女性与社会链 saying that her dog had just died. A car had run over on walking. This was her bike now. She hopped on and 面或者隐性削弱的结果。 强者口中的‘自愿’和弱者口中 him. I think about this a lot. slowly peddled off. Later we checked the app’s map 而抗争的过程是强与弱的斗 的‘自愿’往往不是一回事。美剧“ Almost every day now, I slip on my bike shorts and of the trip history, expecting to see the words ‘world 争。 晨间直播秀”中生动地展现了这 my work’s polo t-shirt so that when I enter the public peace’ spelled out through her cycle path. 这个问题常常和其他社会问题 点。缺乏对弱者真正有效的支持 eye I will be indicating my status as both an exerciser Sometimes I traverse across campus, just to check up 联系在一起，比如说肤色，种 和理解，加上集体规则对弱者的 and employee. I head towards work, in case police ask on her. Eastern Avenue now serves solely as a pretty 族还有社会阶级的不平等，被称 默认压制，也就会导致弱者越加 me what I am doing outside. My cross-city commute thoroughfare. The other day I watched a photo shoot 为“intersected issue”。波伏娃在她 弱，从而一直处于受欺负的地 by bike is faster, cheaper and safer than by bus. It also of a gowned woman staging her graduation day in serves as a minor reformation to my own burdensome, front of the Quadrangle. Despite the desolation, neat 的著作第二性分析了女性被局限 位。弱者的觉醒不能等到触底反 habitual contributions to the climate crisis. I get a lot little piles of autumnal leaf litter made me suspect the 的历史文化还有社会结构原因。 弹的地步，那时常常为时已晚。 of satisfaction from this commute. I also see a lot of university has hired a fleet of Roombas to maintain 女性从小受到的教育往往把女性 家庭暴力对女性造成的情感和身 things. On each journey I pass two or three bikes I've the grounds. A security guard I met recently told me 的未来道路局限在了家庭之内， 体上的创伤是持久而深刻的。家 used previously, still parked where I discarded them. about the glory hole once operating in a bathroom in 或是一些社会地位和薪酬并不高 庭暴力实施者常常拥有经济或者 Sometimes a bike has cobwebs on the handlebars - Carslaw. I wanted to visit it, find it, wishing there were 的职业领域中，比如说幼儿教育 家庭地位上的主导权，对另一半 surely a repurposed Halloween prop placed there by more campus landmarks I could investigate to curate 老师或者护士。” 人们常惊讶的 实施精神上的谩骂冷处理甚至人 illusive Onya staff, perhaps a quaint expression of my own kind of ghost tour, where the ghosts are that 发现，女人一旦找到了丈夫，便 格侮辱，或是以性暴力，身体暴 solidarity in trying times, perhaps a public artwork, of student occupation. 能多么轻易的放弃音乐、学习和 力还有经济控制的手段来让另一 perhaps a corporate attempt to evoke sympathy by At that time I only knew that Jesus ascended to No matter how nerdy it might make you to miss 她的职业。在她的计划中，她明 半遭受折磨且无法离开。 rendering the decrease in usage visible, as if people heaven forty days after his resurrection. She soon after school, I miss USyd. It cultivates so much more of 显涉及到自己的地方实在是太少 even used them before the pandemic. hopped off, and I was left looking at my hands. The my individual value than I realised, and falling short 了，以致实现计划也不会给她带 被边缘化的女性，像案板上的 On Easter weekend, I resorted to the novelty of belief that the soul of the deceased wanders the Earth of that quota I find myself visiting old places as catching a bus home from work. I couldn’t find any for a 40-day period, visiting places of significance and compensation, like my childhood home, university 来多少利益。一切都在联合起来 肉，无法发出反抗的声音。也 idle bikes near me that day. The buses are often empty their grave is rooted in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. sandstone, particular waters. I’m a sorry sappy 抑制她的个人野心，巨大的社会 是容易发生严重性别不平等的群 now, of course. At Central, a woman held our journey Those that don't have places to hide from the public disembodiment of a cliché, and I’m grasping for small 压力仍在强迫她通过婚姻谋求社 体。留学生群体是家暴事件的高 up, asking the bus driver about getting to Newtown. space stick out more now. I've seen one particular tastes of what once was. 会地位和合法庇护。” 在这样的 发群体。年轻易怒，尚不懂得如 She hopped on without paying and sat in the accessible man three times: first in Hyde Park, then a nook in 社会语境下，女性追寻自我不仅 何妥当处理感情，却常常以同居 seating area. As the driver lugged us up Parramatta front of an office on Pitt Street, then in a park in Art by Michael Lotsaris. 仅需要脱离环境自我觉醒，还需 作为情侣相处的模式。作为一个 要去面对觉醒后社会规则与本身 国家体制外的非本国居民，以及 的对抗。 有色人种，缺乏信息来源和相关 女性独立已不是空谈。 的求助途径，常常落入发生此类 The poetry of loving those we've never known Words by William Solomon. Wilfrid These are the things I can tell you of my rather than a man I ever knew. him a line can be drawn that connects In pastel colours, he is grandfather. I would say I love both of my me to a vibrant history. Despite being a Pale and thin – A blonde face, Eric Solomon, my father’s father, grandfathers deeply, and that I maintain man of his time that I would certainly The beauty of a maiden is like a spirit. After the confusion, is the embrace of freedom. A warm embrace, lived a prolific life. He was born in a relationship with them both. They were disagree with, he is my progressivism. The hearth. Baghdad to a pair of diplomats from the young men when they were interred; I His love for his country was reconciled Living ever in the past 性受到的攻击不仅仅来源于男 接，从而有归属感和安全感。缺 United Kingdom, in what was then the never met Wilfrid, my mother’s dad, in his post-colonial understandings. His But somewhere closer still 性。仍然有部分受到传统社会对 一不可。女性的自我保护大多始 Ottoman Empire, and moved to Mumbai either. I have always felt that little would spiritual openness drives my own. He The heart. 女性的婚姻教育和职业道路教育 于教育，女性权益保护的相关团 as a young boy, then called Bombay by come of doting on the fact that I never has taught me to love the old world and A Golden hand, 的女孩们，对本身的性别缺乏真 体的建设的成功与否则始于社会 the British Raj. Tensions between the had a chance to know them – they have to want for it to change. A plan of some sort – 正的认同和信心，自我厌恶和自 对于这个的关注度。 Ottomans and the British were growing for decades belonged to history. Instead In Wilfrid is my comfort. He is a Brought a daughter 拥有自我之身体主权，拥有自 And unspoken promises 我攻击，不得不依附于其他性 dire before the Great War. He attended I love them for their stories, as I love my crackling fire and a calm smile. Where Of a verdant future. 别。同时，把这种攻击性投射到 我之精神主权。隐匿于繁花之 the same grammar school as Rudyard favourite novels and poems. Eric inhabits the waves, Wilfrid still In the gardens of the moon, 了其他同性的身上。宫斗剧十分 后，穿梭于锋芒之间。只为待厚 Kipling, though decades later, and Wilfrid loved poetry, and my mum is resides in my grandma’s beautiful house. Asleep on a green pool, 受欢迎。清平乐播出后，微博上 积薄发之时。应有所警醒，应坦 would go on to join the Royal Indian convinced that he is the reason I love it He sits in a rocking chair by the fireplace His is the face 的各大博主跟风教育女性如何‘上 然面对的同时永不放弃挣扎和对 Navy. He played water polo for the Raj too. I don’t know as much about Wilfrid, there, and reads his poetry in a corner of Of every loon. 位’，且附庸者众多。一群女性在 抗。卡门作为流传最广的歌剧， and spoke a handful of languages. He he was a quiet man, and his story is a my mind. He is stillness and rest, helping 一起勾心斗角，为了抢夺一个‘男 其内涵从塑造一个悲情的浪荡坏 served in the Second World War, was quiet one. He grew up in Sydney, married me to breathe and teaching me to think Eric I hide behind the flowers, and shuttle between the edge. Only wait for the time of thick 性’的宠爱从而得到社会资源的倾 女人到对女性主义偶像的歌颂。 later discharged by Mountbatten, and my grandmother and they had my mum quietly. My mum is right when she says Cresting now, the ocean clipper accumulation. 斜，这种文化现象在一定程度上 文化变迁的背后是女性精神的自 then he immigrated to Australia. He and uncle. He was much younger than I look more like him, the similarities dips to meet the tempest lip supported Gandhi. Before he met my Eric and didn’t serve in the war. He was are remarkable. When I look at photos And glides toward the sun. 体现的是男权社会的复辟思想。 我觉醒。 Soaring as a great sea bird 事件后，孤立无援的境地。 刻意取悦和迎合的结果是，从 我们有何理由不相信迷惘之 grandmother, he was married to another blonde, pale and skinny, and had very of Eric I see a Homeric figure, while in woman and had a son, my uncle, who blue eyes. My mum believes I look more photos of Wilfrid I can’t help but see That spends its summers 今天的女性已经处于一个幸运 海外留学生并没有家人陪伴在 开端往往就落于下风，主动地压 后，将是更自由的拥抱？ On the run, he both tragically lost. All of this had like him than I do Eric. myself. My favourite pair of cufflinks 的时代，这是自工业革命以来一 身边，建立的社交关系也大多十 抑了本我意愿。若本身仍然处于 He mans the guns and softly, occurred by his forties, when he fell in As I reached adulthood, I found were his, with embossed W’s on them. In an ancient tongue, 代代先驱努力的结果。女性对于‘ 分浅层，因为大学的教学模式使 一种把婚姻视为唯一保障自己经 love with my grandmother and together myself hungry for information. Speaking I often like to read poetry as if my head 男色’的自由追求是一种证明。男 得社交圈的流动性很大。其次， 济和社会地位的思想阶段，女性 Art by 谢红霖 (Honglin Xie). A dozen words are sung they had my dad. Eric was a Sephardi to my parents about their fathers, I voice is his, and I think I don’t ask my That beckon, ‘O Jerusalem.’ 性不再是作为一个‘寄主’的价值 女性往往被教育最好一直保持‘温 独立的声音会越来越弱，直至成 Jew, grandma was a Christian. He was engrossed by what were stories of mum very much about Wilfrid because I And as the wind enchants the sail 被衡量。女性独立，方能有筹码 和可爱’。即使在遭遇到了十分 为空谈。娜拉出走的标志性事 would suffer a heart attack and pass young men. Eric and Wilfrid took on like to keep him similar to me. There forms a gilded hand 去更好地谈判权利与真正意义上 不公平的对待后，显示出的攻击 件，也会倒退回‘娜拉和皇上赌气 away during my dad’s childhood. a mythological youthfulness, and they Their lives belong to history, but their Out in the gale 的平等。 性往往会被被进一步指责和刻意 出走，却最终回归皇宫’。对于 I can tell you these things but not with became facets of how I saw myself. essences are wonderfully free. They That places in young Eric’s hand The Holy Grail. 即使现代社会对女性在文化语 构陷。在受到家庭暴力后，甚至 所有自由的女性来说，大概年龄 any dates. I don’t know the year he was In Eric is my courage and wanderlust. exist somewhere between fact and my He won’t succumb to frailness yet, 境中的友好程度与从前相比已是 有部分受害者会被灌输从而相信‘ 不是诅咒，年龄是每天的礼物， born, the year he immigrated, the year I like to think of Eric when I sit on the imagination, and this is how I love them. Nor will the pages of my Kipling 天壤之别，但女性仍然在一个男 家丑不可外扬’的思想，让施暴者 因这是经验和智慧的沉淀；松弛 he passed away, or the precise age of my train, he is movement and liveliness. I experience them like poetry. Soon forget. 性领导占多数的社会中处于相对 更加肆无忌惮。除了留学生外， 的肌肤和不完美的体型也不是诅 father when it happened. I could figure Whenever I visit the beach, I can see A ripple in a puddle 弱势。即使在当代社会，家庭暴 也有诸多女性身在海外，在外务 咒，是自然刻下的轮回，因这并 it out if I prodded, but I prefer it this his love of the water. He reminds me Is greater than 力和职场潜规则等等还是一个很 工，遭受着语言不通和社会资源 不动摇美之风骨。 way. Eric is a story that I hold very dear, that progress is possible, that through A stagnant sea.

18 19 SRC REPORTS SRC STUDENT HELP President Note: These pages belong to the Office Bearers of the SRC. They are not altered, edited or changed in any way by the editors of Honi Soit. Liam Donohoe Ask Abe Procrastination: Will you The Students’ Representative Council myriad academic issues to broader structural attended a small protest outside the NSW We have so far distributed 60 packs, and we SRC caseworker help Q&A Offices, in concert with society more determinants, we hope academic struggles Parliament demanding relief for renters / intend to do at least another 40-80 in the broadly, continues to swell with more people will serve as a good entry point for engaging tenants, which was, unfortunately, quickly coming week. For any students who have ever get around to it? and activity. Between Mutual Aid drop offs, more students in the campaign to support shut down by the NSW Police. Despite their not yet received a pack, we apologise for the Ask Abe about Late DC protest organisation / resourcing, and a staff and fight government negligence. hasty and intolerant intervention, however, delay—we are running on volunteer labour - Discontinue Not Fail desire to get out of the house, Office Bearers Not to be outdone, Thursday saw the I did manage to sneak a speech in at Hyde and can only process so many bags in a Tips to get motivatied and undergraduates alike have found Education Action Group host an online Park amid a small crowd of staunch activists given time frame. Please be assured that we themselves in the annals of Wentworth meeting and panel featuring Education from the Housing Defence Coalition. And are trying our best to help you. once again. And just as students are starting Officer Jazz Breen and USyd Academic further actions are planned in the coming As always there were plenty of committee to return to the Offices, so too are activists (and head of the USyd Casuals Network) week, including a potential refugee solidarity meetings to attend. Tuesday saw an Dear Abe, out which ones you would be able to returning to the streets—I attended a protest, Rob Boncardo. With an impressive audience action. Undergraduate Studies Committee meeting, successfully complete. Remember that and plans are afoot for more. It was, in all, from a few different political perspectives, the Protest and long-term structural change while Wednesday saw both a Student Life a relatively calm week, which was spent meeting made crystal clear how important weren’t the only thing on the agenda, Committee and Board of Interdisciplinary I used to think that I’d be able to pass most people will overestimate their planning for the storms about to hit our student contributions will be to upcoming however. After the small but successful Studies meeting. On top of my usual Friday all of my subjects, but I now think I’m abilities. If you are on a Centrelink shores. higher education struggles. Discussion launch of the Mutual Aid delivery program afternoon meeting with key University going to struggle. I don’t quite get the payment or have a study visa, find out To that end, protest organising was the specifically centred around the NTEU’s in week 10, the SRC initiated its second- managers, and additional ad hoc meetings hang of doing online classes, and find the consequences, before you drop any main focus of the week. With University’s National Day of Action on the 21st of May round of drop-offs. It is hard to convey with various staff throughout the week, I it very difficult to concentrate. Being subjects, from an SRC Caseworker. experiencing a once-in-a-generation crisis (Thursday this week), which will involve a the scale of the operation. Countless bags have been quite immersed in the University home alone all the time makes me feel generations in the making, students and car convoy and possibly other forms of in- of hampers, kindly donated by the Exodus bureaucracy of late. pretty sad and lonely, and I’m finding it Withdrawing from subjects now will staff are mobilising so we can defend our person protest. The SRC totally endorses Foundation, are piled up in the Gosper and The next week will see yet more really difficult to stay motivated. How give you a DF (discontinue fail) grade. conditions and avoid the attacks the powerful the campaign, and will be sending a sizable Office Bearer rooms, and filled with extra committees, with the Student Consultative, can I avoid failing any subjects? However, if you need to withdraw from seem to be planning. With the National contingent to the convoy and will encourage goodies we’ve received by careful volunteers. Academic Standards & Policy, Learning a subject due to illness or misadven- Tertiary Education Union’s Executive students to contribute digitally too! We will Once filled and tied back together, we sort Environment, and Orientation Project Home Alone ture, you can apply for a late DC (dis- selling out to University management and also be promoting and participating in the them into different piles to reflect the different group all meeting. More importantly, continue not fail) grade. Check out the agreeing to a “National Framework” for follow-up National Day of Action on the drop-off routes we’ve created. Then, after a however, we’ll be building towards and then details here: srcusyd.net.au/src-help/ac- EBA re-negotiations which will involve 22nd, which will specifically emphasise the few days of disinfecting, our drivers come actualising two massive National Days of Dear Home Alone, ademic-issues/discontinue-not-fail-dc/. at least 15% cuts, it is little wonder we’re “No Uni Cuts” and “No Deal” demands / by and load them into their car—we’ve Action on Thursday and Friday. And with You may be able to argue that it is rea- urgently strategising. Tuesday saw an open outcomes which will be essential to winning had trips to Darlington / Chippendale, all this taking place amid the USU Elections, The most important thing to address sonable for you to get a DC based on meeting of our Defend Our Education this broader fight. Burwood, Strathfield / Rhodes, Hornsby, and the USU’s own staffing issues, I’m is how you are feeling. Go online to the unexpected shift from face-to-face campaign, which aimed to make clear the Between these actions, and a few others, and many more are planned for places far certain week 12 will be an incredibly busy eHeadspace to talk online in a group to online delivery. Again, seek advice Procrastination is when you deliber- your phone where you set your work connection between staff conditions and it seems not only that in-person protest is and near. And while this process has taken a and important week. forum, or book a one on one appoint- from an SRC Caseworker on what to ately delay completing (or perhaps even time, your break time, and the number student learning conditions. By emphasising back on the agenda, but also that the spirit bit of time to perfect and get off the ground, ment with a counsellor to develop strat- include in your application. starting) a task, despite the negative con- of cycles you could do that for before student conditions and connecting our of rebellion is in the air. On Tuesday I it is now running smoothly and efficiently. egies to deal with how you are feeling. sequences that might come of it. It is a having a bigger break. E.g., 20 minutes Abe normal part of life and can happen to all work, 5 minutes rest, repeat 3 times then Education Officers Think about all of the subjects you of us at different times. It might mean have 30 minutes break. Jazzlyn Breen and Jack Mansell are currently enrolled in, and figure that you never get around to finishing your readings before class, submitting It’s been a massive couple of weeks for exist in a bubble, and so we have also been who can also not access jobkeeper payments Major upcoming events: CAPS has online assignments on time, or studying for the EAG, and the higher education sector active in the national no uni cuts campaign, because of the nature of casual contracts. May 21st “NTEU NSW NDA Car and resources and provide more broadly. The sector is in crisis, and and are building up to the National Tertiary Last Thursday the EAG hosted an open Bike Convoy” - NTEU New South Wales. exams. The obvious outcomes are that desperately needs funding in order to survive. Education Union’s national day of action on forum to discuss the current issues within May 22nd “Fight Uni Cuts: we won’t Do you have a legal problem? you might lose marks or fail the subject, one on one counselling The EAG has now launched the campaign May 21st. higher education, and the NTEU’s response. pay for the crisis!” - Students Organising but perhaps you had not considered that appointments which we have been working on; “Defend our Another major fight we have taken Jazzlyn spoke alongside Rob Boncardo from Resistance it might place stress on other aspects of Education USyd” - focused specifically on on recently is encouraging a ‘no’ vote to the National Tertiary Education Union We can help you for FREE!* your life as well? When you miss dead- can help you develop issues affecting the university of Sydney. We the NTEU’s proposed concessions which USYD Branch Committee and the casuals lines, or recognise that your work is not have held various open meetings, attracting allow the undermining of staff working network, followed by a discussion amongst as good as it can be, this can lead to feel- strategies for dealing with a large variety of USyd students who have conditions, including a 15% pay cut. We the 40+ attendees. ings of anxiety and low mood, which procrastination, and can been able to share their ideas and issues believe that this is not good enough, and that Unfortunately 300 words is not long Police, Courts can then have a direct impact on feelings with USyd’s recent decisions. Our key the NTEU should instead be pushing harder enough to expand on everything we have of self-worth. These feelings can then help to identify if demands address issues which undermine for a university bailout, not throwing staff been doing, or all the fights that need to be Traffic offences disrupt your studies and your life. you have any other our education, such as the use of ProctorU, under the bus. The proposed deal will not had - so please join our facebook group to and staff job cuts. However USyd does not save the jobs of thousands of casual staff, get involved! Immigration & Visa Procrastination works in a cycle: we ap- underlying difficulties. proach a task and have negative feelings Women’s Officers Fines about it (e.g., “writing essays is boring”, 3.Work out when is your best time of or “I’ll never get this done”), so we try day, i.e., when your brain works best. Vivienne Guo and Ellie Wilson Employment law to avoid this discomfort by ‘escaping’ Use that time for the tasks that need the As the semester nears its close, WoCo has on the importance of prison abolition in our survivors however we can. We have reached workers, especially those on short-term and doing something else! This might in- most concentration. Find the best loca- been running educational and social events. understandings of feminist justice which out to the Women and Girls Emergency casual contracts, have been the first on the Consumer rights itially feel rewarding but it will actually tion for yourself to get tasks done, re- In Week 10, we ran a non-autonomous was loosely based on the podcast ‘Beyond Centre (WAGEC) and Mudgin-gal, offering chopping block. increase the likelihood of procrastinating move any distractions like your phone or feminist film screening facilitated by Prisons: Abolition is a Horizon Feat. Sarah support with online fundraisers, mutual aid, We firmly believe that staff working again next time. We need to find a way to social media (there are apps which can Claire Ollivain from Filmsoc of ‘The K. Tyson’. Furthermore, Women’s Officer creating informational resources etc. We conditions are student learning conditions, ...and more break this pattern. block devices or websites for a certain Body Remembers When the World Broke Ellie Wilson also helped facilitate an Enviro look forward to working with them further. and we stand in solidarity with the USyd amount of time), and plan rewards for Open’ (2019. Directed by Elle-Máijá Collective workshop on online activism Our education is under attack. Across NTEU rank and file. WoCo demands no Solutions yourself when you actually do complete Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn. CW: alongside Education Officer Jazzlyn Breen the country, tens of thousands of jobs in cuts! 1.Identify what you want to achieve, something! themes of domestic violence, missing and and Welfare Officer/2019 Honi editor higher education have been jeopardised as then put in place some strategies to get murdered Indigenous women, unwanted Amelia Mertha. neoliberal universities scramble to save their the task done. For example, write a to-do 4.Utilise the resources available to you at pregnancy, and abortion). We encourage We have recently been looking into profits during COVID-19. We have been list, break the task down into smaller uni and online. readers to watch the film and engage with supporting domestic violence survivors and seeing job cuts and course cuts on a massive more manageable parts, be realistic CAPS have a booklet with ideas on how the conversations about gendered violence, women’s shelters during this time of crisis. scale; at USyd, management has ordered a about how long each task will take, and to deal with procrastination (sydney. trauma, and solidarity that it brings to light. During COVID-19 social distancing, rates of 30% cut to courses in the Faculty of Arts In Week 11, WoCo facilitated an open domestic violence have spiked, making now and Social Sciences. It is incredibly revealing make a weekly schedule of the tasks that edu.au/current_students/counselling/ discussion group hosted by Georgia Mantle a particularly crucial time for us to support of the neoliberal University’s character that you have been putting into the too hard download-docs/learn-to-deal-with-pro- basket! crastination.pdf) and also provide one SRC Appointments: LEGAL SERVICE on one counselling appointments which Indigenous Officers Call us to make a booking. p: 02 9660 5222 APPOINTMENTS 2.You can either begin with the worst can help you develop strategies for deal- ARE NOW Mathilda Langford did not submit a report this week. We have a solicitor who speaks Mandarin task first, to get it over with, or by doing ing with procrastination, and can help to AVAILABLE something that feels more manageable, identify if you have any other underly- 法律諮詢 法律アドバイス BY PHONE OR ONLINE and gradually build up to the trickier ing difficulties. The Learning Centre has International Student Officers ones. It can help to set a time limit for workshops and online resources (sydney. SRC Legal Service yourself to do as much as possible and edu.au/students/learning-centre/learn- Ziying (Nicole) Huang, Mengfan (Karen) Ji, Mingyu (Moses) Lin and Kigen Mera did not submit a report this week. Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01), p: 02 9660 5222 Liability limited by a scheme reward yourself with a break. Perhaps ing-centre-workshops.html). University of Sydney NSW 2006 w: srcusyd.net.au approved under Professional you could use an interval timer app on Residential College Officers PO Box 794 Broadway NSW 2007 ACN: 146 653 143 Standards Legislation. Charlotte Ainsworth, Winny Li, Joseph Yang and Kiran Gupta did not submit a report this week. Contact an SRC Caseworker on 02 9660 5222 or email [email protected]

20 21 PUZZLES THE Puzzles ACROSS DOWN 1 Picture A (9) 1 Stairway to heaven: ... Ladder (6) 6 If you don't have live Zoom classes, 2 Arthur's court, or JFK's presidency (7) RODENT REVIEW your lectures might be (11) 3 Bead of precipitation (8) 12 Merge (7) Fierce, independent journalists controlled by the rats on our heads! 4 German philosopher (9) Omega 13 One who endures hardship without Build your own USU campaign! Bums (5) complaint (5) 5 6 Frontmost part of the stage, and its What does your iso-baking say about you? 14 Certainly (4,3) frame (10) 15 Demolishes mechanically (5) Lauren Lancaster, Getting Baked Editor 7 Fragment, passage (7) 16 ? Flesh-eating coronavirus disaster Finish (3) (11) 8 Who have you become? That’s for me to say and you to find out. 9 Public speaker (6) 18 Von Bismarck or Mann (4) 10 Awkward, troubling (13) 19 ? Chicken dish gives disease to about Loathing (9) one million - finally! 11 17 Sorted, organised (2,5) 21 Berry (4) 20 Eastern European country (7) 24 Nickname for Labour Leader (4) 22 ? Bitter woman (4) 26 Paid back (10) 23 Respond, please (4) 28 Raise the shoulders (5) 25 And there you have it! (4,4,5) 29 Picture B (10) 26 Arabian bird (3) 32 ?Idris put on party with disturbance A small 7 Down (7) (10) 27 30 To (4) 36 African country (5) 31 Dustin, or Philip Seyour (7) 37 Picture C (10) VOTE 1 33 Place of tertiary education (3) 39 Onion-like creature (4) [YOUR NAME HERE] FOR USU 34 Christmas (4) 41 Cross (4) 35 Violent, angry (10) 42 Moves to another country (10) 36 ?Dynamic flight? (9) Hi, I’m ______, I’m a ______year 44 ? Fab band at its core (4) 38 Injury you might get from being (name) (number) 48 Nitrus Oxide (8,3) punched in the face (9) Arts/______student, and I’m running to be 49 Southern American states, known for Picture E (8) (real degree) their high protestant (5,4) 40 Banana Bread: Sugar-free Brownies: 43 Instil (7) USU Board Director! A bit about me: In my spare 50 Scold, or mark as completed (4,3) As the weather turns a little chilly, you whip out The only goal of quarantine should be for 45 Making beer or coffee (7) time, I like to binge ______, 52 The Tempest's airy spirit (5) your Lorna Jane vest and matching ¾ leggings. one to become, in the sage words of Snoop 46 Elevated seat (6) (exceedingly average Netflix show) 53 Like an eel (3-4) Every day is a new day, and must not be wasted! Dogg, “tone, tan, fit and ready.” Sugar 47 Goddess of wisdom (6) drink rosé and dip into ______. 54 The act of coing out again (2-9) Thanks to the two hour Masterclass you watched is a government conspiracy designed to 49 Burp (5) (virtue signalling writer) 55 Picture D (9) last night with one (1) glass of chardy, you are enslave us to Coca Cola and Big Pharma! 51 Picture F (3) Resist! Coconut sugar doesn’t count, You might have seen me around now a qualified interior designer! Tomorrow: and you will not be vaccinating yourself ______, sneaking in organise a feminist knitting sesh with the gals over against COVID19, thank you very much (campus food outlet) Zoom. Even if you don’t have three kids and a for asking. The plan for next week is a quick ______before a lecture, or sizable mortgage, you have three kids and a sizable to tie-dye your ethically milled cotton (type of coffee) mortgage. The worst part about not driving your tracksuit with plant-based dyes and the during my time as an exec member for white VW Polo home from work every day is watered-down blood of Hello Fresh users, ______that you miss Kate, Tim and Marty! They are so because Marley Spoon is oil reduced and (that one club you joined during O Week and funny. The greatest thing to happen to you in the clearly superior. never went to any of their events) I’ve had a ______time at USyd, from last six weeks was the Le Creuset sale at Peter’s (positive adjective) of Kensington because you could finally get your parties at ______to hands on the same casserole dish that your sister- (dead campus bar) in-law has been raving about, for only 70% of what ______, and that's she paid for it. HA! (other soul-sucking campus activity) Picture A Picture B Picture C been thanks to the USU.

This election is ______(wildly overstates importance) as we move into recovery mode from the effects of COVID-19, and I think I’m the right person for this job. I have a history of activism and will bring ______values to the Board. (don’t say centrist) I promise that I will ______to ensure (meaningless verb) that the USU is looking after their______(don't say serfs) and will push for a review into ______. Cinnamon rolls: (vague problem) Picture D Picture E Picture F Sourdough bread: Your self-illustrated bullet journal is up to I’m willing and able to bring ______, As Australians, there are four things that are date and your Screen Time is at an all-time (work-related trait) crucial to our culture: the beach, the sun, mild low. You don’t feel guilty about indulging ______, and Target xenophobia and sourdough. A day in isolation is in a baked good, because you already have (synonym for previous word) in fact a lifetime on repeat, and your mood swings 1.5 hours of speed-walking scheduled with ______to this Board 10 words: The Bachelor confirm it as such – sourdough is followed by a your childhood neighbour each evening to (synonym for previous word) 20 words: Love is Blind deep funk followed by EMAILS followed by a maintain peak cardio fitness and mental so that we can revive the aspects of 60 words: Too Hot to Handle Puzzles by sprightly jog followed by left-overs for dinner. health as part of your colour-coded study ______. On Board I will fight for U R A You often wonder why YOU are always the one timetable that will continue until the end (fake interest) Tournesol. organising catch-ups, but shake that feeling off by of the Anthropocene. The act of baking oppressed ______slapping down more spelt flour onto your table cinnamon rolls is a multi-stage process, (pick one: women, gays, college kids) and screaming silently into the void. and one that requires expert dough- and build on my time fighting for students through Solutions kneading, expert rolling of the buns and ______. T E A expert timing when icing. As a Dalyell (pick one: SASS, SULS, SULC, SASS or SASS) next week. scholar, you are well-placed for this task. So, I hope I can count on your vote, and together Don’t forget to email your tutor to thank we can re-______the USU. L C W them for today's class! (vague verb) 22 23