Kristyn Jackson wrote this for PhD Peeps, a website we started together just before she escaped academia and headed to Melbourne. Although originally written for …
Interviewing like a pro
Are you going to conduct some interviews for your research [or other endeavour]? Feeling a little lost? This post compiles some practical tips to help …
Representations of Albinism in Australian High School English Texts
The University of Canberra required me to write more for my research proposal than every other student; the Faculty of Art and Design Handbook says …
Illustrating Doerr’s statement implying that the ‘true’ Aryan does not have albinism
Preamble I wrote this post because it intersects my thesis that was to have been on representations of albinism and my preparation for my Critical Health …
Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature by Patricia A Dunn
Patricia Dunn selected several Young Adult literature texts for discussion in Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature, which focuses on teaching disability …
Carved from Stone and Dream T Frohock
A review by Nalini Haynes Carved from Stone and Dream starts several years after Where Oblivion Lives and is a very different novel although it …
Adam Richard: There is only Zuul
Adam Richard is a comedian, writer, radio presenter and media personality. He’s involved in everything from musical quiz show Spicks and Specks to sci fi …
A Curse of Ash and Embers by Jo Spurrier
A Curse of Ash and Ember is book 1 of the Tales of the Blackbone Witches. Elodie is restless; she’s a prisoner in her own …
Asshole Survival Guide by Robert Sutton
A review by Nalini Haynes Last year I read How To Be An Academic by the Thesis Whisperer, Inger Mewburn (I recommend her book); Mewburn recommends …
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
A review by Nalini Haynes Camellia Beauregard is one of the Belles; she was born with colour in Orleans, a magical archipelago where the God of …
Michaelangelo — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
There’s Michelangelo and there’s Michaelangelo: Ol’ Michaelangelo was the guy the Sistine Chapel fired. Mike was ahead of his time. Ian Gunn, creator of these silly illos …
Miner — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
This miner is mistaken: he’s come out in your device. Ian Gunn drew these silly illos for paper zines back in the 1980s and 1990s, …
Mental Blocks (emotional Lego) — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
Mental Blocks for NaNoWriMo participants who are mourning missed deadlines. If Ian Gunn had been drawing today, I have no doubt he would have punned off emoticons …
MC Squared — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
MC Squared is rapping to remind us that E = MC2. Ian Gunn drew silly illos for inclusion in educational text books, of which this …
Max Headroom — a silly illo by Ian Gunn
Max Headroom is reading William Gibson in this silly illo! Who remembers Max?! Squee! Nostalgia! Ian Gunn, creator of these silly illos (illustrations), was a …