When I was in my last year of university I had a lover who surprised me by saying ze not only didn't like hir period but felt mostly like a man and asked what would I think if ze had hir breasts removed. Fine, I said, I love you, not breasts. Around this time another friend of mine came back from the USA with tranny porn and stories of trans* Pride marches and radical gender variant communities. Cool, I thought. Gender is an oppressive construct. Down with patriarchy! Down with gender, oppression! That's feminist, right? Or is it?

21 cm x 15 cm, 32 pages.

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I started to voraciously read Dolly and Girlfriend magazines when I was about twelve or thirteen. They cost about $3.50 and were sold at the servo on the corner near my mum's house. I felt guilty about reading them...

10 cm x 11 cm, 12 pages.

...The city was covered in rubbish. It was the first time I'd seen it after New Year's celebrations. I passed out in my dirty clothes as soon as I hit my bed. I slept all day and in the evening walked to get fries and a sundae from McDonald's, my ultimate hangover food in the summer (melted cheese and tomato sandwhiches during winter). My then-friend was staying with me...

15 cm x 11 cm, 40 pages

PO Box 466  Darlinghurst NSW 1300

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