Am I the only one that’s a little nervous about having a bisexual Bachelorette? Don’t hate on me, hear me out because this isn’t a perfect world and having a bisexual Bacehlorette has the possibility create some pretty big controversy. Having Brooke Blurton as the Bachelorette also brings with it…

I’m BLONDE! Yup. After four years of brown town I decided to mix things up and let my inner blonde bombshell take the stage. However, such a drastic change is not without its drawbacks — like, the damage I’ve done to my hair. After I made the switch I had…

Diet culture is an insidious beast. You set firm boundaries with your family, curate your social feeds and shake off the shackles of fad diets and toxic gym environments only to be whacked in the face with the news that Lizzo is on a juice cleanse. Lizzo is an icon…

Friday afternoon brought an issue to the attention of millions of Instagram users around Australia — one that we in marginalised communities have been aware of for years: the Instagram algorithm favours thin, white, cisgendered people, and effectively censors the rest of us. It all started on Friday when comedic…

Gender is a social construct. A concept widely acknowledged by the LGBTQIA+ community but outside of the safety and acceptance of queer spaces, and sometimes even within them, people are often misunderstood and gendered for the sake of mainstream society. …

It’s not hard to break the internet these days, and from Kim K to Salt Bae we are very rarely without some new cultural phenomenon causing controversy and providing us with the meme material we so desperately crave. However, not all cultural phenomena are created equal, and none have caused…

Instagram vs reality posts are those two side-by-side images we see all over our feeds. One image is the perfectly curated and posed version of ourselves that we share on Instagram, and the other (usually taken 30 seconds later) shows a less posed, less glamorised version. Often the point is…

A nurse, a student, a writer, an influencer, my life has changed… but haven’t we all changed? There aren’t enough photos to show how much my life has changed but I hope that by sharing my story that you have more insight and are also a little kinder to yourself if you are struggling.

I was meant to write this piece weeks ago but ironically the nature of anxiety and creativity is that as it comes and goes it affects your life in ways that you can’t control. I’m also a nurse and a freelance creative which meant that in preparing for COVID-19’s imminent…