gotta love Suzanne Collins' dedication to dropping a banger every few years, re-traumatizing a whole generation and disappearing back into the abyss without a single word
This One Summer written by Mariko Tamaki illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
‘The Year the Maps Changed’
me: i don’t really want to write this essay
the little shakespearean friar living in my brain: FAKE YOUR DEATH
me: what
Outgoing Australian of the Year - Grace Tame - meets with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photographs by Alex Ellinghausen. Worth noting that this same government failed to include Grace in their child sex abuse strategy (despite being a childhood sexual abuse survivor herself and spreading the word about the “Let Her Speak,” campaign), the government that stood with Christian Porter and Andrew Laming, that “paused” the investigation into the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins that happened at Parliament … they don’t deserve civility or respect from this activist. And no woman owes you a smile. Or a photo opportunity. Grace Tame - rock on 🤘
Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.
'Walk Two Moons' by Sharon Creech
Books are family. Books are community.
Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology
Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.
'The Ocean at the End of the Lane' by Neil Gaiman
The statesman's pocket my new cage, he called me a spectre then stole my dialect to wrench the core of men, made me the Braille, dots beneath skin, of a blindman's game.
'The Possibility of Flight' by Lia Hills
"Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth."
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