My essay “Pink skates, autistic limbs” was shortlisted in the 2022 SBS Emerging Writers Competition and published in August 2023 in the Hardie Grant anthology Emergence:
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As a German-Australian, I’ve been learning the importance of grappling with the past - lest we repeat its horrors
ABC Religion and Ethics
February 26, 2025
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Reasonable and necessary, choice and control: but for who?
The Canberra Disability Review
Summer 2024/2025
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If the NDIS is favouring applicants who go to the media, what happens to disabled people who can't advocate for themselves?
The Canberra Times
October 23, 2024
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Wrong-doing, truth-telling, burden-bearing: the ethics of parading disability for unpromised justice
ABC Religion and Ethics
August 26, 2024
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What this cruel NDIS rejection reveals about being disabled in Australia
news.com.au
August 14, 2024
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NDIS paternalism: how a $119 delivery fee turned into a $4,000 ordeal
The Canberra Times
July 4, 2024
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The problem with the Bank of Mum and Dad
Independent Australia
April 12, 2024
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Who killed Elvis the rooster and why does it matter? The surprising link between empathy and cruelty
ABC News
March 17, 2024
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On shame and vaginismus: “I thought my vagina was broken”
news.com.au
March 15, 2024
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New York Post
March 15, 2024
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“Suffer in secret”: what people get wrong about high-functioning autism
news.com.au
December 30, 2023
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Disability is part of being human: what will we lose if we cut the NDIS?
ABC Religion and Ethics
December 12, 2023
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The NDIS is being rorted, but not by autistic people like me
The Sydney Morning Herald
November 20, 2023
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Unacceptable reason my lifespan is 20 years less
news.com.au
November 5, 2023
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I was a good girl but secretly suffering alone
news.com.au
October 12, 2023
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From killing koalas to killing cats: How colonialism continues to underpin
Australia’s culture of animal cruelty
ABC Religion and Ethics
August 7, 2023
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Working from home should be a right, not a luxury
The Canberra Times
July 26, 2023
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Why it’s time to retire “high” and “low” functioning autism labels
The Unwritten
June 2, 2023
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Sia’s autism diagnosis doesn’t absolve her of dangerous ableism
Hireup
June 2, 2023
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I was diagnosed with autism at 28. These were the 7 signs
news.com.au
April 7, 2023
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Women with disabilities are overworked and underfunded
Women With Disabilities Australia
March 3, 2023
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Women like Em Rusciano aren’t faking their autism, we’ve been faking being neurotypical
Hireup
February 21, 2023
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The last moments I spent with Mum changed my life
SBS Australia
August 17, 2022
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We’ve been fighting for the right to safe, comfortable housing for decades
Hireup
July 29, 2022
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Why I don’t want to “lose” my autism label
Hireup
May 9, 2022
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I don’t have autism, I’m autistic – and why the difference matters
Hireup
April 1, 2022
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I’m young with an invisible illness, and until public places have more chairs, I’ll keep sitting on the floor
Hireup
March 14, 2022
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Grace Tame, like me, is autistic, and seeing her publicly ridiculed simply for existing is frustrating
Hireup
January 31, 2022
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Man, Animal, Other: The Intersections of Racism, Speciesism, and Problematic Recognition in Indigenous Australia
NEW: Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies
2018
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