Category: Discrimination
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Are we the baddies?
Have you ever spoken to an English person of a certain class, felt absolutely crestfallen after your encounter but unable to respond to a direct attack? So it is with policy. They wanted to wipe Aboriginal out but they didn’t want to be too obvious. Because if they marched over one hundred thousand people into… Read more
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We’re all confused…
Moving to Adelaide is like time travel into the future. Country life is much more conservative, even today. When I was young I lived in Port Augusta in the 80’s. There were girls toilets and boys toilets. It was not ok to be gay. And if a man wanted to wear a dress and a Read more
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I wear my sunglasses at night…
Last night I took my olanzapine. It is an antipsychotic medication that has a sedative effect. I slept for fifteen hours and still feel drowsy. I look at some neon orange underwear purchased recently with distan but am aware that I thought it was an excellent purchase at the time and suited my mood a Read more
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Resilient characters…
I’m from the country and I’ve lived there for most of my life. Back in my town people know me. They just know that I get a bit excited, that I can be the life of the party, tell jokes, light up the room, be really charismatic and fun. My workmates at my old office Read more