Why you should stop looking at the dollar and start thinking about how it makes us look
The dollar is a powerful symbol.Its price tag—$1.00 per ounce—has been used to justify everything from military bases to military spending to military-grade weapons.It has been used in advertising campaigns for a number of years, with slogans like “The Dollar Is Our Life” and “I Will Pay The Dollar”...
How to make ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ a reality in 2019
In 2019, when the film was first announced in 2017, I was a teenager, an aspiring writer, and one of those kids who thought the title was too close to the title of a popular children’s TV show.And, even then, it was a bit of a shock.The word “maid”...
How the royal commission into missing and murdered Indigenous women in Victoria became a royal commission
The Victoria Police commissioned a royal inquiry into the missing and dead Indigenous women of Victoria who had gone missing and been murdered in the 1980s.The inquiry, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Crime Against Indigenous Women (RCICIWA), began in the 1970s and was officially announced in 1981.The...