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Money Makes Them Sad

I once had a conversation in a pub in Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia, during which I was threatened with a beating and told that the indigenous people were happier and better off before they had the vote and were paid in money. I was living in the town at the time, the pub or ‘Motel’ was my...

April 20, 2020

On the Death of a Child & Trigger Warnings

The problem with Trigger Warnings is that they often exacerbate the pain than they seek to protect us from. They also propose a world where healing from many different traumas is homogenised into a synthetic mass agreement on what constitutes pain, damage, confrontation or peace. The synthesis is too simplistic and is in fact more demagogic than pedagogic: it speaks to a mass lie of consensus rather than enabling people to learn their way through their horrors.

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Money Makes Them Sad

On the Death of a Child & Trigger Warnings