Beyond Adolescence
Netflix’s Adolescence provides an unsettling mirror that we can either choose to look away from or learn from. It’s a confronting social commentary on an epidemic prevalent not just in the UK and Australia, but across the world; gender-based violence. Since the start of 2024, 117 women and 20 children in Australia have been killed as a result of gender-based violence. Maybe that contributed to the reason that Adolescence was upsetting, but not shocking.
The C-Word
I was twelve when I first came out as transgender. My family was, for the most part, very unsupportive. I had been mentally ill since I was a young child, and, as would be established years later, I had also had rheumatoid arthritis. I was in constant pain – bodily, mentally, and in the growing dissonance of my gender.
Diary of a Year 9 High School Teacher 2.0
A Year 9 teacher’s open letter to Chanel Contos, Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame.
Diary of a Year 9 High School Teacher
A Year 9 Teacher’s reflections on the significance of language when it comes to gender equality amongst young people.
