Rose’s Reviews > Queerstories: Reflections on lives well lived from some of Australia's finest LGBTQIA+ writers > Status Update

"I learnt that gender was fluid, and I learnt that queer ran through me like a river."
from "Gotta make way for the homo superior" by Vicki Melson

same, vicki

Read "Bodily Interventions" by Jax Jacki Brown, and I'm glad I did. Learning about her experiences with being queer and disabled, how those identities and communities intersect, and how the LGBT+ community still has a long way to go when it comes to being accessible to all, made me think about and confront a few biases that I didn't know I held. This book is a masterpiece in exploring queer Australian identities.

Alternating between cackling with laughter and being gut punched by the universality of how much it sucks growing up queer in Australia

returned from europe, finished uni for the semester, and finally have a little time to not think about conjugating verbs and get back to this book.

"Adelaide is famous for its churches and its murders and one can quickly see how they came to live side by side."
"I wasn't a girl. I wasn't a boy. I was just me." - Jen Cloher, "John."

hmmmm a queer author talking about their experience growing up and attending Catholic school in Adelaide? hoo boy that hit me directly in the gut and that's only the first story in this anthology.