Protected: A weighty issue

Vale Lisa Maree Chivers, 1971 – 2008

Lisa’s funeral this morn­ing was lovely. I was right: she was about my age – 6 weeks younger, in fact. We still don’t know how she died. My only new inform­a­tion is that she died in her sleep, she looked peace­ful and she seemed to have fallen asleep...

Young at heart

Saw utterly awe­some film tonight. A chorus of seni­ors singing songs like “I wanna be sedated”.There are clips from it on You­Tube. Unfor­tu­nately, embed­ding has been dis­abled by request so you’ll have to clicky on the linkies:Road to NowhereGolden...

Gendering International Politics

I start tutor­ing for Sheila Jef­freys today in Inter­na­tional Gender Polit­ics at Mel­bourne Uni­ver­sity. I thought it might be an inter­est­ing exer­cise to blog my thoughts on the lec­tures and some notes towards my ideas that I’ll explore in the tutes. If...