While it sounds like an arcane ritual from a race of inhabitants of Middle-earth, this mangled acronym stands for the ‘International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia”. Its genesis was in the campaigns of the 1970s and 80s for equal rights for gay and lesbians to end long-standing pervasive and state-mandated discrimination and often...
Continue readingAboriginal Deaths in Custody
Every year since at least this side of the millennium we have had recounted across our towns and cities something akin to a national jeremiad. It takes place on a date that is growing in infamy. Our annual lament fuels this growth, eroding foundational claims and, in the unstructured residue, draws strength for its...
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