White Knuckles single work   prose  
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 White Knuckles
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'A few years ago I was diagnosed with a serious intermittent mental illness, and I made a decision not to rush to publicise it. I used that experience to write a journal article, about the queer politics of disclosure of disability, which carefully avoids saying what the diagnosis was. At a personal level, I have always had mixed feelings about 'coming out'-even though it can be politically powerful to do so, it can also mean giving into the demand to narrate how you differ from the norm. With the possible exception of young men at dance and drama schools, nobody has ever had to 'come out' as straight; white Australians are not routinely asked to tell their migration stories; abled people are not required to explain how they are socially enabled, et cetera.' (Publication abstract)

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Bipolar disorder; Post-traumatic stress disorder; ADHD
    Type of character Primary
    Point of view First person (autobiographical)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin Online 2022 23920292 2022 periodical issue 2022
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 81 no. 3 September 2022 25509606 2022 periodical issue 'We saw images recently that captured light from a moment 13 billion years ago. A thing of wonders. Minds turned to the deepest of time, the origins of our universe, and perhaps to that moment before the sudden creation of an infinity of something from an endless expanse of nothing. Or was that big bang the final decaying and thus creating moment of a previous infinity of something? Our minds can tiptoe around these ideas, but never quite land in a recognisable space between them. But maybe that is their beauty, the tantalising possibility of utter unknowability.' (Jonathan Green, Editorial introduction) 2022 pg. 17-20
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