The Agency and the Equity single work   essay  
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'This essay began with another one. One I didn't write about a decade ago. I was asked to write an opinion piece about Universal Basic Income (UBI) for artists. I'd been open about the role long-term unemployment had played in shaping my early life. Unemployment benefits kept me going for most of my teens and early twenties. The incredibly meagre capital of a dollar 500 'dole loan' had seed-funded the early creative projects that led me to where I am today. At the time I started down the UBI rabbit hole, but in the end I delayed and ultimately declined to write that piece-because the more I thought about it, the more I needed to.'  (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 83 no. 1 March 2024 28210791 2024 periodical issue 'Stopping to watch the ancestors dance. Rethinking Australia, reconfiguring capitalism, putting out fires. Loose buttons and lost contact lenses. Trickle-down predators. On the day that the clouds are black, the heavy rain falls like silver. What compels you? What moves you? What radicalises you? What do you imagine you would have done in those circumstances? Giving form, cooking and dreaming, meeting at the threshold. Lightness and water and breathtaking love. The year in truth-telling. Writing for the future. You know how to dance. Just dance.' (Editorial introduction) 2024 pg. 34-42
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