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An Early 2000s Coming Out Story (Part 3: Telling Stories)
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, trauma, family violence and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. By Paul Brzeski Continued on from Part 2: Run, Survive, Repeat So we packed things…
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An Early 2000s Coming Out Story (Part 2: Run, Survive, Repeat)
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, trauma, family violence and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. By Paul Brzeski Continued on from Part 1: End of Childhood When morning came, I…
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An Early 2000s Coming Out Story (Part 1: End of Childhood)
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, trauma, family violence and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. By Paul Brzeski Wise people say it takes time to fall in love, but that…
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Gardening Taught Me How to Be a Better Programmer
The front of my house faces west, sunset, which means we get a lot of bright hot light from midday towards the early evening, irrespective of the weather. We’re just…
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Final Impact: Reclaiming my story a decade later
Warning: Discusses abuse of minors, workplace trauma, drug use and mental health crisis. Reader discretion advised. 2015 was a year of immense pain and suffering for me. For years I…
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10 Ways to Spot Narcissists (So You Can Avoid Them)
I’ve had a lot of problems in my life. Coming from a traumatic childhood, I trusted the wrong people again and again. That’s something a lot of trauma survivors deal…
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The Birds and the Diamond Mountain
We love to mythologise the rich and powerful, especially the further away they are from us in the pages of history. But it’s important to separate the fact from the…
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5 Things Progressives Keep Getting Wrong
We are losing the battle for humanity to the Alt Reich, and I believe it’s time to be honest about our own failings so that we can get better. Nobody…
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Queer Class Exclusion
For most of my life, being a part of the gay community was about survival. It meant finding a chosen family, solidarity, and finding safety and acceptance where the outside…
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Top 10 Worst Incentives in Modern Australia
Australia is full of systems that reward the worst possible behaviour. Instead of ideas that fix problems, we’ve built incentives that make them worse, often deliberately, because someone powerful benefits.…