Tag: FEATURE

  • Better to squat than let homes rot: inside Sydney’s underground squatting movement

    Better to squat than let homes rot: inside Sydney’s underground squatting movement

    FEATURE ARTICLE FOR VICE AUSTRALIA. “Once upon a time there was a haven for artists, freaks, punks, pagans, renegades and junkies,” legendary Sydney artist and seasoned squatter Toby Zoates writes on his blog.  “It looked like a forbidding fortress: a dark cubist castle clinging to some old disused wharves and, as…

  • Fast food with Chloe Wise

    Fast food with Chloe Wise

    FEATURE ARTICLE AND INTERVIEW FOR OYSTER MAGAZINE ISSUE #110. If there’s one thing in life guaranteed to make you forget your troubles, it’s a Friday night trip to Pizza Hut for the all‐you‐can‐eat buffet. I can still hear the bowls of neon‐coloured jelly, half‐melted ice cream, and too‐hard mini marshmallows…

  • First Paddy’s, now Glebe Markets… Sydney is losing its soul, and for what?

    First Paddy’s, now Glebe Markets… Sydney is losing its soul, and for what?

    Opinion ARTICLE FOR the Sydney Morning Herald. There used to be a karaoke bar at the gateway to Dixon Street in Chinatown: opposite the hula-hooping clown and the queue for cream puffs. You could stop in on a Friday night for free entertainment or a turn on the stage. It…

  • FEMMZE is bringing positive period energy to our underwear drawers

    FEMMZE is bringing positive period energy to our underwear drawers

    FEATURE ARTICLE FOR RIISE. “I think everyone remembers tying their jumpers around their waist ‘just in case’. Or slipping pads and tampons up their sleeves hoping no one noticed, especially the boys.” We are speaking to Beck Quade about the painfully relatable topic of period stigma. Every woman has a…

  • 4 viral blush looks to try for the sun-kissed glow that’s all over your feed

    4 viral blush looks to try for the sun-kissed glow that’s all over your feed

    BEAUTY ARTICLE FOR RIISE. As a young person, I never really “got” blush. That dusty pink product tucked at the back of Mum’s beauty drawer that somehow always made me look like the clown emoji. Artificially bright and impossible to blend, I spent my twenties steering clear of blush in…