Hecate articles from October 1993

Hecate archives from October 1993

'I hate working for white people.' (investigation of the effects of White Australia Policy 1901 on Aboriginal women)
October 1, 1993... 81. Cox, 357. 82. Huggins, "'Firing On in the Mind,'" 11. 83. The handling of human needs is central to total institutionalisation. Goffman posits that requests for permission to carry out actions that one could execute while on the outside...

Hot property: mutants, metaphors and radiation. (essay on cancer)
October 1, 1993... 'You are aware,' she said with a half smile, 'that if you only had a cancerous knee, it would be a lot less interesting to everyone here.' 'What, you mean that my cancerous cervix makes the topic sort of--hot property?' I exclaimed....

Lesbian movement. (poem)
October 1, 1993... (Astonishing commentary on a conversation overheard in an employees' lunchroom) She can tell by the way they move. She can tell by the way they move-- She can tell by the way they move-- She can tell --by the way--they move... ..

Sometimes .... (poem)
October 1, 1993... the great idea has not yet been surrounded with words a true & obvious answer to it all by words my voice has not been found I don't sing well enough yet I record the words moving through...

Lovely low television sounds. (short story)
October 1, 1993... The thing about being on holidays is that nothing's familiar; fights up here aren't like fights at home. At home you can go through your sock drawer and match up all your socks or you can rearrange your coloured pencils from lightest to darkest...

'The problem was finding the time': working class women's writing in Australasia.
October 1, 1993... Sometimes I am too tired To think of you. Today was such a day, But then I knew Today, for certain, you'd be weary too. You there in hospital With health to seek-- And me at my machine Too tired to speak-- We're very funny lovers of a week.(1)...

Hanging out the washing. (short story)
October 1, 1993... she was hanging out the washing, the pegs, the sheets hanging out the washing, hanging out, out she was hanging against the washing, hanging out the washing, hiding in the washing, sighing in the smell of that washing, wishing she could lie in...

We, who can't wait. (poem)
October 1, 1993... We who can't wait Don't give reasons anymore We, who can't wait Decide to take the short cut, these days Without even trying. We who can't wait Sit and do exactly that. While they wonder why We are so, so affected. And can't be polite about it...

Inheritance. (poem)
October 1, 1993... Thinking to live forever you planted vines jasmine and honeysuckle wisteria and poison ivy. Now slashing through undergrowth hacking at branches hairy and thick as a man's arm I remember you and weep.

Blind love. (poem)
October 1, 1993... While I waited for you weeds sprung up unnoticed in the back garden the peeling paper unnoticed on the kitchen wall unfurled still further and the jonquils' beaked hard buds unseen broke into flower Now in the garden the colours are bright as a...

Vis. (poem)
October 1, 1993... I was born in australia. I am named after my grandmother from vis. Vis--an island in the adriatic sea. I can show you a pocket travel guide that says greeks settled on vis two thousand four hundred years ago planting grapevines. It's 1914--my...

The yellowing. (short story)
October 1, 1993... There's a yellowing at the bottom of the garden, behind the eucalyptus trees. Just near the back fence. I'm the only one who can see it. It's there night and day. A kind of bright mist touching all that it comes in contact with, so that parts of...

IV. Donegal. (poem)
October 1, 1993... Q. What's red, white and blue and flies across the ocean at a hundred miles an hour? A. Mountbatten's tennis shoes. (From a BBC live to air broadcast titled The Irish Problem: A Children's Perspective) The Little Stinkers! At the...

Portrait of a crazy artist. (poem)
October 1, 1993... For Paul Even walking with her isn't normal No chance of a casual stroll Never You have to walk ahead or behind while she peers into trees and stops to talk to their residents magpie twenty-eight scrawking wattle-bird the lot! And that's...

A cabbage garden. (poem)
October 1, 1993... From the painting by Jane Sutherland, 1896 Among the cabbages, she is alone, again. Nothing moves in her landscape but the wind is restless, frays smoke from the fire she left burning in the hearth, thin soup for lunch. She is the farmer....

Wichita under siege: notes from the occupation. (short story)
October 1, 1993... The 46-day occupation of Wichita in the summer of 1991 which the anti-abortion and anti-choice group Operation Rescue labelled "Summer of Mercy," resulted in 2,657 arrests of 1,700 people who played the roles of martyrs to their "holy" cause, in...

Green. (short story)
October 1, 1993... His soft form lay in my arms, comfortably. My body, heavy-weary, spread into the yielding chair. The night-shift was nearly over, and sleep hard to fight. I closed my eyes. The sounds of babies crying and women chatting drifted away. Snap open...

Seen to be done.... (poem)
October 1, 1993... We are not barbarians. The man was clearly guilty: he had been convicted in a fair trial. Now, after thirteen years and four appeals, he slept in his own room. We are a civilised people. We let him spend the whole day watching television. That...

Forget forgot forgetting forgotten. (poem)
October 1, 1993... my sister has forgotten forgotten the day seventeen years ago she told me she'd kill herself if she had to stay with her husband said she was leaving him running away with a student eloping with the lodger like a cartoon character out of a joke a...

'A Country Practice:' motherhood, surrogacy and the price of love. (soap opera)
October 1, 1993... A Country Practice aired its last show in its present format in November 1993. In the week leading up to the finale, Channel Seven ran midday repeats of five of the most popular episodes of the long-running soapie--five weddings from the series....

Women writers of Malaysia and Singapore.
October 1, 1993... PART ONE: POETRY IN ENGLISH The fact that it is possible to publish a bibliography of women's poetry and fiction in English from Malaysia and Singapore signifies two major shifts in literary production there which have developed over the last...

Irish women's writing: some thoughts on its critical condition.
October 1, 1993... . . . the first historians of any subject assume a tremendous authority. It is very difficult for the next generation to deny or oppose their categories and judgments. Women writers have been written out of literary history by this very process,...

Debutante Nation: Feminism Contests the 1890s.
October 1, 1993... With the century's end approaching and debates about nationhood in the air, it is good to see some critical writing about the 1890s, the decade from which so much nationalist politics takes its departure. This is especially true if the critiques...