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- Boxtrollsi"so hear us out,", single work poetry
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Actress and Director Rachel Griffiths,
single work
essay
'Throughout her illustrious acting career, Rachel Griffiths has often spoken out against injustice. She discusses power and its abuses, her upcoming ABC series, and how Catholicism informs her feature-length directorial debut, Ride Like a Girl. “I think my faith is aesthetically Catholic, not through any allegiance to Rome. I have no faith in the Catholic structure or any structure that doesn’t include women and is designed to entrench power using secrecy and threat.” ' (Introduction)
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Amanda Niehaus : The Breeding Season,
single work
review
— Review of The Breeding Season 2019 single work novel ;'We spend most of our lives doing whatever we can to keep our bodies separate from our minds, but the world doesn’t have to work too hard to remind us they’re inextricable, the implication being that some day we will die. This tension is the rich theme of Amanda Niehaus’s first novel, which follows a straight Brisbane couple in the months following a miscarriage.' (Publication summary)