AustLit logo

AustLit

Red Dust, Jet Streams and Chanel No.5 single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Red Dust, Jet Streams and Chanel No.5
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Post-polio syndrome
    Type of character Primary
    Point of view First person (autobiographical)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Growing Up Disabled in Australia Carly Findlay (editor), Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2021 18429837 2021 anthology autobiography

    'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.

    'I didn’t grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.

    'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.

    'The diagnosis helped but it didn’t fix everything.

    'Don’t fear the labels.'

    'One in five Australians have a disability. And disability presents itself in many ways. Yet disabled people are still underrepresented in the media and in literature.

    'Growing Up Disabled in Australia is the fifth book in the highly acclaimed, bestselling Growing Up series. It includes interviews with prominent Australians such as Senator Jordon Steele-John and Paralympian Isis Holt, poetry and graphic art, as well as more than 40 original pieces by writers with a disability or chronic illness.

    'Contributors include Dion Beasley, Astrid Edwards, Jessica Walton, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Gayle Kennedy and El Gibbs.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2021
    pg. 152-160
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Growing Up in Australia Black Inc. (editor), Carlton : Black Inc. , 2021 21936408 2021 anthology autobiography

    'This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.’s definitive 'Growing Up' series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up AsianGrowing Up AboriginalGrowing Up AfricanGrowing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways.

    'Growing Up in Australia also features gems from essential Australian memoirs such as Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race, Rick Morton’s 100 Years of Dirtand Stan Grant’s Talking to My Country.

    'Contributors include Tim Winton, Benjamin Law, Melissa Lucashenko, Magda Szubanski, Christos Tsiolkas and many more.

    'With a foreword by Alice Pung, this anthology is a wonderful gift for adult and adolescent readers alike.'

    Source : publisher's blurb

    Carlton : Black Inc. , 2021
Last amended 4 Nov 2024 13:21:19
X