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Challenge: Becoming a Runner
ELEANOR TAYLOR | REGULARS When I was a little kid, my sisters and I would go for ‘runs’ with Mum. She’d get in her gear and we’d...
Sep 4, 2021


Lovecraft Country Review
MADI SCOTT | REPEAT OFFENDERS I don’t do scary books. Or fantasy and historical fiction. For someone who reads quite a lot, I really...
Sep 2, 2021


Challenge: Painting in Lockdown
REGULARS | JODIE RAMODIEN I write this article during our eleventh week of lockdown in Sydney where the cases have reached the...
Sep 1, 2021


‘The Kissing Booth 3’ is a Terrible Ending to an Asinine Teen Franchise
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS When the credits of Netflix’s The Kissing Booth 3 finally finished, I was happy. Not because the series...
Aug 31, 2021


An Epidemic of Loneliness
MYKAYLA CASTLE | FEATURES How much has COVID actually changed our social landscape? How are you holding up? It’s the kind of opening...
Aug 31, 2021


Distortions
RHYS SAGE | FEATURES Trigger warning: Contains discussion on depression and mental illness. I was 18 when I was first diagnosed with...
Aug 31, 2021


Falling Into the Uncanny Valley
TIFFANY FONG | FEATURES The Uncanny Valley effect has driven discussion regarding human evolution, sparking theories and folklore as we...
Aug 31, 2021


Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse is an Undervalued 80s’ Slasher Flick
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS "Pay to get in. Pray to get out!" To think this is the film that got Tobe Hooper the directing job for...
Aug 30, 2021


Lunar Park
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES Tighten your seatbelt and Store your phone away. Put your sunglasses down and Relax to the ticking sound. But my...
Aug 30, 2021


A Vanished City
LACHLAN MARNOCH | CREATIVES The superb city of Aresen stands in the highlands of Isol, set inland from the harbours that feed it. A...
Aug 24, 2021


Mob: My Own Little Funhouse
KY STEWART | REGULARS Being gay and Indigenous is a box I will always be in. A box that I have come to know the four walls of quite well...
Aug 24, 2021


You Are Here: Sydney Western Suburbs (Mt Druitt and the Surrounding Area)
TORI S. BARENDREGT | REGULARS From August 2018 to August 2019, I had the opportunity to live overseas in Orlando, Florida, working at...
Aug 24, 2021


Pop Culture Rewind Jumanji: Playing with Lives
TORI S. BARENDREGT | REGULARS JUMANJI A GAME FOR THOSE WHO SEEK TO FIND A WAY TO LEAVE THEIR WORLD BEHIND So says the inside of the...
Aug 24, 2021


Writing on the Wall: The Double Standards of Religious Trauma
ANONYMOUS | REGULARS For as long as I can remember, I've been in the Church. It's a familiar story for a minister's daughter. I sang...
Aug 23, 2021


Grapey Book Club: Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo’s Books and the New Netflix Series JODIE RAMODIEN, KATHLEEN NOTOHAMIPRODJO and RHYS SAGE | REPEAT OFFENDERS In our first...
Aug 22, 2021


The Magic of Political TV Shows
ELEANOR TAYLOR | REPEAT OFFENDERS We want to view our politicians as capable and in control, always playing the long game. Eleanor Taylor...
Aug 22, 2021


Perspective
SARA CHOUDRY | CREATIVES On the cold bathroom floor I lay. The tiles my back presses into have left it sore and aching. Or maybe the...
Aug 22, 2021


I Don’t Get It: Living with Social Anxiety
TORI S. BARENDREGT | REGULARS Life looks fun. I know because I watch people live it every day. Not just in the media, I understand those...
Aug 22, 2021


Marvel Resorts to its Formulaic Familiarities in Unnecessary ‘Black Widow’
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS [Warning: Some spoilers for Avengers: Endgame] I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: the Marvel...
Aug 15, 2021


Outlawed By Anna North
MADI SCOTT | REPEAT OFFENDERS “In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.” Outlawed, the latest novel from Anna North, is...
Aug 10, 2021


Freud And Cancel Culture
NIKITA BYRNES | FEATURES The problem with Freud — and I would like to point out that I am not a psychology student, is that his theories...
Aug 9, 2021


Mob: The Screams That Fill The Land
KY STEWART | REGULARS For our brothers and sisters that were taken from us without mercy. How are we supposed to recover When you took us...
Aug 9, 2021


Lady Linen
BRUNA GOMES | CREATIVES When I got the fitted sheet to slip around the mattress corners creaseless and smooth was the first time I felt...
Aug 9, 2021
Grapeshot acknowledges the Wallumattagal clan, of the Dharug nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was signed, and would like to pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
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