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‘I don’t care, I know I look good’: Dan Daw on kink, disability and ‘powerful crip joy’
The Australian dancer set out to create his ideal sub-dom experience on stage. Could it help audiences express their desires in the world outside of sex?
Steve Dow
30, May, 2023 @3:00 PM
Do Not Go Gentle review – a profound exploration of ageing and dementia
Patricia Cornelius’s play co-opts Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the south pole to follow a band of adventurers who are actually in an aged care home
Steve Dow
28, May, 2023 @1:30 AM
Debut author Debra Dank breaks records at NSW premier’s literary awards
The Gudanji/Wakaja writer won four prizes and took home $85,000 for We Come with This Place – a book she never intended to publish
Steve Dow
22, May, 2023 @9:45 AM
From a Himalayan kingdom to western Sydney: one man’s journey against his own victimhood
Om Dhungel escaped ethnic persecution in Bhutan to make a new life in Australia. The strength and potential of refugees like him, he says, is vastly underestimated
Steve Dow
30, Apr, 2023 @12:00 AM
‘They just go to Thailand’: the long and costly wait for gender-affirming surgery in Australia
Transgender Australians seeking lower body procedures can go to just a handful of local surgeons. It means long waits, huge costs and difficult decisions
Steve Dow
22, Apr, 2023 @8:00 PM
Fences review – Australian debut of August Wilson play is a remarkable achievement
Wharf 1, Sydney Theatre Company
The STC’s production of the Pulitzer-winning play, about a flawed patriarch wrestling with self-destruction, is lead by a uniformly excellent cast
The STC’s production of the Pulitzer-winning play, about a flawed patriarch wrestling with self-destruction, is lead by a uniformly excellent cast
Steve Dow
31, Mar, 2023 @1:15 AM
10,000 kazoos and body-horror ballet: Rising festival 2023 invites Melbourne to get involved
The winter festival will feature an immersive First Nations exhibition in an old grand ballroom, and a participatory performance by a virtuoso recorder player
Steve Dow
13, Mar, 2023 @7:00 PM
‘How do you grow up in an anti-ageing world?’: Hansel and Gretel gets a dystopic, hi-tech update
Using bone conduction headphones to sow seeds of mistrust in the audience, Adelaide festival’s Hans & Gret has its creators on their toes
Steve Dow
28, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM
Sydney WorldPride opening concert: Kylie and Dannii Minogue gloriously launch season of golden hot pants
Live and Proud was a drag spectacular, with Casey Donovan and Charli XCX among the many highlights
Steve Dow
24, Feb, 2023 @9:31 PM
Vacant shopfronts v the WorldPride takeover: is Oxford Street ready for Mardi Gras?
Once billed as Sydney’s golden queer mile, the strip has born the brunt of lockouts, lockdowns and gentrification. On the eve of its first parade since 2020 – and its biggest yet – the pressure is on
Steve Dow
21, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM
‘I had to get out of there’: an Australian survivor of homosexuality ‘cures’ tells her story
Lee Clayton’s account of being hospitalised, sedated and almost undergoing brain surgery has inspired a storyline in a new play on at WorldPride
Steve Dow
17, Feb, 2023 @7:00 PM
‘The joy is waking up and liking who you are’: six LGBTQ+ guiding lights on the long road to now
A pioneering set of older queer Australians share their stories of prejudice, pride and living with joy not fear
Steve Dow Photography: Carly Earl
10, Feb, 2023 @2:00 PM
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