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A bit of a yarn…..

May 9, 2014by margaretmayhew 2 Comments

So – I’ve been a bit quiet on this blog of late. It’s been a big semester of work – and I’m in the middle of a long dark stretch […]

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feelings that don’t have words yet….

March 1, 2014by margaretmayhew Leave a comment

I’m about to dive into a bit of a whirlpool of activity – almost all of it inspiring and good….. and I’m really just trying to make some notes on […]

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And the trumpets they go…..

February 12, 2014by margaretmayhew 1 Comment

Well it’s that fun time of year for casual academics, of no money and nail biting about possible/probably work next year. The guilt-tripping over writing/not writing and mounting credit card […]

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home, homelike, homesick…..

January 20, 2014by margaretmayhew Leave a comment

Friends have heard me whinge for five long and hard years about my homesickness for the city of sandstone cliffs, frothy waves, and blue skies where I lived for nearly […]

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You don’t know what it’s like….

December 9, 2013by margaretmayhew Leave a comment

Each time I visit the detention centre, I feel like everything is in high relief. I’m hyper aware of things before hand and a bit manic afterwards. I suppose this […]

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Writing, crochetting, writing

November 7, 2013by margaretmayhew 3 Comments

This is just a quick post just to note that I haven’t gone to ground. no, not really, I promise. I managed to pull together a nice chapter on precarious […]

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Art, Asylum, Activism

September 30, 2013by margaretmayhew Leave a comment

This is the text of a lecture I gave at La Trobe University on the topic of asylum seekers. the image is of my slowly emerging crochet protest banner. This […]

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Hope is a Muscle

September 6, 2013by margaretmayhew Leave a comment

Hope is a muscle that needs to be exercised regularly. I said this to my friend at the start of this year. He’d been in detention for 18 months, and […]

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A Lesbian and a Muslim walk into a bar….

August 23, 2013by margaretmayhew Leave a comment

Actually, it was an ex-bar, the renovated former Barkly Hotel, which is now host to the west-side Lentil As Anything. I took my friend Ali to show him a place […]

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Memes for Hope

July 25, 2013by margaretmayhew Leave a comment

This is an archive of the stuff floating around the interwebs lately. Spread ’em like butter, please. Firstly, some righteous rage, with shots of Footscray from Pataphysics.  This is one […]

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