I gave the following speech for the City of Port Phillip's International Women's Day event last night. It was a fabulous event - I spoke alongside writer and activist Celeste Liddle and radio star Jo Stanley - two women I admire greatly. Celeste talked about Aboriginal people use … [Read more...]

  I get a lot of questions about how to talk to kids about facial differences and disability. Most of the time I say to kids "I was born like this, like you were born with blue/green/brown/black eyes" and they accept that. Sometimes I tell them about my ointment and … [Read more...]

    This piece was written and performed for the Quippings love show as part of the Emerging Writers Festival at the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne in June 2017. I also want to add that I feel the medical  photography (especially in my experience) is almost … [Read more...]

Some of you might know I'm writing a book! My book is a memoir - from my own experience of living and thriving with a rare, severe skin condition called ichthyosis. It's called Say Hello and is out with Harper Collins later this year. I am hoping that it helps young people … [Read more...]

I've put off writing this post for a few weeks. I guess I didn't want to get sucked into an outrage cycle, and the enormity of tackling representation issues feels overwhelming. Writing about something that impacts on how people like me are perceived, and then enduring the … [Read more...]