Ann DeslandesBumble (on the occasion of leaving Mexico City)You kiss me with an urgent anxiety because you’re cheating on someone, or because you have to contain me so I don’t spill your contents, or…·5 min read·Apr 28, 2024--1--1
Ann DeslandesOn thinking of the childrenThe problem is immigration detention.·4 min read·Sep 25, 2019----
Ann DeslandesThe right to choose in Latin America: La lucha sigue“Sex education to decide, contraceptives to prevent abortion, legal abortion to not die.” These were the words that introduced the…·4 min read·Oct 21, 2018----
Ann DeslandesCake in juice: Craft beer, Singapore styleI was a desert-dwelling South Australian, new to the tropical heat of Singapore, and I was thirsty.·4 min read·Jul 5, 2018--1--1
Ann DeslandesUniversity of Sydney ‘marketing portfolio’ needs to take a humanities classAs the Guardian reported on Friday, a University of Sydney ad intended to recruit students to study at the sandstone institution has been…·2 min read·Feb 5, 2018----
Ann DeslandesA Radical New Solution To Family Violence And A Look At How We Can Bring Shelter HomeIn the five years that I worked in refuges for women and children in Sydney, I did not meet one so-called client who did not carry some…5 min read·May 16, 2017--1--1
Ann Deslandes“Violence Is Nurturance Turned Backwards”: Is Nurturance Culture The Solution To Toxic Masculinity?The feminist and feminist-adjacent internet had a mild implosion in February in response to an article by Canadian organiser, writer, and…7 min read·May 16, 2017----
Ann DeslandesThe World Should Take Note Of Barcelona’s Popular Movement To Close Down Immigration Detention…Way back in August 2015 I chanced upon the headline, ‘Catalan Parliament votes in favour of the closure of the CIEs [Centros de…5 min read·May 16, 2017----
Ann DeslandesHow A Simple Google Doc Called “What To Do Instead Of Calling The Police” Went Viral And Why It…This year, social justice warriors and those who love to hate them have probably come across the humble GoogleDoc What to do instead of…5 min read·May 16, 2017----
Ann DeslandesMeet Rose Vines — From Darlinghurst Activist To Exonerating Death Row Inmates In A Compulsory…The story of how a “feminist lesbian atheist Aussie geek” ended up on the other side of the world hanging out with reprobate nuns, maximum…6 min read·May 16, 2017----