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Paige Burton

Paige Burton

On friendship, fiction, and feeling understood

April 2016 was the first time I really shared the toll that my chronic, gnawing, life-altering pain had begun to have on me. It wasn’t to…

Oct 17, 2018

On friendship, fiction, and feeling understood

Oct 17, 2018

Paige Burton

On redefining yourself

It’s 2017. I’m sitting in an old hall by the beach in regional Victoria. It’s late afternoon and everything is cloaked in sunset. I’m…

Jul 13, 2018

Jul 13, 2018

Paige Burton

When the internet tells you it’s good to be poor

Anyone who knows me is likely aware of my dislike for employment-oriented social network LinkedIn. I find the posts simultaneously too…

Dec 18, 2017

When the internet tells you it’s good to be poor

Dec 18, 2017

Paige Burton

2017 Australian Youth Statement to the UN

Below was delivered at the 72nd Session of the General Assembly’s Third Committee.

Oct 31, 2017

Oct 31, 2017

Paige Burton

On young people and the postal vote

Since the announcement of the marriage equality postal vote, my email inbox, survey, and direct messages have been flooded with hundreds of…

Aug 11, 2017

On young people and the postal vote

Aug 11, 2017

Paige Burton

Don’t just do something, stand there.

My YouTube recommended is a strange combination of dog agility competitions, acoustic covers of Broadway hits, irreverent vloggers, and…

May 8, 2017

May 8, 2017

Paige Burton

On pain, and deserving

I suffer from chronic pain; the kind that you tell people is an ache in your knee but actually feels like someone has started squeezing…

Aug 2, 2016

On pain, and deserving

Aug 2, 2016

Paige Burton

Paige Burton

Interested in the things that make us human and the way we talk about those things. Opinions are my own, or borrowed from other, better people.

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