Health Building & Interior Design
Social Housing & Homelessness Celebrity Interviews & Profiles
Other Interviews & Profiles Sex, Gender & Sexuality
Women Social Activism
Columns

Health

The Human Cost of Animal Experiments (Dangers of animal experiments for medical purposes)

The Cost of Beauty (Toxic ingredients in hair & beauty products)


Celebrity Interviews & Profiles

No Pretender (Interview with Pretenders frontwoman CHRISSIE HYNDE

Great Balls of Fire (Interview with tennis legend MARTINA NAVRATILOVA - external link)

Jackie ... Oh!(Interview with Hollywood blockbuster author JACKIE COLLINS

Down to Earth (Interview with MISSY HIGGINS- external link)

An Independent Woman (Interview with comedian & actor LILY TOMLIN)

Everything's Just Peaches (Interview with rock singer PEACHES)

Prince of Puke (Interview with cult film director JOHN WATERS)

Burn Bright Bernhard (Interview with comedian SANDRA BERNHARD)

Art, Sex & Saucepans (Interview with author JEANETTE WINTERSON)

Big Mouth Strikes Again (Interview with feminist CAMILLE PAGLIA)

The Confrontationalist (Interview with multimedia artist LYDIA LUNCH)

The Outsider (Interview with gender theorist KATE BORNSTEIN)

What a Drag (Interview with NY drag institution LADY BUNNY)

Portrait of a Lady (Interview with British transsexual star APRIL ASHLEY)

Complete and Utter County (Interview with trans punk rock icon JAYNE COUNTY)

An Ethical Man (Interview with philosopher PETER SINGER)

Return of The L Word (Interview with actress LEISHA HAILEY)

Provocative Professor (Interview with NY performance artist & writer
KAREN FINLEY)

Mother of Masturbation (Interview with BETTY DODSON)

Love Warriors (Interview with ANNIE SPRINKLE)

Diva of Darkness (Interview with DIAMANDA GALAS)

Sophie Be Good (Interview with singer SOPHIE B HAWKINS)

Penny for Your Thoughts (Interview with NY performance artist PENNY ARCADE)

Penny Arcade (Q&A interview with NY performance artist Penny Arcade)

Living in the Past (Interview with lesbian author Sarah Waters)

A Model Citizen (Interview with Dan Mathews, VP of PETA)

Coffee, Tea & Attitude (Interview with comedian Caroline Reid aka Pam Ann)

Katrina Fox Tastes Crystal's Waters (Interview with singer Crystal Waters)

Interview with Clem Burke, drummer in the band Blondie (external link)

Interview with Jimmy Destri, keyboard player in the band Blondie (external link)

Faithfully Yours (Profile of singer Marianne Faithfull)


Other Interviews & Profiles

A Woman of Mystery (Interview with a lesbian author Claire McNab)

Girls' Own Adventure (Interview with a queer author Michelle Tea)

Unlocking the Puzzle of Fem (Interview with lesbian author Joan Nestle)

Hurly Burly (Interview with lesbian strip club Gurlesque founders)

Magic Mother (Interview with a witch)

Dyke on Top (Interview with female joint MD of Airmiles)

When a Doctor Knows Best (Interview with Dr Neal Barnard)

Hodge Hedges on Equality (Interview with government minister)


Sex, Gender & Sexuality

Brave New World (GLBT community and anti-depressants)

Opening the Scarlet Closet (Lesbian sex workers)

Seen But Not Heard (Deaf lesbians)

Dark Victory (Lesbians & depression)

Animal Passions (Radical veganism for queers)

The Femme Mystique (Femme lesbians)

Bad Girls (Lesbian killers and prison)

Blush (Lesbian erotica)

Genderphobia (Gender & the lesbian community)

June Brides (Same sex marriages)

Dykes for Animal Rights (Lesbian animal rights activists)

Minority Interests (Equal opportunities in the workplace for people who are sex, gender or sexuality diverse)

Magic Mother (Interview with a lesbian witch)

Dyke on Top (Interview with female joint MD of Airmiles)


Women

Move Over Boys (Women in the construction industry)

Female Attraction (Women in the workplace)


Social Activism

Animal Passions (Radical veganism for queers)

Men Behaving Badly (Corporate man)

Dykes for Animal Rights (Lesbian animal rights activists)


Building & Interior Design

Green Energy Market Keeps Growing Quickly (Renewable energy)

Garden Cities (Greening Australian cities)

Light Work (Lighting design)

A Quieter Life (Acoustics rating scheme)

Staying on Quality Street (Importance of quality paint)


Social Housing & Homelessness

Carrot and Stick (Homelessness and rough sleeping)

Just Another Brick in the Wall (Neighbourhood renewal)

On the Defensive (Campaign against transfer of council housing)


Columns

The following are from my regular weekly column, Keeping Abreast, in SX News, Sydney's leading lesbian & gay news, arts and culture magazines. Click HERE to start at the beginning, or click on the individual date links below to go to specific sections.

12 June 2003
Designer Vaginas

3 July 2003
Tipping the Velvet
17 July 2003
Speed Dating & Glass Sex Toys
28 August 2003
Sexpo Exhibition
11 September 2003
Celebrity Lesbian Action

2 October 2003

Studies on Lesbians & Lesbian Chat

6 November 2003

Non-Monogamy

13 November

Gurlesque

23 December 2003

Lesbian Stocking Fillers

8 January 2004

New Year Madness


5 February 2004

Suckatorium Etiquette for Girls

4 March 2004

Sex Club for Girls review
8 April 2004
The L Word
13 May 2004
A Schoolgirl's Revenge
3 June 2004
Debbie (Harry) Does Girls
     
10 June 2004
Sex Education
17 June 2004
Here Comes the Bride
24 June 2004
Diary of a West End Girl (London)
     
6 August 2004
Fat Power
12 August 2004
Deluxe Dunny (Sexpo again)
26 August 2004
A Question of Rights
     
2 September 2004
I'm a Lesbian
21 October 2004
Obsessions
28 October 2004
Attraction
     
4 November 2004
Objectum Sexuality
9 December 2004
Polyphonic ring tones
23 December 2004
It's Christmas Time (Xmas songs)
13 January 2005
Unusual Sexual Practices

20 January 2005
Hello Satan (Satanism)
10 February 2005
Lesbian tennis players
24 February 2005
Parade with Pride
3 March 2005
Bicurious
24 March 2005
Celebrity Moments
     
7 April 2005
We're All Mad
21 April 2005
Relationships & Technology
4 May 2006
Find Your Fetish (The Seekers)
     
15 June 2006
Myspace
13 July 2006
Beautiful People
20 July 2006
Vain pleasures
     
27 July 2006
No Polite Conversation
   
     

From September 2006, my Keeping Abreast columns are now also online on the SX website www.sxnews.com.au and I have also posted them as blog entries, instead of adding them here. This section will no longer be updated. Please click the BLOG button to the left to read more columns and leave feedback...enjoy!