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Please join us for one of the most anticipated conversations of the year. Canberran, Emma Batchelor will be In Conversation with Zoya Patel About this Event
Please join us for one of the most anticipated conversations of the year. Canberran, Emma Batchelor will be In Conversation with Zoya Patel discussing her award-winning novel Now
That I See You - an authentic and original exploration of complicated love. An event not to be missed!
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Now That I See You
Now That I See You details the breakdown of a long-term relationship after one partner discloses to the other that they are transgender. This piece of autofiction is told from the perspective of a female narrator over a period of eighteen months, spanning the first discovery of unknown feminine hairs in her male partner’s bathroom through Jess’s transition from presenting as male to female, and then to the relationship’s eventual disintegration. Personal journal entries and letters to Je
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Today we saunter through the world of words. Two Australian lexicographers Sue Butler and Amanda Laugesen explore how words come about in a dictionary.
Our language reflects the changing texture of the Australian community, growing religious diversity and multiculturalism. And with these changes, words like
karma,
temple and
Zen have entered popular use. At the same time, these words can have complex meanings and associations, particularly within the religious communities that produced them.
So how do words come and go from our dictionaries? And what does that say about our wider society?
We also look at slang, words used by convicts, and find out if swearing is the marker of our particular brand of Australian English.