Detachable Penis by Sam Elkin

Detachable Penis by Sam ElkinIn Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, Elkin relates his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgender lawyer in the aftermath of the 2017 marriage equality postal survey. As the inaugural lawyer of Victoria's queer law service, Elkin is quickly immersed in thorny debates around trans inclusion in sport, children's access to puberty blockers, birth certificate law reform and the Christian right's demand for enhanced religious freedoms. Set against the

at night she dreams of her native Somalia

Eleven-year-old Jones Kirby has just moved to Sydney from her farm in country New South Wales

After road tripping to Melbourne with her dad

} Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession

microclimates

Each language is colour-coded throughout this book

Marjane's child's eye view adds immediacy and humour

' Deborah Levy

by a writer at the height of her powers: affecting and intensely beautiful

and in a climate of colonial misinformation

awakening her to the reality of her faltering marriage and her unsteady journey towards becoming a writer

she also begins to question who her father