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25.01.2022 Even with all the perks in the world, making a living as a freelancer is tough.

25.01.2022 Ever ridden in the luggage hold of a bus?

25.01.2022 Do you know the ah Circassians?" Mum would explain, somewhat shyly, whenever someone asked about her strange accent. "Group of people that lived in the Caucasus. In Russia.

25.01.2022 A gorgeous reminder of why we love to travel so goddamn much: experience, a window into culture and connection beyond words.

25.01.2022 Gourmet ganja slices, a fat black python and a life lived outside the box of modern consumerism

25.01.2022 "Just as artists and writers are so contradictory, their routines are not linear they are not supposed to begin and end at a certain time of day, to write however many words or paint however many paintings, or to materialise books in the span of a year or so."

24.01.2022 Cocktail ingredients: Smirnoff Red, Capitan Morgan, White Rum, Tequila, Jose Cuervo, Gordons Gin, Blue Curacao and a teaspoon of Sprite... a true recipe for disaster.

24.01.2022 "Mainstream journalism is a bit like a sausage. It’s consumable, but if you knew how they made it you wouldn’t swallow it." Chris Graham of New Matilda did a little write-up for our upcoming weeklong investigative journalism workshop on Stradbroke Island. It starts on June 27 and we’ve only got 2 SPACES left! Email our editor Gem at [email protected] if you wanna come.

24.01.2022 What do you think it is? my mum whispered in her teeth...

24.01.2022 "I don’t trust the ocean. The combination of anxious immigrant parents and growing up in Australia where most things in the ocean want to kill you has always made me wary..."

23.01.2022 Were hosting a week-long writing retreat in our magical homeland the first week of spring! Spend a week living with a group of aspiring pen wizards in a glorious beach setting while you learn all the skills necessary to kickstart your freelance writing career.

22.01.2022 Due to state border closures and the ongoing need for many of us to stay locked down, weve lost a few Victorians from our upcoming Byron writing workshop. Were gutted to say the least, but are still within the bounds of both the law and common sense for our small-group retreat to go ahead. What this means is we now have two places available for our workshop running August 30 September 6! If youre a NSW resident living outside a COVID hotspot who wants to spend a week learning the ropes of freelance writing and how to start your own publication, get in touch ASAP by filling in the form below or by emailing our editor Gemma Clarke at [email protected]. Were also tentatively looking at running another Byron program from December 6 13, so if youre keen on that, hit us up too!

22.01.2022 What could be bad about encouraging more people to go to uni and become nurses and teachers and scientists, especially at a time like this? Nothing at all until they announced it would come at the cost of other students.

21.01.2022 "Being in our twenties, and pulled by the desire to constantly travel, means monogamy doesnt always feel like an adequate option..."

20.01.2022 "To describe the panic and pain that comes with inhaling tear gas is fairly impossible. It feels like a cinnamon challenge, but the cinnamon is on fire and the spoon is on fire everything is on fire."

20.01.2022 "When I finished studying, I didnt feel like I had gained a degree; I felt like I had just suddenly lost university."

20.01.2022 I spent hours trying to convince Ruby that the Earth was a sphere, that it revolved around the Sun, and of all the other basic principles of gravity that you learn in year 5...

19.01.2022 Spend a week in a funky Byron beach house this September as you learn the ropes of freelance writing and how to start your own publication. Weve currently got four spaces left, so if you want in on this tasty adventure, get an application in ASAP!

19.01.2022 Kickstart the new year with a writing retreat in Byron Bay! Learn the ins and outs of freelancing, get published, produce a radio story and get your own blog or publication off the ground.

19.01.2022 "It is as if American-influenced media has crafted a consumable black character that we all must adhere to for any sense of belonging or sympathy. Because I played basketball for a year as a kid, people assumed I would be a star player. Because I went through a hip-hop phase as a teenager, people assumed I could spit a verse. Because I looked like that baller, that rapper or some character from a movie, people assumed that the N word would fuel some sort of reaction from me."

19.01.2022 Yesterday, Peter Gleeson wrote a sickenly racist op-ed for The Sunday Telegraph where he said, The reality is that the greatest danger to aboriginals and n*groes is themselves. A slightly tweaked version also appeared in the Sunday Herald and the Courier Mail. How the hell it was allowed to run to print well never understand, but make a complaint and #BOYCOTTMURDOCH: https://www.presscouncil.org.au/making-a-complaint/

19.01.2022 "I hear people talking, making love, making love to themselves. Nobody suspects that I am going through a near-to-death experience behind those thick purple curtains. Big dorms are like tiny buildings with tiny apartments."

18.01.2022 PlssSsss make it stop (via @dingo_skinner666)

18.01.2022 Spend a week in a funky Byron Bay beach house this summer as you learn the ropes of freelance writing. Workshops will focus on storytelling, pitching to an editor, radio production, starting your own publication and decolonising travel writing. Places are strictly limited, so if you want in on this tasty adventure, get an application in ASAP!

17.01.2022 LOOKING FOR A VIDEOGRAPHER! If you’re an aspiring writer AND you’re super savvy behind the lens, we want to send you on our upcoming Byron Bay writing retreat FOR FREE. The program starts this Sunday December 6, and includes a week of accommodation in a funky beach house, airport pickup and daily workshops exploring the ins and outs of freelance writing, radio production, decolonising your mind, pitching to an editor and starting your own publication. ... In exchange, we’ll expect you to make three one-minute videos of the retreat for our social media. Photography skills (film especially) will be a very welcome bonus! To express your interest, email [email protected].

17.01.2022 I don’t want to do this job for that long. I don’t want to do it now if I’m honest. Who wants to sit around and talk to disgusting men? Nobody.

16.01.2022 Depression is not a sadness. Sadness is a feeling and depression is the absence of feeling. Negativity masks everything you do, from standing on top of a mountain, to having sex with your girlfriend...

16.01.2022 The idea of getting stuck brings up memories of me hiding naked in a grand piano at 16 while my then-boyfriends mum vacuumed the lounge around it. If youre reading this Rosemary lets talk.

16.01.2022 Come frolic in Byron Bay with us for a week of creativity, connection and adventure. Learn how to pitch, get published, produce a radio story and start your own blog or publication.

15.01.2022 But Ive never delivered a baby before!

15.01.2022 Weve got our first Byron Bay writing workshop starting in less than a week, and are tickled pink to announce that Maz Rose Mansfield-Njie is joining our talented teaching team!!! Maz is an African Queen from Bristol in the UK. She studied a Philosophy, Psychology & History of Science Joint Honours at university, so can probably read your mind. In her spare time, Maz loves drawing her own nudes, writing poems about her bi-racial heritage and is partial to a good ol true ...crime documentary. She is especially passionate about self-love, Hip hop and sausage rolls. Professionally speaking, Maz is the founder and co-host of Chatting BS, a podcast defined by non-judgemental and honest discussions on modern social issues. Maz was also a co-host on Babycakes, a sex positivity radio show that aimed to dismantle taboos and prejudices to educate and empower women of all races. Currently, she is the co-host of Lowkey on Bay FM 99.9 - Byron Bay Australia, specifically providing the new music section. With her previous experience, she hopes to start her own similarly thought-provoking radio show Dont Touch My Hair soon, so stay tuned! See more

13.01.2022 "Tornado Warning in this area til 6:15 PM CDT. Take shelter now. Check local media."

13.01.2022 If Nonna were to go back in time, she would tell herself not to get married so young. In her words, You don’t know yourself at that age.

12.01.2022 Ditch winter for the Queensland tropics and attend a month-long travel writing workshop in Cairns! Refine your copywriting and journalism skills, learn to pitch and get a bunch of stories published.

12.01.2022 "I dont trust the ocean. The combination of anxious immigrant parents and growing up in Australia where most things in the ocean want to kill you has always made me wary..."

12.01.2022 In all my dreaming of what life would look like in Tokyo, I didnt account for the mundane aspects of everyday life...

11.01.2022 Theres nowhere quite like the racist, smeared-out suburbs of redneck Australia to re-establish yourself after three years of travel...

11.01.2022 This is a REAL (but thankfully scrapped) British government-backed ad suggesting a ballerina retrain for a job in ‘cyber’. The spoofs are pretty damn good (and if you know who to credit please lmk). Piss off Tories, ART IS WORK.

11.01.2022 "I can tell you exactly where my siblings and my placentas are buried, right next to my great aunts home. I learned this all before I was six years old and could recite it proudly on command."

11.01.2022 "Here I am, on my knees for a white man."

11.01.2022 You too big. Nothing fit.

10.01.2022 "There is nothing like this back in the UK. Sauntering into a polling station, nodding to a crusty council volunteer and knocking an ‘X’ on the paper seems lacklustre in comparison."

10.01.2022 "Talking on the phone every day can actually be quite tricky. I found it especially difficult during the most monotonous days of lockdown I would often have nothing to say, because nothing was new or different..."

08.01.2022 WHICH ONE ARE YOU?

07.01.2022 "I feel anxious about dinner parties. I often make excuses not to attend so that I avoid burdening others with the fact I dont eat meat, scared of being dismissed as a hippie or greenie. But why am I afraid of these terms? How can they even be used as insults? To be anything other than a climate activist in todays world seems quite irrational..."

06.01.2022 It’s a look of adjustment -- that fraction-of-a-second shift you see in somebody’s face, a twitch of their eyebrows and then a smile-in-recovery when your English is better than they expected. You see relief, because talking to you won’t require any extra effort, mixed with a tepid kind of comfort, because you’re more or less one of them. Sometimes, hopefully most of the time, you see a touch of guilt.

05.01.2022 Via @dingo_skinner666

04.01.2022 A space has opened up in our sold-out Byron Bay writing retreat! Spend a week this December in a funky beach house as you learn the ins and outs of freelance writing, from pitching to an editor to starting your own publication.

04.01.2022 Im not saying this was the only reason I persevered to learn Bahasa Indonesian, but it was definitely one of them...

04.01.2022 "Nothing symbolises Western society particularly its notion of time as a commodity for sale better than the taxi drivers meter."

04.01.2022 We’re going to call the monkey Cheeky Charlie.

04.01.2022 I think Diego likes you, Leyla, I said. He better, she replied. Last night I gave him the best blow-job of his life.

03.01.2022 After months of living in a Buddhist monastery, it was time to let loose...

03.01.2022 "I see my friends settling into careers, even though so few are doing what makes them happy. Friends who acted, who sang or who talked about seeing the world are now locked in jobs that pay enough, but not a lot. Jobs that drain them so much that their free time is just a chance to recover for the next week. They dont create anymore. They dont have the energy..."

03.01.2022 Have a geeze at what a week in Byron Bay with Global Hobo looks like shot on film then hand-processed, scanned and edited by the wickedly talented Tom Schulte. If you’re keen to join us for a dreamy week of creativity, purpose, connection and adventure, we’ve got a handful of spaces left in our February and May writing workshops. Our change and refund policies are super flexible in light of the dreaded spicy cough, so you can book a trip with peace of mind. If you wanna a...pply or just find out a bit more, click here: https://globalhobo.com.au//do-a-writing-retreat-in-byron-/ p.s. The vid is set to the groovy sounds of Sweet Music by JB Paterson.

02.01.2022 Via Mad Fucking Witches and @femmocollective with love and rage!! Nobody published the photos or names of the people returning from skiing in Aspen. Nobody published the photos or names of the people behaving irresponsibly at dinner parties and restaurants all over the country.... Nobody even published the photos or names of the security guards doing the wrong thing at hotel quarantine, or their bastard employers who took the Victorian governments money for training them and instead, simply left them to it without oversight or PPE or anything else. In fact, the identities of many of the fuck-heads catching #COVID19 because of their own stupidity were DELIBERATELY HIDDEN by these publications, because they fear being sued. Yet when it comes to women - YOUNG, BLACK, POOR WOMEN WITH NO MONEY TO SUE - all fucking bets are off for #NewsCorpse. Yes - these women have obviously done the wrong thing. They need to be controlled and possibly punished. But the reporting here is absolutely fucking shameful. They are TEENAGERS. All evidence is they came back to Queensland because theyre CASUAL WORKERS. And now, theyre the new face of rabid hate for the whole country. Their faces splashed everywhere, along with their names. And unfounded reports they went to Melbourne to break the law are unfounded, and highly defamatory. None of that matters to Rupert Murdoch. Nothing but maintaining a racist narrative so he can continue to win elections is of importance to him. And none of these abhorrent headlines seem to take into account that OUR OWN FUCKING SO-CALLED PRIME MINISTER - who weve now dubbed #ScottyMcSlaughter - wants the borders to all states opened, which would mean ANYONE could and would do what these young women have done. In fact, your so-called PM is so fucking DESPERATE to open the borders that he is HELPING CLIVE PALMER SUE THE WEST AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT IN THE HIGH COURT to bring this about. How the fuck can these young women be enemies of the state, but the leader of this country - who wants anyone to be able to do just this - is NOT? What the actual flying fuck? See more

02.01.2022 "Every good road trip starts with a morning after pill."

01.01.2022 "I felt nauseous, but not because of the blood still staining my hands and clothes because of the reaction of every person whod looked at us that night and then looked the other way."

01.01.2022 Within minutes, we had a fake Tinder profile for 41-year-old Mary last name Jane. For a picture, we settled on something subtle, yet screamingly obvious: Oscar the Grouch, the big nug of weed that resides in a bin.