Stephanie Wood | Journalist
Stephanie Wood
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25.01.2022 I had such fun doing this podcast with the lovely Sandy Lowres of the Good Girl Confessional podcast! (NB: there's a slip in the intro to this ... my book is most definitely NOT a novel ... it's a true story!)...
25.01.2022 Well, this looks like essential viewing ... Monday night on ABC ...
24.01.2022 I’m delighted to be part of the @Proofpoint podcast series Hackable Me, which dives into the truths of #cybercrime and what you can do to protect yourself. Listen now to Episode 3 ‘I Am Not a Robot’ where you’ll hear me talk alongside Joanna Mihelcic, Research Fellow, Monash Uni.
24.01.2022 Time for me to go on a diet... I've been cooking rather a lot of spaghetti carbonara in my 'work' to research this article! Meanwhile, if you like streaky bacon, you're going to LOVE guanciale!
23.01.2022 Sharing this story for these lines alone ... "As human beings, we can all mourn the fact that brave, beautiful Gladys was dating a muppet. God knows, most single women aged over 40 usually are."... But yes, I agree with Samantha, it defies belief that Notre-Dam-sized bells weren't ringing for Gladys about what her muppet was up to. I'm allowed to ignore alarm bells about a fleabag boyfriend, I did, but the Premier ... she's not in a position to do so.
22.01.2022 Horrifying, gripping ABC Australian Story tonight. You can catch up on iView. Part 2 next Monday night.
21.01.2022 This is the most jaw-dropping story. The evils of nationalism. A mother's love. The big big heart and tenacity of a daughter. The horror of Lou Gehrig's disease. ' "Has your mom died yet?" China15z0dj wants to know. Your mom will be dead Haha. 1.4 billion people wish for you to join her in Hell. Haha! '
20.01.2022 Wow, how extraordinary this looks...
20.01.2022 A beautifully written story, but also absolutely heartbreaking. America.
17.01.2022 Love this story and such beautiful photography. 'Among the towers of surplus goods, I spot perfectly camouflaged placards with slogans like We won’t stay silent and We demand justice. '
15.01.2022 Guess I should share this ...
14.01.2022 How lovely this is ...
14.01.2022 Self-help advice that really has something going for it... love this column! '.... major personal decisions should be made not by asking, Will this make me happy?, but Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me? We’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy: the question swiftly gets bogged down in our narrow preferences for security and control. But the enlargement question elicits a deeper, intuitive response.'
13.01.2022 An incredibly important story to read and to share... 'A tear of love. A tear of loss. A tear that should create a tsunami for change.'
13.01.2022 I am writing something that has required I do some research into the history of 'stay making' (corsetry, although I suspect as I delve into this further I will learn that stays are different from corsets).... found this, which is so interesting ... We can condemn the concept of corsets and the pain they created but I think you'd have to agree - the workmanship is so exquisite.
10.01.2022 Wow, this story ... what a loss to society ... watch over your loved ones.
09.01.2022 For a little while I considered the idea of having a child on my own but I didn't have the strength. All power to the women who do. Great story by Alexandra Collier. 'This is a man I’ll never have to watch eat breakfast, his mouth agape. Who won’t announce to me on our first date that his life is in flux right now. Who won’t lecture me on how a keto diet really can cure depression.'
09.01.2022 These ghastly men, they're like a pestilence ...
09.01.2022 Heartbreaking story by my lovely and clever colleague Sharon Bradley. The stories are wrenching, but one of the most interesting thing in the story is the concept of "concept creep". '... parents and adult kids aren’t speaking the same emotional language. When a parent says, I don’t understand what I’ve done wrong, it’s not because the child hasn’t told them, he goes on to explain: it’s because what they’ve been told doesn’t make sense to them in terms of how they think about the issues at stake. There’s a generational divide when it comes to interpreting what defines traumatising, abusive or neglectful behaviour. A lot of my work is about teaching the parent to speak the same language as the adult child, says Coleman, because it’s typically the parent who seeks me out. '
08.01.2022 I wrote a little story about how Can Too Run and Swim helped me finish a 1km ocean swim... link to story at the bottom of this post... 'Slowly, I started to see that, thanks to Can Too, I might indeed be able to swim a kilometre in the ocean on race day. That’s not to say there weren’t terrifying training sessions. I remember one at North Bondi when the waves were mountainous grey mouths with teeth and the water was icy. Diving under the waves took me into a turbulent underworld, a dark swirling mess of sand and spume, and I felt the surging power of the water above me.'
08.01.2022 Stories like this make my blood boil. Her ex-husband is probably living on clover. 'Before she got into public housing, Jacobs would choose between her medication or electricity bills and got very good at all different types of instant noodles, her one meal of the day.'
07.01.2022 I've discovered that dog parks are prime territory for mansplaining ... how things have changed from the early days walking my new puppy Lola when I enthusiastically chatted to anyone, to now, where there are several people I do my best to avoid! 'there’s a very strong sense in women that she should provide a pleasant audience to him, one that doesn’t interrupt him. Correcting someone is an inherently hierarchical act. It’s saying You’re wrong; I’m right. Jumping in when he’s mistaken or less expert is inverting the gender hierarchy. Even though a woman is perfectly entitled to intervene, it’s perceived by men who feel entitled to a smooth exchange as socially abrupt, rude and even a form of violence.'
07.01.2022 I thought I'd read every story there was about fakes, con artists, scammers, catfishers etc ... but here's one from a completely different angle. 'I try not to obsess over all the things my stand-ins are saying on the internet to other lonely people, but it seems they’ve been busy. If you find yourself messaging with one, I hope he tells you you’re beautiful, and that you believe it, even if you don’t believe him. It’s important, I’ve learned, to peel back the lies until you can see the truth.'
07.01.2022 A flood is coming ... "This autumn brings a spate of books and podcasts exploring middle-aged women’s experiences with the same raw honesty previously applied by female writers to childbirth, abortion, chronic anxiety or bad sex."
07.01.2022 I watched Ep 1 of the latest 'The Crown' last night ... what do we all think? I find it a bit excruciating to watch ... awkward, mawkish ... but I couldn't turn away ... Here's what the New Yorker says about it ... 'You have to read their thoughtsthe flickering hurt, the mirth, the dull incomprehension, the angerbecause rarely does their spoken language approximate what you can see them experiencing. Morgan takes the Windsors’ collective repression and makes it a style.'
05.01.2022 Was so privileged to get the chance to write my first article for Australian Vogue and tell the remarkable story of these three women, who helped save a small South Coast village during the bushfires. ' She remembers attending a fire on a property outside Bawley in September. Where’s your lipstick, ladies? the owner said. She gets cross when the brigade’s older dudes become protective of them because they’re women. Like, Charlie will call us ’the girls’ and I’ll say: ‘Charlie, we’re women, and I can probably do that better than you can.’ '
05.01.2022 Absolutely fascinating story ... so much to unpack here. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it’s at the moment when the gender binary system is being challenged more intensely than ever before that we see gender reveal events become more and more performative and over-the-top."
04.01.2022 Was such a treat to meet three fierce and amazing South Coast women fire-fighters for my first story for Vogue magazine.
04.01.2022 A bit of fabulousness from the New Yorker ... with apologies to those of my male followers who do as much if not more than their fair share.
04.01.2022 I'll be honest. I've had a low couple of days. Finding it hard being the solo owner of a small tremendously energetic puppy. Finding life in still-Covid-affected Sydney strange and solitary (I know Melbourne friends ... you are doing it so hard!). And I think I am feeling some of what is expressed in this article. The feelings don't ever really go away, the sense of failure, invisibility, irrelevance. I'd add one thing though. "Non-mothers" (how I hate that term) don't fit n...eatly into three categories as this article suggests (those for whom IVF has failed, those who decided they didn't want children and fence-sitters). There are host of other reasons women don't have children. This is what I wrote in an article in 2016 about this subject: "The most tedious and censorious of the baloney spoken about women who have not had children is that they are selfish and put their careers first. But the fact is, many of these women wanted children. Of the 776 women aged 25 to 44 who were involved in one recent Deakin University study into the lives of childless women, 21 per cent had not had children through circumstance, such as the no-show of an appropriate partner." See more
