Gabriela Falzon

Gabriela Falzon is a poet, activist and performer. She is currently a student of Sociology and Gender Studies at ANU.

Goulburn Hospital

Goulburn Hospital

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Goulburn Hospital The women of my family end up in hospital beds Surrounded by the people they spend their lives looking after It’s not meant to be ironic But it feels strange Our bodies owned by something else In the hospital beds I’ve visited the women I’m part of...
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    • We’ve Left the University

    We’ve Left the University

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    We’ve left the university I walked out wearing my red flag around my shoulders You left wearing a beret, chanting: ‘The workers, united, will never be defeated’   We left As the campus turned into the dollar sign that it is. A dollar sign Which provides delicious...
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    • Political Science

    Political Science

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    Yes, Let’s! Lets A-politicise all that became somehow political. Until the politics is taken out of politics And the underground of revolution becomes a gathering of silent bodies. We don’t have a will to change the world, We want To control it, To strategise until...
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    • I am a Feminist

    I am a Feminist

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    I am a feminist. I have a powerful body made of solidarity, Built on the strength of our call for justice, Found through the fists of time, Silenced by constant exploitation. I am a feminist. I have won that right at least. Won the right to be disadvantaged, Won the...
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    • Past Issues

    Issue 11:

    PRECARITY

    Precarity’s paradoxical force unites us in a condition of fragmentation and isolation.
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    Issue 10:

    CRISIS

    The change and ruptures in our personal and collective lives, still lingers.
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    Issue 9:

    THE UNIVERSITY

    Excessive managerialism, neoliberalisation and casualisation are some of the main challenges that are threatening the viability and the values of the university today. Lina, Amber and Scott kick off ‘The University’ issue, introducing the core themes and questions.
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    Issue 8:

    BODIES

    This issue of Demos explores the ways in which the body moves through the world – how it labors and loves, how it treads the duplicitous thresholds of legality, how it is radicalised, and eternalised, how it is corralled and transgressed.
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    Issue 7:

    STUDENT ACTIVISM

    Today’s student activists ask themselves: “how did we get here?”, “where are we going?” and “how are we going to get there?”. Issue 7 of Demos Journal concerns itself with these questions representing the history, practice and form of student activism.
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    Issue 6:

    FUTURES POSSIBLE

    Introducing Demos issue 6: the editors take a look into what it means to imagine the future.
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    Issue 5:

    RESISTANCE

    Introducing Demos issue 5: the editors take a look into what it means to resist and affect change.
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    Issue 4:

    PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

    Introducing Demos issue 4: the editors take a look into what boundaries mean to Australian identity today.
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    Issue 3:

    VOICES FROM THE GRASSROOTS

    As a sneak peak into our latest edition, the Demos Editors bring together voices on grassroots organising and activism at ANU, in the Canberra community, and from beyond.
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    Issue 2:

    ARTICULATING SILENCE

    The Demos editorial team bring you a preview of some of the exciting pieces to come with an exploration into the many meanings of silence.
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    Issue 1:

    CREATING DEMOS

    To introduce the exciting diversity of voices that make up the first edition of Demos Journal, we embark upon a reflection on the relation between democracy and creativity itself.
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