Coming Home
Coming Home- The Sydney Swans It went down like a drug deal. As mum and I sat dejected on a bench outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground — our prospects of scoring all but gone — a man in a cap and sunglasses sat down alongside me and took a huge bite out of his burger. […]
A yarn about Sugar Addiction and Recovery….
I was on a podcast talking about my struggle with and recovery from sugar addiction. Seeking moderation is the accepted treatment for all types of disordered eating, which is ideal when it works. But what if it doesn’t? For some of us, letting go of our ‘drug’ of choice completely is the only path to […]
Getting Horizontal
Not good enough for you, eh? he niggles as he skips down the Nth Av stairs, board underarm. I’m walking up the stairs buzzing after a 10min body bash. I feel bloody amazing, what’s he on about? It takes a few seconds to register that because I didn’t surf on a board, he thinks I’ve deemed […]
Girls Can’t Surf – A Review of Sorts
At a time when Salt-N-Pepa were urging mobs to Push it on the dancefloor, an eclectic bunch of hungry surfing women were truly pushin’ it against the status quo of the 1980s surf world. Pushing for a place in the lineup. And pushing for a place — a legitimate place — in pro surfing. Because they were told overtly they didn’t belong. Girls […]
Beyond Equal Pay, How Do You Define Equality in The Lineup?
In 2018 there was plenty of righteous celebration — and sadly plenty of comment board grumblings — when the WSL announced pay parity for men and women. Finally. Having never surfed competitively let alone professionally, I often wonder what equality looks like for the everywoman surfer when you step outside the realm of pro surfing. […]
Rise of The Cover Girl??
Back in 2012 my constant pestering was rewarded when I was given the task of interviewing Stephanie Gilmore for a special 50 years of Surfing World Issue. As it turned out I wasn’t able to speak with Steph but received her answers via email just after deadline. The editor asked me to put together a […]
Kim McKenzie on Sea Together
Kim Mckenzie (aka @sharkgirlkim on Instagram) is true blue in every sense: a hardcore surfer girl who was one of the first Aussie women to surf Hawaii, she walked away from the sport in her prime to fulfil her obligation as a shark contractor on the Sunshine coast, taking over the role from her father […]
Jeannie Chesser on Sea Together
There’s nothing I love seeing more than older women who are lifelong surfers, particularly those who’ve navigated raising children whilst regularly getting wet. Women so often take on the lion’s share of childrearing and domestic responsibilities and it’s so heartening to see and learn about women that have lived such lives, and are who I’d […]
The Legitimacy of Sugar Addiction: My White Powdery Blow
I wrote this a while ago, but I’ve been too shit scared to share it with people I know. I guess I’ve been scared that people might think my story is lame and the idea of being addicted to sugar and needing to let it go entirely is a hoax. But those are the thoughts that […]
When The World Floats Away
It is the most mortifying of feelings when the uglier parts of your personality come to the fore. It seems these aspects of myself have become more apparent since becoming a mother. The best and worst parts of myself have been magnified to greater amplitudes than I have previously known. Those darker impulses it seems […]