Comments for jennifer mills - blog

Comment on how not to write by aggyk

aggyk — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:40:42 +0000

love your work always x

Comment on how not to write by jenjen

jenjen — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:48:00 +0000

thank you Amy

Comment on how not to write by Amy Roil

Amy Roil — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:54:40 +0000

Jennifer I love this poem – beautiful. Thanks for sharing

Comment on namin’ names by Dermott

Dermott — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:11:32 +0000

The ABC site says nothing of the Granta original.

Comment on Thriller by Maxine

Maxine — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:55:24 +0000

Hope you stay for Overload Poetry Festival too

Comment on Thriller by Sean the Bookonaut

Sean the Bookonaut — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:08:53 +0000

Come on any time before 12 is scary

Comment on namin’ names by jenjen

jenjen — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:21:09 +0000

Thank you so much for your feedback. It’s going to take a lot more than the occasional article from a white smartarse to unpick the racism at the heart of white australian narratives – but great to see so many willing to think hard about it.

and no, i am not one of Rothwell’s inventions! how terrifying.

Comment on namin’ names by yasminbee

yasminbee — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:55:39 +0000

When I started reading your article I felt some discomfort, like, she cannot write that, it’s really discouraging for white people’s interest of Aboriginal people. Then I thought about coverage of Aboriginal people in the media and how that interest can be condescending and discouraging to me. And I read on. And looked at this blog, and read Sherman Alexie’s awesome poem.
And I think the discomfort is really caused by something bigger, something I try to ignore. History. Present. Recent history, colonisation and policies of assimilation. Intervention and the gap. When I’m caught staring at a homeless alcoholic, distant relative on a bus in Darwin she asks me, “you got a problem?”, I nod and cry inside. I got a problem.
Your article beat some of my conditioned responses. Thank you for writing it.

Comment on namin’ names by Nigel Lendon

Nigel Lendon — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:51:36 +0000

Ah! So jenjen is not a pseudonym for Nicolas Rothwell?

Comment on burning racehorse by Prime

Prime — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:09:58 +0000

Yeah those pebbles add up. It’s a step up from a ping pong ball!
It’s bloody hard to go against the grain these days. Conformity is the order of the day. The competitiveness of the modern workplace can be intimidating, but it’s mostly show. Shitscared pretenders hoping desperately not to be noticed. Don’t let it get to you.
It’s a good thing the business and workplace culture is so successful… otherwise some people might ask if it’s the best way to do things!

And it’s ok to drift along sometimes.

Love that submarine comment, that’ll be getting a run in my repertoire, interchangeable with ‘swimming up a waterfall’ which is getting a bit stale.

Keep up the good work. Righto.