yeah yeah

But basically most of my published work is fiction and my first book is fiction and then I've been foraying into non-fiction in the course of my PhD and now that I've finished that thesis I have a big chunk of a book of essays that I need to finish writing this year hopefully.

A lot of the essays do kind of meet at like different intersections of like indigeneity and gender and sexuality and essentially disability now is like a bigger part of it for sure I'm kind of just I guess using myself as a lens for a whole bunch of stuff but definitely in those essays is that is where I've come to be more like um cognizant of the ways my like disabilities affect my life and stuff like that um some of the first essays I wrote for the I have requirements to survive and be okay and that feels upsetting to realize but actually once you can kind of walk around with that in your head like you can find new ways of doing stuff that are less harmful to yourself So that's, like, been a huge part of that particular project is kind of coming to terms with that.

Especially because I was doing a bit of travel overseas, which was something I hadn't done as an adult.

And just, like, even the idea that I'm going to have to have a few hours of quiet time.

Yeah.

But it culminated in everyone, like, an all-hands-on-deck situation where it became very clear that, like, obviously things weren't okay.

We went back to, like, the medical centre and my mum had actually just gotten a new doctor who had just arrived at the practice, I think.