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The Family Law

by Benjamin Law ...

Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humourist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions. Why won't his Chinese ... Read more

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Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humourist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions. Why won't his Chinese
... Read more
Growing Up Queer in Australia

Edited by Benjamin Law ...

No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.I became acutely aware of the parts of myself that were unpalatable to queers who grew up in the city.My queerness was born in a hot dry ... Read more

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No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.I became acutely aware of the parts of myself that were unpalatable to queers who grew up in the city.My queerness was born in a hot dry
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Also available as: Audiobook
Gaysia

Adventures in the Queer East

by Benjamin Law ...

Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage. But as the child of immigrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to meet his fellow Gaysians. Law takes his investigative duties seriously, going nude where required ... Read more

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Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage. But as the child of immigrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to meet his fellow Gaysians. Law takes his investigative duties seriously, going nude where required
... Read more
Torch the Place

MTC NEXTSTAGE ORIGINAL

by Benjamin Law ...

Teresa's mum finds it impossible to let anything go-from grudges to household objects. She thinks of her home as a museum full of irreplaceable treasures. But she's not really a curator, she's a hoarder, and her house is enough to give Marie Kondo heart palpitations. When her kids return home to celebrate her 60th birthday, she's over the moon to have the family back together. But this isn't a ... Read more

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Teresa's mum finds it impossible to let anything go-from grudges to household objects. She thinks of her home as a museum full of irreplaceable treasures. But she's not really a curator, she's a hoarder, and her house is enough to give Marie Kondo heart palpitations. When her kids return home to celebrate her 60th birthday, she's over the moon to have the family back together. But this isn't a
... Read more
Quarterly Essay 67 Moral Panic 101

Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal

by Benjamin Law ...

Series Book 67 - Quarterly Essay
Are Australian schools safe? And if they’re not, what happens when kids are caught in a bleak collision between ill-equipped teachers and a confected scandal?In 2016, the Safe Schools program became the focus of an ideological firestorm. In Moral Panic 101, Benjamin Law explores how and why this happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping account of schools today, sexuality, teenagers, new ideas of ... Read more

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Are Australian schools safe? And if they’re not, what happens when kids are caught in a bleak collision between ill-equipped teachers and a confected scandal?In 2016, the Safe Schools program became the focus of an ideological firestorm. In Moral Panic 101, Benjamin Law explores how and why this happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping account of schools today, sexuality, teenagers, new ideas of
... Read more
Dying: A Memoir

Based on the book by Cory Taylor

by Benjamin Law, Cory Taylor ...

When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017. With honesty and unsentimental clarity Taylor confronts the swamp of anxiety and despair that traditionally surrounds death and opens the door to the bright clear-eyed vision it ultimately ... Read more

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When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017. With honesty and unsentimental clarity Taylor confronts the swamp of anxiety and despair that traditionally surrounds death and opens the door to the bright clear-eyed vision it ultimately
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Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories

by Michael Earp, Michael Earp, Benjamin Law, Christos Tsiolkas, Nevo Zisin, Alison Evans, Erin Gough, Jen Wilde, Marlee Jane Ward, Ellen Van Neerven0, Jax Jacki Brown1, Omar Sakr2, Claire G Coleman3 ...

Twelve of Australia’s best writers from the LGBTQ+ community are brought together in this ground-breaking collection of YA short stories.What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #LoveOzYA collection, twelve of Australia’s finest writers from the LGBTQ+ community explore the stories of family, friends, lovers and strangers – the connections that form us. This ... Read more

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Twelve of Australia’s best writers from the LGBTQ+ community are brought together in this ground-breaking collection of YA short stories.What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #LoveOzYA collection, twelve of Australia’s finest writers from the LGBTQ+ community explore the stories of family, friends, lovers and strangers – the connections that form us. This
... Read more
The Book That Made Me

A Collection of 32 Personal Stories

by Randa Abdel-Fattah, Bernard Beckett, Cathy Cassidy, Felicity Castagna, Queenie Chan, Kate Constable, Rachael Craw, Alison Croggon, Cath Crowley, Ted Dawe, Ursula Dubosarsky, Simon French, Mandy Hager, Simmone Howell, Catherine Johnson, Will Kostakis, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Benjamin Law, Julia Lawrinson, Sue Lawson, Brigid Lowry, Emily Maguire, Catherine Mayo, Sue McPherson, Jaclyn Moriarty, Mal Peet, James Roy, Shaun Tan, Jared Thomas, Fiona Wood, Markus Zusak ...

Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time? ... Read more

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Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time?
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Law School

Sex and Relationship Advice from Benjamin Law and his mum Jenny Phang

by Benjamin Law, Jenny Phang ...

“Warning: this book contains a back-to-back feast of frank, funny and adorably inappropriate intergenerational wisdom.”Tara Moss, author of The Fictional Woman and Speaking Out“Law School is part sex-ed, part life-coaching, part-comedy double act. Benjamin Law and his mother Jenny are not always the most wise (or appropriate) of agony aunts, but they’re easily the most honest, heart-warming and ... Read more

$6.41 USD

“Warning: this book contains a back-to-back feast of frank, funny and adorably inappropriate intergenerational wisdom.”Tara Moss, author of The Fictional Woman and Speaking Out“Law School is part sex-ed, part life-coaching, part-comedy double act. Benjamin Law and his mother Jenny are not always the most wise (or appropriate) of agony aunts, but they’re easily the most honest, heart-warming and
... Read more
The Book That Made Me

A Collection of 32 Personal Stories

by Randa Abdel-Fattah, Bernard Beckett, Cathy Cassidy, Felicity Castagna, Queenie Chan, Kate Constable, Rachael Craw, Alison Croggon, Cath Crowley, Ted Dawe, Ursula Dubosarsky, Simon French, Mandy Hager, Simmone Howell, Catherine Johnson, Will Kostakis, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Benjamin Law, Julia Lawrinson, Sue Lawson, Brigid Lowry, Emily Maguire, Catherine Mayo, Sue McPherson, Jaclyn Moriarty, Mal Peet, James Roy, Shaun Tan, Jared Thomas, Fiona Wood, Markus Zusak ...

A collection of 32 personal stories.The Book That Made Me is a celebration of the books that influenced some of the most acclaimed authors from Australia and the world. Edited by Judith Ridge, it features non-fiction stories from 32 inspiring and award-winning authors including Markus Zusak, Jaclyn Moriarty, Shaun Tan, Mal Peet, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Simon French, Alison Croggon, Fiona Wood, ... Read more

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A collection of 32 personal stories.The Book That Made Me is a celebration of the books that influenced some of the most acclaimed authors from Australia and the world. Edited by Judith Ridge, it features non-fiction stories from 32 inspiring and award-winning authors including Markus Zusak, Jaclyn Moriarty, Shaun Tan, Mal Peet, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Simon French, Alison Croggon, Fiona Wood,
... Read more
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Growing Up Queer in Australia

by Benjamin Law ...

Narrated by Benjamin Law, Nayuka Gorrie, Quinn Eades, Wendy Bos ...

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13 hours 12 min

I marked the day in my adolescent diary with a single blank page; The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further; I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation; I was thirty-eight and figured it was time to come out to her; Even now, I sometimes think that I don’t know my own desire.Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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I marked the day in my adolescent diary with a single blank page; The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further; I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation; I was thirty-eight and figured it was time to come out to her; Even now, I sometimes think that I don’t know my own desire.Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, Growing
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Growing Up African in Australia

by Maxine Beneba Clarke ...

Narrated by Ahmed Yussuf, Candy Bowers, Faustina Agolley, Magan Magan, Manal Younus, Muma Doesa, Santilla Chingaipe, Tariro Mavondo, Thuso Lekwape, Rebekha Robertson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

Learning to kick a football in a suburban schoolyard. Finding your feet as a young black dancer. Discovering your grandfather’s poetry. Meeting Nelson Mandela at your local church. Facing racism from those who should protect you. Dreading a visit to the hairdresser. House-hopping across the suburbs. Being too black. Not being black enough. Singing to find your soul, and then losing yourself ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Learning to kick a football in a suburban schoolyard. Finding your feet as a young black dancer. Discovering your grandfather’s poetry. Meeting Nelson Mandela at your local church. Facing racism from those who should protect you. Dreading a visit to the hairdresser. House-hopping across the suburbs. Being too black. Not being black enough. Singing to find your soul, and then losing yourself
... Read more

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