Felix Herbener

Sorry to break the fourth wall on this day of solidarity. But what LGBTIQ+ community? Where is this community? At UTAS during my BA I was the only one interested in a queer club. Seriously, it was just me and a guidance counselor sitting in a room. The elected head of the queer club never showed up. I met one gay guy at uni, and he was a self confessed cannibal wannabe. My experience of casual gay sex has made me have to harden my heart to NSA (no love/loveless) sex. My relationships last an hour or two. An overnight stay is as close to commitment and monogamy that I get. I can't even describe the heartbreaking soul aching loneliness of looking at other men's selfies on gay dating apps, night after night, month after month, and never meeting a guy to spend time with. If I cook for a man on a date it's like I'm doing something wrong. Is sharing a meal so strange? I'm not degrading the concept of IDAHOT. But as a Christian I think there is some problem with human natu...

An Aboriginal woman tried to stab me with a syringe and called me a nazi for being white. It was totally unprovoked, I was just sitting there. Another time late at night I got threatened with stabbing with needles of dog blood and being infected with aids. I am the most left wing person I know, but go to an Aboriginal community and you may find yourself unwelcome and unwanted. Text book studies of structural disadvantages and historical murders and current Aboriginal incarceration rates do not describe or articulate the feelings of Aboriginal people towards Australians. The latter is probably too unpalatable for study. And with Australia's high immigration and foreign work force, how many people are actually white anyway anymore? The idea of white privilege seems outdated in a neoliberal globalised economy. And now we are moving into a post-neoliberal New World Order with greenwashed ecofascism and no escape from electronic surveillance. The present moment excludes not just the aut...

Quetzalcoatl's Eyes II F#*k You

VEGAN EXTREMISTS F#*K OFF I can't afford Ugg boots. Not being allowed to drink milk and eat eggs without being shamed is insane. Wearing a rabbit fur and a duck down jacket how ridiculous! As if anyone does that. And I already bought a pink Mother's Day card for my mum. I'm with the workers and the poor, but living, and honestly trying to support local and seasonal produce. Recycling every scrap. Because we don't have money for Ugg boots or Cruise holidays or flights overseas. Or any money to waste at all. And milk money and the eggs and bacon we buy comes from the meagre sum we have to live on. And we are not bad people because we can't afford highly processed vegan food alternatives. I'm happy. In future people may be forced to eat lab grown meat and insect protein. But I don't want to live to see that. I don't want to live in that hell. We are all causing the Anthropocene. But we can only do so much in our lives to stop it. I won't...