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Alecia Simmonds

Alecia Simmonds is an interdisciplinary scholar in law and history at the University of Technology Sydney and New York University – Sydney. She is the author of the award-winning book Wild Man (Affirm Press) and her book Courting: A History of Love and Law in Australia (Black Inc/La Trobe Press) will be published in 2021. She has also written for Fairfax Digital, Gourmet Traveller and the Australian Book Review. icon

Bleached Atmospheres of Dread

By Alecia Simmonds

Myles McRae MLA was a monster of male entitlement. Any person who read the Australian newspapers in the year 1891 would have thought so. Six feet tall ...

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