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.


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Bleached Atmospheres of Dread

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 …