Gillian Terzis

In the days leading up to April 29, my social media feeds were dominated by scores of doleful messages imploring Indonesian President Joko Widodo to extend clemency to the condemned Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Some held candlelight vigils and uploaded them to Instagram. Others chose to use a memespiration-like graphic with […]

For me, 2004 was marked by a constellation of new experiences. Some were pleasant; others were not. I’d started my first year at university, which was a relief after 13 years of single-sex schooling. Social jockeying, coded girl-speak, an obsession with spray tans and netball: I was not made for that milieu. Instead, I pinned […]

Recently Anonymous, a decentralised collective of hackers and activists, has been everywhere – getting headlines for crashing the websites of governments and corporations alike – but also nowhere. Like an insouciant wart on the foot of institutional power, Anonymous can be irritating, occasionally painful and primed for repeat visits. Their origins are similarly dubious. But […]