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Articles:

Articles

Recipes and Refuge

Megan Anderson
A new recipe book from Chris Nguyen depoliticises the act of seeking refuge.
Articles

Reality is a Virtue: Oculus and the Rift in Virtual Reality Gaming

Rafael S. W.
Articles

Suspended Animation Inc.

Rafael S.W.
Articles

Female Monsters, a Roman Goddess and Darwin: On Womanhood and Body When You Have Cancer

Articles

Top Surgery: a Gift from My Dead Brother

Bridie Mills on conventional masculinity, undergoing top surgery and his brother's gift from the grave.
Articles

Talking to a Terror Way Beyond Falling

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Stories and Poems:

MILLENNIAL PINK

Ladies' Day

The second comic in our new Millennial Pink series by Emma Jensen takes us on an unfortunate trip to the races.
Stories & Poems

Better Left Unsaid

Mesh Tennakoon
Stories & Poems

Election

Una Cruickshank
Comics

Sir Tramsalot

GDS#40, Listen

The Singers

Eleanor Jackson
Spoken word by Eleanor Jackson, with animation by Maeve Baker.
GDS#38, Stories & Poems

Memphis

On Writing:

On Writing

Pitch Perfect: Or, How to Make Your Manuscript Shine

Before you send off that manuscript, read this guide first. By Rebecca Slater.
On Writing

Editing from the Country

Rhys Tate
On Writing

Locked in Limbo: What Paid Parental Leave Means for Freelancers

Mandy Lee
On Writing

The Art of Rejection

Adam Ford
On Writing

The Meditations Part III: Rafael SW on 'Deep Throat Jesus'

Rafael SW
The Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to the thirty-third issue of Going Down Swinging. This reflection comes from Rafael SW on his story...
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Astrid L'Orange

Adam Ford

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

Patrick Lenton
One thing I did wonder when reading this is what will the world learn from Gilmore Girls thousands of years into the future?
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Backlash by Susan Faludi

Caroline Tapper
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Stephen Jones
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Christine by Stephen King

Patrick Lenton
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Patrick Lenton
The harsh, joyless critic who lives inside me put down Huckleberry Finn and thought, ‘more like the NOT-adventures of Huckleberry Finn’
The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Patrick Lenton