Maxine Beneba Clarke

@slamup

I try to write beautifully, about ugly things. Fiction collection 'Foreign Soil' Memoir 'The Hate Race' (Pub: Hachette AUS&NZ, Corsair UK, 37Ink US).

Melbourne, Victoria
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Joined October 2009
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    Jul 3

    This is the dreamiest first review ever, Thanks, !

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Last time I performed/prepped Howl I *also* had the flu & wz deliriously doped on Codral. Ginsberg is totally messing w me from the grave.

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  3. 10 hours ago

    Reporter: You're one of the greatest female athletes of all time. Serena: I prefer the words ‘one of the greatest athletes of all time.

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  4. Jul 5

    Free speech gives no excuse for hate speech - my comment for ICYMI

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  5. 5 hours ago

    White authors writing articles about the 'understandable response' of Hansonism. 🙄😲😡☠💣🔫

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  6. 6 hours ago

    U *could* walk the street hunting imaginary cartoon creatures. OR u could join a protest so black ppl cn walk the street w.out getting shot.

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  7. 6 hours ago

    Every day, my kids see kids like them dead on beaches /locked in death camps /shot on sight / starving. & we ask how radicalisation happens

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  8. 6 hours ago

    'just last year, another young black man wz disappeared'

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  9. 8 hours ago

    "I can't breathe" chant protesters who took over exit ramp in San Francisco

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  11. 7 hours ago

    Carrying The World.

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  12. 18 hours ago

    you can have aaallll my coins - just give me a date. that's all i ask

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  13. 15 hours ago

    Serena Williams recites Maya Angelou's "Still I Rise" before her historic win and it's EVERYTHING!

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  14. Jul 8

    More black people were killed by US police in 2015 than were lynched in the worst year of Jim Crow via

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  15. Jul 8

    Just finished this extraordinary book. I don't have the words yet to express how truly…

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  16. Jul 8

    10: This is serious, I might b about to die! Me: Do you know what 'hypochondria' means? 10: I have it, don't I? Is it a disease? Am I dying?

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  17. Jul 8

    I don't think I'll publish any more books because The Hate Race is Peak Title, there's nothing to name them.

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  18. Jul 7

    Disappointed not one Black person on the panel to talk about on

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  19. Jul 7

    Final copy just landed! What a stunner - the incredibly talented Allison Colpoys does it again.

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  20. Jul 6

    Boxes all round me - weary - prep for moving house - then a drawing about Pauline merges out of my being

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