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Van Badham
Van Badham is a theatre-maker and author of QAnon And On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. An occasional broadcaster, critic and trade union feminist, she writes columns for the Guardian and lives in Melbourne.
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Learn the offside rule, knit a scarf, and above all remember FOOTBALL IS LIFE
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To see the faces of young fans is to remember the euphorias of my own girlhood that, sadly, never got to include howling at professional women’s football
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The disturbing underfunding of public schools hurts education and drives teachers way. Governments have to do better
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For all the talk about being ‘extremely online’, new technology still wields power over us
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To have our experience retried near-daily in the kangaroo courts of leaks, political expedience and sloppy journalism looks nothing like justice
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Alleviate supermarket blues by performing a funky dance in the canned veg section
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Women have found a way to channel a flagrant, public up-yours to the culture of gender policing that grows more dangerous by the day
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The allure of digital relationships that can be curated and controlled comes at the expense of mutual vulnerability
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With the death of Australia’s patron of ‘the unloved and unlovely’, who remains as the public face of cultural Catholicism?
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The ban by a local surf club echoes the energy of present censorship campaigns being run by agenda-ridden moralisers in Australia and the US
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It’s not a failure of collective willpower that’s jeopardising our health, but a diet of bad food that’s culturally familiar, low in nutrition and super available
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As the domain of human potential is staked by the powerful older, it’s not unreasonable to imagine beauty standards may one day shift too
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The New Zealand prime minister’s bold and resolute leadership neutralised hoary stereotypes that insisted female power is soft or weak
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From Colorado Springs to China, Ukraine to Afghanistan, Iran to Wieambilla, lessons in fearlessness and fortitude serve to inspire us all
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I’m ready to love the pumpkin, change out of my regular clothes and laugh at our inescapable mortality
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My mother epitomises cancer ward optimism – and it shines amid all the world’s ills
‘Disinformania’ has taken over the internet - can ‘no’ voice opportunists maintain control of an unleashed far right flank?