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Julia Rose Bąk

Julia Rose Bąk is a queer, Māori-Polish writer and organiser based between Whadjuk Noongar and Wurundjeri land. Their work touches on themes such as care, access, collective healing and collective liberation, as well as their experience growing up with chronic illness. Julia was a recipient of a 2022 Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, and their work can be read in Overland, Bitch, Archer, and others.

An Anatomy of Romance

Tomorrow I will learn that my body is romantic. Romantic as in rounded, buxom; romantic as in assumed to billow. Like Rose, lounging gingerly in her stateroom, tousled curls lolling on open shoulders. Like Rose, holding her lover’s gaze much …

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