About me
Szego Unplugged is a place of robust debate of the kind you’re unlikely to find in the mainstream press. I’m an author, journalist and columnist with eclectic interests; left-leaning but wary of identity politics.
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One of the hardest topics at the moment, in my hometown of Melbourne and throughout the West, is gender identity politics— the trans debate. The Age commissioned me to write a story on youth gender transition and then refused to run it. The piece (with some minor updates and tweaks) is Part One of a series called A Question of Transition.
I also write about gender identity politics more broadly— without the copy being rendered unreadable by a committee of woke journalists redacting words they deem incendiary, such as “male”. And I’m writing, or will be writing, about all the other themes I’ve been banging on about for a quarter of a century: Australia’s disgracefully inequitable education system, politics, more identity politics, sexual politics, international politics, Brutalist architecture, and me, a wondering Jew.
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