Melbourne’s west may be considered out of the way to some, but it’s home to many of the city’s best kept food secrets. Footscray is the vibrant, multicultural gateway for these untapped culinary delights, leading the way with its authentic cuisines, under-the-radar menus, and hidden live music venues.

While it’s possibly most well-known for the best banh mi in Melbourne, Footscray also houses plenty of other options. Where the sun sets you’ll also find some of the best bars of 2022 waiting for

I couldn’t wait for the Australian paperback release date of this highly anticipated 2021 baby, so I read it as soon as humanly possible on my trusty mini instead.

A wonderfully complex novel that at times felt closer to a memoir. While this book follows a narrative story line, it reads more like an in-depth character study of its two and a half leads as Peters explores motherhood, parenting, femininity and masculinity, all through the eyes of her queer characters. This book took us deep, deep into the lives of Reese, a trans woman, her ex, Ames, who has detransitioned, and Katrina, the woman that Ames has unexpectedly gotten pregnant. If that sounds messy, it is - in the best possible way. I loved how much I learnt from this book, and how much it made me consider things that I’d not given much thought to in the past. Peters’s insights into love, sex and gender are illuminating, witty and daring. While at times I found the writing a little dense and wanted the story to move forwards, I was intrigued by every aside we were taken down.

The title is genius and I love this quote from Peters, from her interview with Vulture:

“The comma is a knife’s edge. If you could just find your way to having a baby and finding motherhood, you would be legitimate, or if you could just figure out how to live as a man and detransition, you’d be okay,” she said. “The hard part is you’re stuck. That was the split in my psyche for a long time.”

A thoroughly enjoyable and devastating book that chronicles the stormy life of Martha, a young woman battling a mysterious mental illness.

This book hadn't come to my attention until a friend lent it to me, and my excitement was immediately aroused by the Fleabag comparison on the front cover (the novel equivalent to clickbait). I fell in love with Martha, our unreliable narrator, through her quirky micro-observations of daily life and her self-confessed "attention seeking punctuation". While it may feel like not much happens within the pages of this book, everything happens. We begin at the end and the novel weaves its way through time until you forget where you started - and when you do remember, you hope in vain that it will end differently. Martha's fierce love for her sister coupled with Mason's expert anti-unfolding of an enduring love story will keep you hooked.

This is a book that observes the inner mind of someone who has been tossed about by the medical system, thrown from one medication to another but never quite landing on the right one. Mason strikes the right balance of funny and feeling, and while the ending may not be entirely uplifting, it's satisfying and worthy of its Waller-Bridge comparison. Sorrow and Bliss feels like the perfect title - the grief I felt for the characters carefully crept up on me and left me thinking long after I'd put it down.

What are microplastics and what do they have to do with my clothes? Posted by LETE ACTIVE on October 01, 2021

For most of us, microplastics are a bit of a thing of mystery. Aren’t they just the tiny beads of plastic found in some face scrubs, or what you unwittingly end up swallowing if you keep drinking out of same plastic bottle weeks on end? Nope. Turns out, microplastics play a much larger role in our lives than we think they do. They’ve been discovered in pretty much everything we eat and

With social media algorithms advancing every other day, it can be hard to ensure your feed is filled with the messaging that you want to see. With paid promotions from tacky brands to hashtags filled with clickbait, curating an aesthetic and mentally healthy feed on your socials isn’t quite what it was in the good old days.

If you’re looking for some inspiration on zero waste living, sustainable styling choices, or which ethical brands you should be taking note of, these are the people who can

Listen up, shoppers. You want to know more about sustainable fashion? You’ve come to the right place. If you’ve made it this far, you might already be pretty clued in on the topic – or, you may be relatively new to the area. Either way, we’ve gathered some pointers to give you an overall guide on some of the things to keep in mind when pivoting towards a better wardrobe that’s healthier for the planet.

Firstly, what IS sustainable fashion? Simply put, it’s clothing that’s designed, manufactured

If you’re anything like me, you may have found yourself picking up a new book in the last twelve months and hoping it will elicit even a glimmer of the things you felt when you discovered the wonder that is Sally Rooney’s writing. Rooney’s first two novels have become instant touchstones for readers across the globe; Normal People encapsulates the unvoiced thoughts of any adrift twenty-something so perfectly it’s hard not to defer to it when discussing other books – or even just life. It was suc