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Beau Newham
Beau Newham

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Mar 19

Lost in a legacy

It’s a Monday evening and there is a small crowd gathered in Melbourne for the official launch of a brand-new health service called Asianline. The initiative is deceptively simple: a phone, staffed by volunteers, can be called to access sexual health information in multiple Asian languages. If the event is…

HIV

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Lost in a legacy
Lost in a legacy
HIV

6 min read


Dec 28, 2020

The long return home

In the final weeks of February, my housemates and I were stocking supplies in our house for what we assumed would be a shaky few months in Denpasar. Bali has been here before — not in the form of a sudden pandemic but over the last few decades there have…

Covid-19

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The long return home
The long return home
Covid-19

5 min read


Mar 14, 2019

Impossible & Inevitable

HIV for me has always felt simultaneously impossible and inevitable. Impossible, because like so many of us who are young and privileged with good health, we feel invincible. We are reckless and adventurous with our bodies. We test them again and again, and perhaps come out bruised but none the…

HIV

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Impossible & Inevitable
Impossible & Inevitable
HIV

8 min read


Feb 13, 2019

When home is an ashtray

Growing up without a family home means that your sense of home becomes invested in things both smaller and larger than a house. Smaller; Mundane objects become the things that you pin your sense of home up with. Their familiarity a constant in a sea of generic suburban homes. A…

Identity

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When home is an ashtray
When home is an ashtray
Identity

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Feb 1, 2018

Notes from the working class?

When someone asks me about being from a working-class family, or about growing up in Campbelltown specifically, I often recite a story about visiting a careers advisor in the final year of high school. The high school itself is in an undesirable part of Sydney so the staff, especially the…

Education

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Notes from the working class?
Notes from the working class?
Education

9 min read


Feb 1, 2018

I don’t have HIV, but it has shaped my life

I had just come out. I was 17 and I was away on a holiday with my dad and my sister. My Dad was trying his hardest to connect. I was a petulant teenager shying away from the awkwardness of intimacy. The conversation jammed. We were left without words and…

HIV

3 min read

I don’t have HIV, but it has shaped my life
I don’t have HIV, but it has shaped my life
HIV

3 min read


Feb 1, 2018

Jakarta; or why is it so easy to cry on planes?

I’ve left many cities over the past few years, and every time I do, it isn’t until my plane takes to the air that the weight of leaving descends upon me. You would think it would grow easier with frequency, but thankfully feelings aren’t like TV shows. They don’t wear…

Travel

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Jakarta; or why is it so easy to cry on planes?
Jakarta; or why is it so easy to cry on planes?
Travel

5 min read


Feb 6, 2017

Bule Sombong

When moving to a new city, buoyed by the enthusiasm and energy of change, I push myself to meet as many people as possible. So, a year ago, when I was brand new to Jakarta I was trawling the various social media/dating apps for interesting faces, witty taglines and sincere…

Gay

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Bule Sombong
Bule Sombong
Gay

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Beau Newham

Beau Newham

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Beau Newham is a writer, development worker and queer activist based in Melbourne on Kulin Nation lands.

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