If you believe the pundits, human beings are facing one of the most challenging moments in our collective history, and I’m not buying it! They think that we are suddenly living in a Volatile, Unstable, Complex and Ambiguous world. But it didn’t take long for them to be bored with that, so they doubled down with two D’s and said we are also Diverse and Dynamic, or VUCA(DD). Really?

You know what really grinds my gears? Burns my biscuit? Rustles my Jimmies? Flips my pancake and jams my jelly? Cultural competency training! There, I said it! And I’m not gonna take it back! You simply cannot have mandatory training without a module on cultural competency.

Cancel culture makes me nervous, mostly because it is hard to tell the myth from reality. But what is “Cancel Culture” and what does it actually mean to get cancelled? More importantly, what happens when we can no longer disagree?

So you have heard me talk before about how I struggled growing up, trying to work out how to be a brown person in a very white 1980s Australia, and trying to work out how to be a not-so-masculine man in a hyper-masculine world.

I don’t think I’m alone in feeling out of place…

Masculinity has copped a bad wrap of late. While it's not entirely undeserved, ‘toxic masculinity’ is often what people are thinking about in these situations, and just like toxic metals and toxic chemicals, toxic attitudes are dangerous.

I recently gave a presentation during a 16 Days of Activism event and was asked a very interesting question: What strategies do you find effective in challenging popular voices like Andrew Tate and the views they espouse (especially when often these voices have a 'mainline' to kids through TikTok or YouTube)?

I actually get asked questions like this a lot. This is my response…

It’s Easter Sunday and there is talk of fathers and sons, of suffering and forgiveness, of Gods and bunnies and the magic of easter eggs appearing in the middle of the night. So how do i use this to help me make sense of the world as it is today?