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Aimee is a writer and critic from Kaurna yerta / Adelaide.

She's the Small Screens editor at The Big Issue, and her work appears in Little White Lies, The Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Overland, Meanjin and more.

Here are some pieces she's real proud of:

The Guardian • 19th March 2019

As a social outcast the defiant weirdness of the Muppets gave me comfort

Nothing sparks more joy than seeing Kermit ride a bike.

The Lifted Brow • 18th March 2019

TheSerialEavesdropper Has Logged On: Toward An Aural Equivalent Of The Gaze

There are sundry forms of seeing and being seen. Are there as many ways to hear and be heard?

Overland literary journal • 21st February 2019

Work Your Cares Away: Revisiting Fraggle Rock

Behind its hyper-colour façade, Fraggle Rock offers deep commentary on class, labour, environmentalism and Jim Henson’s quest for world peace.

The Lifted Brow • 27th July 2017

Making A Murderino: A Feminist Dissection of True Crime

Do women turn to true crime to steel ourselves against future victimisation? Or do we live in fear thanks to the narratives we impute?

Kill Your Darlings • 9th February 2017

Where Dreams are Found and Lost: Bruce Springsteen’s Australia

Aimee Knight explores the social, cultural and economic factors that connect Bruce Springsteen's music with fans around the world.

The Sydney Morning Herald • 25th March 2017

How Ellie Kammer is channelling her battle with endometriosis into confronting art

"Aggressive, moody, demanding: she's a woman on her period in its worst phase," says Ellie of her chronic illness.

The Lifted Brow • 2nd March 2017

Down Where It’s Wetter: Mermaids, Menstruation, and Marine Ecology

"Maybe he’s right. Maybe there is something the matter with me. I just don’t see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad."

Broadly • 23rd November 2016

The Space Archaeologist Studying the Junk Humans Leave Throughout the Cosmos

"People think of space as this empty place, but there's all this human material in it."