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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 pop culture columnist at The Lifted Brow.

Her work appears in Little White Lies, The Guardian, Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Meanjin and more.

Here are some pieces she's real proud of:

Kill Your Darlings • 17th June 2019

Big Henson Energy: The Ridiculous Optimism of The Muppets

The corny, wholesome humour of the Muppets seem easy to mock in 2019 – yet recent ‘edgy’ parodies have fallen flat. What is it about Jim Henson’s outlook that has proven so resistant to cynicism?

The Lifted Brow • 26th June 2019

Excerpt: 'Bring Your Furby to Work Day'

On 13 January 1999, the United States’ National Security Agency banned its employees from bringing Furbys to work. What does this reveal about technophobia and surveillance capitalism?

Kill Your Darlings • 29th August 2019

An Oral History of the Gobbledok

From a cheap one-off character to a touchstone of millennial Australian culture, the Gobbledok is one of the strangest brand mascots to grace Australian screens.

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?

The Contributor • 17th July 2019

Meet the first muppet to be portrayed as homeless

Nashville street paper The Contributor syndicated this cover story from The Big Issue (AU).

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.

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.