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Aimee is a writer and critic on Kaurna land.

She's the Small Screens editor at The Big Issue, and her work appears in Little White Lies, Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin and more. She's currently writing a narrative nonfiction book about women and true crime.

Here are some pieces she's real proud of:

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."

Little White Lies • 7th September 2017

Review: The Work

This essential, moving documentary challenges the idea of prison as a breeding ground for machismo and violence.

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."