Bøger af Benjamin Law

Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humourist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions. Why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? Will his childhood dreams of Home and Away stardom come to nothing? What are his chances of finding love?In this updated edition with a new chapter, Benjamin Law fills us in on his family's antics from the past decade. 'Benjamin Law manages to be scatagogical, hilarious and heartbreaking all at the same time. Every sentence fizzes like an exploding fireball of energy.'-Alice Pung'A vivid, gorgeously garish, Technicolour portrait of a family. It's impossible not to let oneself go along for the ride and emerge at the book's end enlightened, touched, thrilling with laughter.'-Marieke Hardy'The eccentric, clever and beautifully resonant The Family Law. It's sharply written, brilliantly observed and infused with an authenticity that makes it compelling.' -Saturday Age'Very funny...you may find yourself at times almost barking with laughter' -the Monthly'Law is a writer of great wit and warmth who combines apparently artless and effortless comedian's patter with a high level of technical skill.' -Sydney Morning Herald'Simultaneously weird and instantly recognisable, the Laws are an Australian family it's well worth getting to know' -The Enthusiast'Wonderful. Everyone should run to their nearest bookshop and buy a copy.' -Defamer'An addictive read.' -Courier-Mail

Are Australian schools safe? And if they're not, what happens when kids are caught in a bleak collision between ill-equipped teachers and a confected scandal? In 2016, the Safe Schools program became the focus of an ideological firestorm. In Moral Panic 101, Benjamin Law explores how and why this happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping account of schools today, sexuality, teenagers, new ideas of gender fluidity, media scandal and mental health.In this timely essay, Law also looks at the new face of homophobia in Australia, and the long battle for equality and acceptance. Investigating bullying of the vulnerable young, he brings to light hidden worlds, in an essay notable for its humane clarity."To read every article the Australian has published on Safe Schools is to induce nausea. This isn't even a comment on the content, just the sheer volume … And yet, across this entire period, the Australian - self-appointed guardian of the safety of children - spoke to not a single school-aged LGBTIQ youth. Not even one. Later, queer teenagers who followed the Safe Schools saga told me the dynamic felt familiar. At school, it's known as bullying. In journalism, it's called a beat-up." -Benjamin Law, Moral Panic 101

"Queer" is a lens through which the world can be viewed differently " Compiled by celebrated author and journalist Benjamin Law, 'Growing Up Queer in Australia' assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity. Spanning diverse places, eras, genders, ethnicities and experiences, these are the stories of growing up queer in Australia. For better or worse, sooner or later, life conspires to reveal you to yourself, and this is growing up. "I marked the day in my adolescent diary with a single blank page". "The mantle of 'queer migrant' compelled me to keep going - to go further." "I never 'came out' to my parents, I felt I owed them no explanation." "I was thirty-eight and figured it was time to come out to her." "All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints." "No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment." "I became acutely aware of the parts of myself that were unpalatable to queers who grew up in the city." "My queerness was born in a hot dry land that was never ceded." "Even now, I sometimes think that I don't know my own desire."

Celebrated writer Benjamin Law is one of Australia's brightest literary stars. For his hysterically funny and moving stage premiere, Law employs his effortless self-deprecating wit to spark joy in the clutter and find truth in those crazy moments that bring families closer together.