Archive - The Spencer Street End

Learning from the bairn

When your kids suddenly know more than you

Jun 20 •

Jacinta Parsons

Gentle Bearings of Truth

Unveiling stories with quiet reverence

Jun 13 •

The Age of Denial

What will you do?

Jun 7 •

Jacinta Parsons

May 2025

Control is the Oldest Reflex

From custody to culture to the page, the state still decides who gets to speak, survive, and be seen - even during reconciliation week.

May 30 •

A sponge cake that will change your view of the world

(If you’re just here for the recipe - skip to the bottom of the page! But subscribe to this substack goddamn it)

May 17 •

Jacinta Parsons

Canterbury Tales

Recollections of election night from an outsider who never knows where to stand.

May 10 •

I can't find my glasses

How much do we really see anyway?.

May 2 •

Jacinta Parsons

April 2025

The Ecosystem of Hate

How the booing of the Welcome to Country at the shrine was inevitable in the current climate

Apr 25 •

Diary of a stay-at-home, long weekend, gal.

How to holiday at home.

Apr 19 •

Jacinta Parsons

The Voice Inside: Writing As Homecoming

Thanks for the typos mate

Apr 11 •

With every season, turn, turn, turn.

I’m gearing up, to wind back.The Spencer Street End is a reader-supported publication.

Apr 4 •

Jacinta Parsons

March 2025

Letters Against Silence

William Cooper and Aboriginal Political Resistance in Footscray

Mar 29 •

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