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Desperately Seeking … agency, dancing and not giving a f*ck at 50+

I confess, I’m bored with GenX male writers retrospectives on artists and albums that were seminal for teenage-me. I always enjoy reading…

6 min readApr 10, 2024

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Desperately Seeking … agency, dancing and not giving a f*ck at 50+

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Leanne de Souza

No Longer Abused

For 185 years the skeleton of Joan Wytte “The Fighting Fairy Woman of Bodmin” was an object of derision, ridicule, and fascination.

6 min readMar 27, 2024

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No Longer Abused

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Leanne de Souza

Walk On

Walking on Minjerribah, to the summit of Bippo Penbean — thousands of steps under a pre dawn sky. A sequence of colours. Blackberry…

4 min readFeb 21, 2023

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FILM REVIEW | Three Chords and The Truth

Three Chords and the Truth uses the power of the big screen to simultaneously reveal and retain the magic, hard work, resilience and…

2 min readNov 11, 2022

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FILM REVIEW | Three Chords and The Truth

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Leanne de Souza

PERSONAL STATEMENT

I am a survivor of 30+ years working in the Australian music industry.

3 min readAug 31, 2022

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PERSONAL STATEMENT

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Leanne de Souza

INDEX A — an analogue listening diary of a teenage girl (Brisbane, 1986)

A mass produced aqua, hard board cover featuring a proud gold inscription ‘INDEX’ is rediscovered. Blank, now yellowing, lined pages are…

5 min readAug 14, 2022

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INDEX A — an analogue listening diary of a teenage girl (Brisbane, 1986)

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Leanne de Souza

MORS JANUA VITAE “Death is the Door of Life” — an Adoption Genealogy Story

Adoption was prevalent in Australia & NZ in the late 1960s and early 1970s and peaked in 1971–1972. I am one of 10,000 babies ‘given up’…

10 min readMay 8, 2022

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MORS JANUA VITAE “Death is the Door of Life” — an Adoption Genealogy Story

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Queensland Music #IWD2022

Climate change, war in Europe, death of a ‘legendary’ cricket lad, the final year of a plague (we hope).

5 min readMar 6, 2022

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Queensland Music #IWD2022

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Be a Conscious Consumer of Music

This blog piece is the essence of a keynote presentation from the inaugural Byron Music Festival, Industry Conference on Sunday 20 June…

9 min readAug 9, 2021

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Be a Conscious Consumer of Music

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Neutrality

It’s a dark moon weekend and it feels like a dangerous time for many in the music industry.

3 min readAug 8, 2021

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Neutrality

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Leanne de Souza

Leanne de Souza

music, books, conversation, alchemy, feminism, justice ; in transition to a creative life > writer ; I live on unceded Turrbul country.

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