Blog of Dr Darryl Sellwood

Provocative, disruptive and sometimes subversive — inventor of the Bummunicator!

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  • This site has been cited twice in year

    I am pretty slack with writing blog posts. My last post was at the beginning of the year and now it’s April! The past week I was thinking I should to start writing short blog entries, yet having to worry about heading also a blog, you feel you have to write something more than one…

  • New Year – Clear goal! Complete a PhD thesis!

    A New Year.! Yet a very clear goal! A look back over some of my blog entries I noticed I started my PhD journey by writing that I would write about it on the way through. Well, I probably have not achieved this as much as I would have hoped. The entries have been sporadic…

  • Exploring lived experiences through narratives: Sarah Polley’s “Stories We Tell” (2013)

    This past week I have started to write the methodology chapter of my thesis again. It has been a document that I have been throwing stuffed into from other pieces I have wrote along the way, such as ethics applications and presentations, but now it is time to develop it into a chapter. A part…

  • The Hatred towards the article “Why I Masturbate my profoundly disabled son”

    Today I was scrolling through my Facebook feed when this article come up and I thought it would be an interesting read, given the topic of my PhD. As the article states, we whom have disabilities  generally receive assistance to met our the physical, emotional and intellectual needs, yet when it comes to our sexual…

  • A warm morning random thoughts

    This rather warm October morning I awake to the sounds of the morning before sunrise. Sounds that I would usually sleep through. Birds singing their songs. The movements of what I thought was my dog or was just a piece of plastic in the wind. Lying in bed with random thoughts going through my mind.…