Anna Snoekstra

2 months ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Anna Snoekstra

It’s a special experience to be allowed into a theatre rehearsal space. The play is not yet formed, but its elements are scattered around the room. Multiple versions of Joanna Murray-Smith’s script Honour lie on a scratched pine table among water glasses, a plunger of cold coffee dregs and a wrapper-filled box of Roses chocolates. On the wall behind the table is the timeline of the play, printed out on white A4 paper and stuck up with yellow tape.

Oct 11, 2024 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Anna Snoekstra

I meet Reko Rennie at Marios on Brunswick Street in the middle of the afternoon. Tall and broad in a long black coat, chunky gold rings on his fingers, Rennie possesses the indefinable gravitas of supremely talented people. Passionate and disarmingly honest, he quickly feels like an old friend. We sip negronis as the late lunch Fitzroy crowd dissolves into pre-dinner quiet and he tells me about his life.

Jun 16, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Anna Snoekstra

Jack Arnett was digging in a fence post when he saw it. A flash of red through the waving wheat grass. He tucked his pants into his boots and waded through the dry. As he got closer he saw that the object was an old esky and that the grass was flattened in a metre-wide circle around it. He wasn’t sure what could cause an indentation like that: the stalks all snapped at right angles against the earth. The esky itself was large and red with a white trim.

Jun 2, 2023 | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Anna Snoekstra

The day is just turning as I make my way through Fitzroy Gardens to meet musician Genevieve Lacey. Unwrapping my woollen scarf as I walk, I spot her standing by our meeting place: the dolphin fountain. She fits right in next to the fairytale statues. She’s a petite woman, saddled with bags for her upcoming rehearsal, her red hair glowing in the burgeoning sunshine, her face opening into a warm smile when she sees me.

May 15, 2023 | audible.com | Alison Bechdel |Madeleine George |Rachel Lacey |Anna Snoekstra

Before lesbian TikTok, before The L Word, before Ellen, there was Dykes to Watch Out For, Alison Bechdel’s seminal comic-strip sensation about the lives and loves of one tight-knit dyke community that was a fixture in gay papers across America for 25 years. Meet our heroine, Mo. She’s every dyke’s dream—or so she’s been told by her kind and supportive friends.