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Jacci Pillar

Tips for Difficult Dx Conversations

So I just got some bad medical news and I have some intense stuff to go through before I know the full damage or what to expect. But not…

4 min readJun 10, 2021

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Jacci Pillar

Fear shouldn’t always be feared.

Being back on stage for Midsumma Festival was awesome — particularly as I faced one of my biggest, life long fears by doing so. That fear…

4 min readMay 4, 2021

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Fear shouldn’t always be feared.

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Jacci Pillar

Wtf is “Millionaires for Morrison?”

Millionaires for Morrison is an Australian grassroots political activist comedy group based upon the US open source project Billionaires…

3 min readOct 13, 2020

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Wtf is “Millionaires for Morrison?”

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Jacci Pillar

The Bride’s Tears

I was married once, for 12 long years. It’s a chapter in my life I talk about privately, mostly. And my marriage, at one point ended up in…

6 min readOct 11, 2020

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Jacci Pillar

What’s Your Livelihood?

There are questions about what we would all like to see change post COVID-19. I’d like to see a conscious change in the language and scope…

4 min readJul 20, 2020

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What’s Your Livelihood?

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Jacci Pillar

Bronwin Budget-Slap, Satire and Me.

As an autistic comedian I am often met with people talking about how I am not supposed to understand jokes.

5 min readJul 19, 2020

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Image: My character Bronwin Budget-slap, the top of her head, a large blonde beehive with a plastic helicopter stuck in it.

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Jacci Pillar

Intersectional Curatorial Hopes for Community Arts Production

When the comedy variety showcase “ Tickets on Myself” was produced for Melbourne Fringe 2019 — a central idea of the show was…

4 min readJun 20, 2020

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Jacci Pillar

Dear Ableism

I’m writing to you in the hope that putting these thoughts on paper might change something between you and I.

5 min readJun 8, 2020

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Dear Ableism

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Jacci Pillar

It’s Okay to Not Know What You Don’t Know — The Activism of Art

Recently I got told I had stopped doing “activism”. People in my life felt disappointed and that I had “sold out” from my days of more…

4 min readMay 22, 2020

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It’s Okay to Not Know What You Don’t Know — The Activism of Art

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Jacci Pillar

Not Playing is Not an Option Now More Than Ever

I grew up in a household in genuine medical crisis, surrounded by trauma, limiting play. Learning to play again as an adult saved my life…

4 min readMay 19, 2020

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Not Playing is Not an Option Now More Than Ever

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Jacci Pillar

Jacci Pillar

Gin and Titters, disability/queer focussed comedy production was started by anthropologist and sometimes comedian Jacci Pillar in 2016.

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