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The Unshackled Journal

Stephen Keating
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Stories of personal growth, resilience, and the fight for freedom

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Latest Issues

Who’s Doing Your Thinking?

There is something that happens to a person when they spend years in a system where nobody asks what they think.

Not about what they eat, when they sleep, what happens next, or whether any of it is fair. Decisions are made about you. Infor...

7 days ago
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I Don’t Have To Drink To Prove That I’m Free

There is something I’ve started to notice about myself since leaving immigration detention in Australia.

It’s not something I discovered in a counselling classroom or while reading a psychology textbook. It’s something I’ve started to unde...

14 days ago
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The Journey Out:

Two and a half years in immigration detention. One final goodbye. Handcuffs, holding rooms, a full English breakfast, a passport, a Gaeilge welcome sign and the beginning of a new life.

The night before

I’ve been thinking a lot about the...

21 days ago
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Same Engine. Different Road.

The street hustler and the stockbroker. The “good” soldier and the “bad” soldier. The hacker and the programmer. The scientist and the weapons maker. What if the difference between them isn’t always the engine, but where that engine is poin...

a month ago
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The Master Plan

I’ve been walking around this Detention Centre differently this week. Like I’m seeing it for the last time. Because I am.

Every footstep feels like it has purpose. Every rep in the gym carries a strange nostalgia. Every conversation has be...

a month ago
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