B.K. Olivia

thoughts no one asked for

Hi, I’m B.K. Olivia

Writer (wannabe). 

Australian living in Japan (life crisis).

Three years until thirty (character development).

Exhale the thoughts
that trapped you there.

Blow away the dust,
carry yourself into the air.

– B.K. Olivia

An exploration of living, loving, existing

(and the impending doom of ageing)

There’ll be articles, essays, stories about life when you’re too old for twenty but too young for thirty; about when you’re a woman before a person; about the struggle between purpose and meaning; about what it is to live and be happy. 

  • The Not-Yet Child: Weaponisation of Motherhood in the movie Arrival

    Examining the representation of gender and motherhood by discussing the portrayal and function of female bodies in Arrival and ‘Story of Your Life’; the essay ultimately argues that—contrary to most feminist reviews of the movie—Arrival does not fairly represent the female lead Louise, especially in comparison with ‘Story of Your Life’.

  • Landscape and the Connection to Possible Selves

    When a character is connected to the concept of the possible self, it provides context for the past and incentives for the future, creating a complex emotional map to understanding; this theory can be applied when analysing the restructuring of self-identity.

  • Twenty-Two in Tokyo

    I’d been struggling with one thing—my identity between who I thought I was, who I wanted to be, and who I was forced to be at home.