Reaching a Middle Ground
The politics of polarisation has dominated public consciousness. In a world where divineness has found its way into our everyday conversations, it is now more than ever where we need […]
Writing
Our Writing & Criticism stream has run in successive StoryCasters programs. Emerging writers from Western Sydney have participated in an intensive program of workshops and mentoring led by Winnie Dunn, Shirley Le, and Sheree Joseph from Sweatshop Literacy Movement. These participants have reviewed plays, exhibits, books, and festivals and received editorial feedback. Their works have appeared in publications like Running Dog, The Big Issue, Books + Publishing, The Saturday Paper, Audrey Journal, Aniko Press, Artshub and Kill Your Darlings.
Not Alone Youth is a network developed for youth, by Australian youth. And they’re here to dismantle negative narratives
He swerves out of my way, holding up his arms over his head, waving his white t-shirt in his hand like a flag. Granules of blond sand flake off his […]
Review: 7 Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner
It had been less than twenty four hours prior to Darlinghurst Theatre opening their auditorium doors that so-called Australia rejoiced their genocidal colonial canon on the 26th. During her idiomatic […]
Review: Black Brass
Review of Black BrassBelvoir TheatreBy Mararo Wangai6-23 January On Thursday night, I sat amongst friends whose families are from Haiti, Namibia and Zimbabwe while we watched Black Brass, a 70-minute […]
Review: Kalaga Atu
I stand face to face with the sandstone façade of the Art Gallery of New South Wales with my pocket-sized Tongan fan in one hand and mobile phone in the […]
The Keris and the Cannon
My mother’s ancestors lived in Java and Sumatra. My Dad’s ancestors were convicts on the second fleet. Mum met Dad when he visited Java by way of Papua New Guinea […]
An Appropriate Reaction
(First published at Running Dog.) Growing up Black in Australia meant living with subtle, but frequent, acts of discrimination. My white friend’s mother was always glad to have me over. […]
Book Review: Memorial
The essence of Bryan Washington’s debut novel, Memorial, is the invisible barriers that dictate what we can be, who we can be with and where we will end up. Benson, a […]
Art Review: Flowers and Fighter Jets
(Originally published in the exhibition booklet.) There’s anger in the eyes of the women Amani Haydar paints. There is strength and sadness as well, which by all accounts, is a reflection […]
Memory and faith in the work of Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Khalid Warsame
On a Tuesday night at Gleebooks, between Sydney’s hurried inner-city and its hipstered inner-west, three Australian Muslim writers gathered to talk about their ideas of race and belonging. Writers Somali-Australian, Khalid Warsame and Lebanese-Australian, Michael […]
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