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 […]
Literature
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 […]
Artist Spotlight with Nicole W Lee
Meet poet and playwright Nicole W Lee, in this film by Ashleigh Ho and Liam Ho.
Interview: Keana Aguila Labra
Butch interviews Keana Aguila Labra, editor of the international Filipinx femme literary magazine, Marias at Sampaguitas.
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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Book Review: Into the Suburbs
(First posted at Books+Publishing.) Christopher Raja’s Into the Suburbs is the author’s first foray into memoir, and documents his migration from Calcutta to Australia in the 80s. Drawn by the glamorous Australia of […]
Book Review: The Lost Citizens
On the 31st October 2019, Daniel Nour and I from Sweatshop Writer’s Collective, attended WestWords October Poets’ Corner event. Reading and talking to the theme of ‘Memory as Place’, was Omar Sakr, a Turkish-Lebanese Australian writer from Western Sydney and author of The Lost Arabs. Until recently, Daniel and […]
Fatima Mawas: Breaking the Rules
Samia Halabi sits down with Fatima Mawas to discuss writing and filmmaking.
Eugen Bacon: Bringing Dreams to Life
Have you ever been inspired by a dream you once had? Speculative fiction writer Eugen Bacon says she draws inspiration for her work from everywhere, including dreams. At the 2019 Boundless Festival of diverse […]