Artist Spotlight with Liza Moscatelli
Artist spotlight on multidisciplinary artist Liza Moscatelli, by Harpreet Dhillon.
Race
Artist Spotlight with Cara Lopez
Film by Annie Brockenhuus-Schack and Joseph “Butch” Schwarzkopf, focused on food writer Cara Lopez.
Artist Spotlight with Nicole W Lee
Meet poet and playwright Nicole W Lee, in this film by Ashleigh Ho and Liam Ho.
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 […]
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: A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
(First posted at Books+Publishing.) Somewhere between wetting her pants during a standing ovation and sleeping with her conductor, violinist Jena Chung finds herself lonely. Set against a backdrop of Sydney suburbs […]
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 […]
Art Review: Terra inFirma
(First pubished by Running Dog.) This year marks 250 years since James Cook invaded Australia and stole Indigenous land with two words: Terra Nullius. In 1770, Australia was declared nobody’s land—although […]