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 […]
Race
Artist Spotlight with George Basha
Samia Halabi spotlights the work of director, producer and writer George Basha.
Artist Spotlight with Liza Moscatelli
Artist spotlight on multidisciplinary artist Liza Moscatelli, by Harpreet Dhillon.
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 […]