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 […]
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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 […]
BLEED Festival: Closing
(First pubished as part of the BLEED Echo program, part of the BLEED festival.) BLEED reminds us of the windows we have yet to create, fling open, or completely and irreversibly break down […]
Art Review: Motherland – Exile/Refuge – Migration (repeat)
When my mother stepped off the plane at Sydney’s international airport at seventeen, pregnant and sweating from the humid September heat, she cried. Like her first steps in Australia, the […]
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BLEED Festival: Save New Changes?
(First pubished as part of the BLEED Echo program, part of the BLEED festival.) Inside the lounge room of my Doonside share house, I sit on the couch and drag my thumb down […]