Creative Storytelling is a Tool for Self-Determination
Angus Smith in conversation with Jeanine HouraniJeanine Hourani reveals why it takes a story to displace a story.
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Museums of blood? A review of Who Owns History
By Charmaine ManuelGeoffrey Robertson’s latest returns our attention to one of the most important arguments within the world of art and culture: who owns objects of the past?
Fighting For Our Lives
By David BraniganNick Cook’s new book is the incredible story of communities taking action and fighting back. Amidst the dark years of an epidemic, marginalised communities rallied to protect their own, forming organisations to give themselves a voice.
Managing the Calculus: the story of an activist, academic and President Obama’s adviser on human rights
By Amy WaltersHow does one person make a difference? Samantha Power’s memoir shows how she balanced her activist nature with her work as presidential Cabinet official, along with the challenges she faced in developing her own idealism.
When You Need to Start Again
By Natalie D-NapoleonNatalie D-Napoleon’s poem is from a body of work that explores motherhood, from both a political and personal perspective, and the silencing of women’s voices.
You Daughters of Freedom: a review
By Maria GriffinThrough the eyes of five remarkable women, Clare Wright explores the battle for women’s votes. Wright reestablishes these forgotten suffragettes and ensures that history will remember their inspiring example.
Museum of Inherited Memories launches for Yom HaShoah
By Bec BridgesThe Museum of Inherited Memories exhibits artistic interpretations of the shifting shapes of memories over time.
The Witches Are Coming: a review
By Caitlin CassidyEqual parts funny, empowering and moving, Lindy West’s book of essays The Witches Are Coming focuses on feminism and protest, asking us not to despair, but to be empowered and to act.
Dice playing
By Virginia LoweAfter an unprecedented bushfire season, the curious protagonist of Dr Virgina Lowe’s prose poems considers our planet, the climate crisis and chance.
Guluk naksa
By Leila LoisIn her poems, Leila explores a personal sense of origin that, like the ocean, binds several landscapes and times, coming back to the idea that a timeless, boundless love pervades.
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By Emma HartleyEmma Hartley argues that a democratic deficit at Australian universities is stalling progress on addressing systemic issues like sexual violence and placing the onus of action on students rather than administration.
Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America: a review
By Samaya ArgüelloIn San Francisco four refugees arrive fleeing harassment and violence, only to find that their freedom in the US is still uncertain. In the age of Trump’s anti-immigration, seeking asylum can take years and too often they find themselves struggling with basic human rights and needs.