Quantum Words Perth: Reflections on Language, Science and Ways of Knowing
Sarah Yeung reflects on the Quantum Words festival, investigating the ways in which science and language interact through colonial discourse and Indigenous knowledges.
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Poster Boy: a review
Street artist Peter Drew writes about his life and work in this captivating memoir delving into contemporary Australian identity and art.
Growing Up Queer in Australia: a review
Edited by Benjamin Law, Growing Up Queer in Australia brings together a diverse and moving array of voices that spans the identity spectrum.
Love and Family: a review of The White Girl
Tony Birch’s newest book is an insight into how the laws initiating and perpetuating the Stolen Generations affected families and towns in rural Australia.
See What You Made Me Do: a review
Jess Hill’s engaging book is a call for us to rethink the structures enabling the continuing national crisis of domestic violence.
The Ungrateful Refugee: a review
Dina Nayeri’s book, The Ungrateful Refugee, opens up a narrative of refugee experience, and what is it like to flee, hope, wait and start anew.
“Welcome to the Club”: a review of Choice Words
Choice words is a collection of timely writing highlighting and unmasking abortion and it’s stigma, because sometimes choice doesn’t really mean choice.
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: a review
How did we get here? Judith Brett explores democracy in Australia, how we got the compulsory vote and our current political scene.
It’s Not About the Burqa: a review
It’s Not About the Burqa Ed. Mariam Khan Pan Macmillan The burqa has been the centrepiece of polarising debates surrounding Islamophobia in the last two decades. In Australia, Pauline Hanson shocked the nation in 2017 by entering the Senate donned in a black burqa in a call to make the garment illegal. In Britain, Boris […]
Power, language and feminism: a review of Wordslut
Amanda Montell explores the intersection between language and feminism, and how minorites can wield power through language.
Helping Hands: a review
What are the consequences of help? A_tistic’s new performance Helping Hands explores the ways in which ‘help’ can leave scars on those with disabilities.
On Violence: a review
On Violence creates a conversation about violence as a national emergency and what needs to be done to prevent it.