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.
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Fighting for justice and dignity: Interview with Behrouz Boochani
Right Now speaks to writer Behrouz Boochani about his call for a Royal Commission into Immigration Detention.
“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.
On Violence: a review
On Violence creates a conversation about violence as a national emergency and what needs to be done to prevent it.
Weaponised weathers: heat, Don Dale, and ‘everything-ist’ prison abolition
Oppressive heat, humidity and poor ventilation: how Australia’s carceral system weaponises more-than-human forces, like the weather.
Stripping children of dignity
Thousands of humiliating strip searches have been carried out on young children in our criminal justice system: is this a dignified practice?
Surviving: a review of Shout
Laurie Halse Anderson’s autobiographical collection of poetry is a story of survival more than it is a story about rape.
Close the Inquest
Some observations from Awabakal Country, at the delivery of the findings of the inquest into the death of Rebecca Maher.
Going Postal: a review
Engage with the highs and lows of the marriage equality survey in this compilation which amplifies the voices of those both in and out of the campaigns
Talking Away the Taboo
Sohaila Abdulali’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape challenges the conversations surrounding rape culture and acts as a rallying call to all.
Modern American living: a review of Rendezvous with Oblivion
Thomas Frank’s new book is a scathing and insightful views into politics and policies that affect modern American life.
Soon the sun rose in September, Santiago
Poet Juan Garrido Salgado writes an homage to Licha Ortiz and her father Fernando Ortiz, who was Disappeared in 1976 in Chile.