Arab, Australian, Other: a review
This collection explores the varied experiences of living in the Arab diaspora in Australia, countering the portrayal of the Australian media, which ranges from homogenisation to racism.
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Review: ‘The Palestine Laboratory’
'The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology Occupation Around the World' is a must read for those wanting to understand how the oppression of Palestinians is intertwined with the export of military technologies worldwide.
Race, poverty and disease: before the age of COVID-19
The history of epidemics in Sydney uncovers a pattern of scapegoating poor and racially stigmatised populations.
Creative Storytelling is a Tool for Self-Determination
Jeanine Hourani reveals why it takes a story to displace a story.
Museums of blood? A review of Who Owns History
Geoffrey 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
Nick 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
How 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
Natalie 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
Through 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
The Museum of Inherited Memories exhibits artistic interpretations of the shifting shapes of memories over time.
The Witches Are Coming: a review
Equal 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
After an unprecedented bushfire season, the curious protagonist of Dr Virgina Lowe’s prose poems considers our planet, the climate crisis and chance.
Guluk naksa
In 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.