Welcome to Peril number 3 – themed “Rebel”. We have a smorgasbord of articles, pieces and poems for you, starting with an article by Scott Brook about Vietnamese-Australian eighties fashion with its rebellious overtones...

Yumi Umiumare as ‘cross-cultural’ rebel in ‘DasSHOKU Hora!!’ Japanese-born performer Yumi Umiumare’s playful investigations of cross-cultural femininity strategically utilise in-between subjectivities to fracture cultured and gendered truths. In 1995 Umiumare devised a performance in Melbourne named Tokyo DasShoku girl...

The documentary photography of Thuy Vy Dan choi: the Fashion Show It’s the last event of the 2005 Big West Festival, a community-based arts festival in Melbourne’s western suburbs. We’re all sitting around on plastic chairs beside the catwalk, waiting for the show...

“Silence” is a play about three generations of Vietnamese women haunted by the spectre of one man. Their silences hold the secrets they hold from each other and the wider community. Based on true stories from Vietnamese women the play will be performed by Australian Vietnamese Youth Media in 2008 in Melbourne...

you are supposed to be preparing your translation class. but, here you are at it again. driving at the philosophy of it the senselessness of it that somehow makes sense. ‘did you write about it?’ ups and downs, ups and ups’. ‘right now i’m getting beyond the point explicity’ ‘which doesn’t mean that it’s not ...

birds in nests keep their heads down the deers’ ears are all burning tactics are the talk of the land but a battle takes up so little room...

The deep truth is imageless.  P B Shelley On the Road My arms and legs are tightly bound. But in the hills birds sing and flowers blossom. Who can prevent my enjoying such sweet scent and sound? In my long trudge I might feel a little less lonesome. —from Ho Chi Minh, Prison Diary.    ...