Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Footscray Whitewash
Down Nicholson Street Mall, past the pho and noodle shops, Cheap n' Chic is closing down. A FOR LEASE sign has been plastered across its windows. The walls, once crammed with goods, are now bared white. Only a few bags hang off the hooks. ...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Skin Routes – The Racialised Contours of Filipino Flesh
As a Filipina, I was brought up with stories about the ‘fatherland’. The myth of this superior fatherland was articulated in many ways: in how my family emphasised the beauty of my grandmothers’ Spanish heritage (her father was Castilian Spanish), and the tendency to promote Spanish colonialism simply as a ‘good’ thing for Filipinos...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Salman, you send me
Have you ever met an Indian God or his living incarnation? I have. So close an approximation in the flesh I could have never imagined, until that night in Mumbai...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Fissures and friendships: how I became a woman of colour
What affinity do I have with someone I might identify as a woman of colour? What does it mean for me, a non-Aboriginal Melburnian, to identify the struggle of Indigenous women in the Northern Territory against sexual violence and state intervention as a women of colour issue? Does that show solidarity, or does it just allude to a shared...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Stuff Brown People Like
This is a mathematical approach to highlight stuff brown people like in the style of Christian Lander’s blog http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/. The brown people mentioned in this piece are usually of a South Asian background and have been observed in various parts of the world by the author – mostly an observation of her family and friends....
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
An Evening With Ai Haruna. (Sort Of.)
Captivated, I became a queer celebrity hound. I wanted to meet them, talk to them, and ask them about what confused me the most: why did Japanese television seem so gay, when Japanese society seemed so conservative and ultra-straight? I sent emails to publicists, agents and television stations, requesting interviews with their most prominent drag...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Caught up in expectations: A comment on substantive representation and Penny Wong
What are the chances for social, cultural and economic inclusion in a nation where elected office is dominated by white Australians...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Interview with Gary Lee
For almost two decades, Gary Lee’s photographic art has shown an unflinching pursuit of masculine beauty and, more recently, of indigenous male beauty. Often a subject of controversy, in 2006 the artist voluntarily took down an entire exhibition, including some male nude portraits, rather than be censored...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Poetry
Poetry by Benjamin Laird, Raja, Matt Hetherington, Siobhan Hodge and Rory Harris, edited by Miriam Wei Wei Lo...
Jan
2011 5
2011 5
Fear of a Brown Planet: fight the power with laughter
The first time I met Fear of a Brown Planet comic duo Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain, it was not at a post-show groupie hangout; it was at the very edge of the performance stage of an overcrowded Espy where we were all moshed in together to watch one of the legends of hip-hop – Public Enemy. ...
