Meet Eleanor Jackson, Peril’s poetry editor. She wants to meet more Asian-Australian poets. For dinner and dancing, maybe some long walks on the...
Coming out Asian-Australian
Jun 3, 13 • Culture, Featured, Headline • No Comments »Meet Eleanor Jackson, Peril’s poetry editor. She wants to meet more Asian-Australian poets. For dinner and dancing, maybe some long walks on the beach. But probably just reading poetry. I updated my blog the other...
Review: Stories Then & Now
May 30, 13 • Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Reviews • No Comments »There are many ways to tell a story and there are many types of storytellers. An incredible storyteller can make a boring story the most dramatic experience you’ve sat through, a poignant story can fall into a dead...
Review: Contemporary Asian Australian Poets
May 30, 13 • Arts, Culture, Fashion, Featured, Headline, Reviews • 2 Comments »The Sydney Writers Festival is an extraordinary undertaking. Not only is there a battery of renowned writers, publishers, critics and commentators packed into Sydney’s Walsh Bay precinct over six days, but the...
10th year anniversary of the closure of the notorious Woomera Detention Centre
May 5, 13 • Activism, Featured, Headline, Politics • No Comments »RISE is the first refugee and asylum seeker organisation in Australia to be run and governed by refugees, asylum seekers and ex-detainees. Despite not having any full-time staff, RISE does not receive any funding from...
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Review: Stories Then & Now
There are many ways to tell a story and there are many types of storytellers. An incredible storyteller can make a boring story the most dramatic...
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Review: Contemporary Asian Australian Poets
The Sydney Writers Festival is an extraordinary undertaking. Not only is there a battery of renowned writers, publishers, critics and commentators...
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10th year anniversary of the closure of the notorious...
RISE is the first refugee and asylum seeker organisation in Australia to be run and governed by refugees, asylum seekers and ex-detainees. Despite...
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Do you dance like you’re Chinese?
I wrote a series of reflections on visibility, belonging and passing throughout 2011 and 2012. This version was edited for a reading during...
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Review: PhiL and Me
Diana Nguyen’s alter ego Kim Huong returns in the 2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival show PhiL and Me. When Kim reveals all in her memoir...
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How I got into an anthology of South Asian...
You know when you are a brown girl in the world and you grow up reading Enid Blyton and Nancy Drew and all the newsreaders on television and all of...
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‘Australian born Indian’
I support myself as a professional artist and I recently left my gallery representation in Melbourne when I realised they had begun representing a...
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Where are all the Asian men?
So recently I exchanged life in a big city for life in a regional centre. From multicultural, diverse Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast, which is about...
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Are we there yet? Multicultural media at a...
I had the opportunity to speak at the first ever multicultural media forum at NSW Parliament last week. The Multicultural Media At A Crossroads...
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