RISE is the first refugee and asylum seeker organisation in Australia to be run and governed by refugees, asylum seekers and ex-detainees. Despite...
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...
Do you dance like you’re Chinese?
May 2, 13 • Fashion, Headline, Travel • 1 Comment »I wrote a series of reflections on visibility, belonging and passing throughout 2011 and 2012. This version was edited for a reading during Lisa-Skye‘s Midsumma spoken word showcase, The Invisibles. My recent...
Review: PhiL and Me
Apr 26, 13 • Arts, Headline, Reviews • No Comments »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 Dragon Mum: How to control your wild teenage children, her son Phi...
How I got into an anthology of South Asian Queers (or, the benefits of being a Facebook stalker)
Apr 19, 13 • Activism, Arts, Featured, Headline • 1 Comment »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 your teachers at your very British primary school and then...
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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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Why we love some Asian cuisines and not others
Have you ever wondered why you can go pretty much anywhere in Australia and find Italian food, Chinese food, and probably Thai and Indian as well?...
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Impossible is nothing: whiteness knows no limits
The 2013 Academy Award nominations were announced today and among them was a Best Actress nomination for Naomi Watts’ performance in The...
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Why I’m keeping my Vietnamese surname when I marry
My partner’s sister recently married. She opted to change her surname and take on her husband’s name, as per tradition…Anglo-Celtic...
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