Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category
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 the federal government. ...
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 international high school are white? And...
Mar 23, 13 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics • 1 Comment »
I support myself as a professional artist and I recently left my gallery representation in Melbourne when I realised they had begun representing a white artist whose work has appropriated Indigenous Australian art. I’m not going to discuss that...
Mar 4, 13 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics, Uncategorised • 5 Comments »
I had the opportunity to speak at the first ever multicultural media forum at NSW Parliament last week. The Multicultural Media At A Crossroads conference was jointly organised by the Multicultural Media Awards, the UTS Faculty of Arts and Social...
Nov 13, 12 • Activism, Arts, Culture, Featured, Headline, Politics • 2 Comments »
Iwan Wojono is an acclaimed Indonesian performance artist and political activist, who is currently artist-in-residence at the Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane. Ten Failed Doomsday Prophecies… and the End of the World is a collaboration between Iwan...
Jan 1, 12 • Activism, Reviews • No Comments »
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of performing a couple of poems at a screening and discussion of Courage Unfolds, a documentary about LGBT* activism in Asia. The event was organised by the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council. I was...
