Archive for the ‘Featured’ Category
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 day. For anyone who knows me,...
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 pit in the wrong hands. ...
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 festival program is punctuated by...
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...
Dec 12, 12 • Culture, Featured • 15 Comments »
My partner’s sister recently married. She opted to change her surname and take on her husband’s name, as per tradition…Anglo-Celtic tradition, that is. It’s largely Anglo-Celtic tradition that acts as the main reference...
Dec 11, 12 • Featured, Uncategorised • 5 Comments »
It’s highly likely that by now you would have seen the video that went viral of several individuals racially abusing and threatening a French woman and others on a Melbourne bus. One of the main protagonists made these threats while pushing a pram...
Nov 28, 12 • Arts, Featured, Headline • 2 Comments »
A few weeks ago ArtsHub published a criticism of Parramasala, a South Asian arts festival in Sydney, by Gary Paramanathan, a Tamil-Australian filmmaker and Director of Colourfest Film Festival. Paramanathan says: I remember three years ago when...
