I would suggest that when lesbians become victims of attack, they are a signal. They are the canaries in the mine. And if the perpetrators get away with it, then …
Trust: A Fractured Fable (Jeanne Ryckmans)
MARCH 2020, SYDNEY A magistrate finalised an uncontested Apprehended Violence Order for two years against the Irish Professor under the Crimes Act (Domestic and Personal Violence) three weeks after he …
I am a Palestinian Child (Badaoui El-Hage & Zeina Issa)
Seventy years and spring has not yet arrived. For seventy years, our windows and doors brought forth revolt after revolt and we churned the tune of every song into an …
Threads of Silent Longing (Hasti Abbasi)
Bahar drinks a glass of water. A soft sensation starts to stir inside her. Still within her regular cycle, yet this time, it feels different. She gets out of bed, …
This Land Is Mine (Nina Paley)
Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide Early Man This generic “cave man” represents the first human settlers in Israel/Canaan/the Levant. Whoever they were. Canaanite What did ancient Canaanites …
When Feminism Becomes a Tool for Assimilation (Nathalie Martinek)
You’re at a women’s empowerment event. Everyone on stage speaks fluently and eloquently. The language is crisp, the tone measured, and the slogans aligned. It’s a feminism that photographs well …
Heathpack (Gregory Day)
The birds live a parallel existence to us in this place. Their comings and goings. Chords and clusters. Three pelicans flying past the Moriac Store. A skein of ibis over …
Griftivism (Michele Seminara)
My first exposure to what I now call “griftivism,” a hybrid of grifting and Critical Social Justice activism, occurred in the arts. It was 2020 when—in my role as managing …
Damnatio Memoriae (Nina Power)
Well, the Romans thought they could kill a man every record, after death (you could kill him too) zero He wasn’t here he didn’t do these things no one ever …
To Sing of War (Catherine McKinnon)
December 1944 1 Lotte Nialu She hears singing: one lone voice at first, clear and resonant, a tenor, then others join in, and the song rises and falls, until it …