Djed Press is created on the colonised lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty has never been ceded. This land has always been, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
Tresa LeClerc is a Chilean-American writer. She co-curates the Unlecture in the Present Tense Literary Talks Series and her short story ‘American Riviera,’ was published as part of the book 9 Slices. Her creative work has appeared in Wild Tongue zine and Essay Daily, and her academic writing has appeared in Writing in Practice Journal of Creative Writing Research. She is a casual lecturer at RMIT University.
The conversation turned to Chileans. “They’re all liars! And perverts!” one attendee observed. “Oh my god, so true,” another contributed, a New Yorker.