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Negro Speaks of Books

The Negro Speaks of Books: Parable of the Sower

By The Negro Speaks of BooksMay 21, 2018

What decisions would be made by those in power if they physically felt the consequences of their actions?

Commentary

In Praise of the Saree

By Devana SenanayakeMay 17, 2018

The saree is many things: timeless, adaptable, non-discriminatory, complimentary, multipurpose and carries history in its threads.

Poetry

Lipstick Stains

By Maz HedgehogMay 16, 2018

He looks like
Lipstick on a coffee cup
He looks like
Daisy chains

Commentary

Nas Daily: whitewashing Australia in just 1 minute

By Tasnim SammakMay 11, 2018

The consistency of denials and erasure in Yassin’s videos is an important reminder of how pervasive an investment in whiteness can be to one’s overall world outlook.

Poetry

White ‘Sisters’

By Makayla-May BrinckleyMay 9, 2018

I wish you would
Understand
how haunted I am;
how haunted we are.

Commentary

Growing up Latinx, part 2: Australiana

By Vanessa GironMay 2, 2018

I am the lovechild of the nation that birthed me and the nation that raised me, and neither wants to claim me.

Commentary

Wrong Kind of Colour Blind

By Eugene YangApril 30, 2018

The dickhead’s t-shirt said Say Yes to Life. Apparently not my life though, and I still can’t quite figure out why.

Commentary

Growing up Latinx, part 1: Representation

By Saúl A. Zavarce C.April 26, 2018

Is there a need for the Latinx Australian experience to be explored or represented in Australian media?

Stories We Grew Up With

Nanna’s Teta (Tharawal mob, New South Wales)

By Vicki GriffinApril 23, 2018

“Everyone has some sort of teta whose smells take them back to special memories.”

Poetry

Mama Africa: a poem from her lost children

By NyakourApril 19, 2018

We are your children.
Scattered and lost on this earth.
Kidnapped and robbed from you.

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Poetry

Ten

By Rerose RoroApril 15, 2022

They Still Sing

April 5, 2022

The Beautiful Magpie

April 5, 2022

Did you know, aunty?

April 5, 2022

Christmas in July

December 25, 2021

EOI: Editorial Director

August 4, 2021

Visitor

June 4, 2021

Speaking to nothing but Palestine

May 21, 2021
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