“Sex is always weird, Ange,” she said. “No matter who you’re with.”
Existing is easier when you think you have no ambition.
The Moment is a year-long series of poems featuring new work from some of our most exciting First Nations and/or other poets of colour, responding to the current cultural moment we find ourselves in today.
The Moment is a year-long series of poems featuring new work from some of our most exciting First Nations and/or other poets of colour, responding to the current cultural moment we find ourselves in today.
My name was my name before
I walked among the living
The narrative we’re expected to tell is one that affirms white liberal saviour sensibilities: How could we not keep this foreigner safe in our country?
choose.
choose is whitefella language.
my native tongue
‘blackfella’.
I was offered a seemingly simple solution: Take off the hijab, and assimilate.
“It’s called Arabic, you dense wanker.”
the name ordained by the gods. tattooed on our tongues so we don’t forget.