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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
In the dark spaces between the puddles of weak yellow light, flying insects whirl and hurl themselves against the windscreen, following their instincts for brighter places. (p.209, This Mournable Body)Like such insects, Tambudzai strives to create, or have...
Summer Phillips | Nov 10, 2020 | 0 Comments
A name, a face, a hope: how mass movement of people should be understood in the detail of human life
Being a refugee is more than a political status, it is the most pervasive kind of cruelty that can be exercised against a human being. You are forcibly robbing this human being of all aspects that would make human life not just tolerable but meaningful in many...
Alice Farkas | Nov 10, 2020 | 0 Comments
My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The first thing that stands out when embarking on My Sister the Serial Killer novel is the incredibly short chapters, this instantly creates a fast pace that gets your heart racing from the very first page. Anticipation is ignited though the pace and the opening...
Lisa Munson | Nov 10, 2020 | 0 Comments
Min Jin Lee
Pinball machines in Japan are a money-spinning $200 billion dollar industry that generates 30x more cash than Las Vegas and employs more people than the top 10 car manufacturers. Known as Pachinko, the parlours, in which the pinball game is played, are dominated by...
Heady Mix | Nov 7, 2020 | 0 Comments
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Inspired by the works of Audre Lorde and Alice Walker, when she was still coming out to herself, Nicole Dennis-Benn in Here Comes the Sun, has, like her heroines, written a bold glimpse into the lives and minds of women who love women. Here Comes the Sun is a novel...
Heady Mix | Nov 7, 2020 | 0 Comments
Why we must travel to the future to realise Native American relevance in the present
‘Delivery From Earth’ is the screenplay that won filmmaker Michael Becker first place, and consequently the budget for a small production, when entered into the Lockheed Martin and the New Mexico Film Foundation film contest. A loose brief, the competition posed...
Alice Farkas | Sep 11, 2020 | 0 Comments
It hurts my spirit: How Australia’s Indigenous homelands are suffering the effects of climate change first and worst
As Australia’s first climate change network led by young Indigenous people, Seed aims to protect remote communities living on the frontline of climate change impact; namely Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have lived in the Northern Territory (NT)...
Alice Farkas | Sep 4, 2020 | 0 Comments
The severed cord: How residential schools savagely divorced generations from their culture
Written and directed by Lisa Jackson, Savage is a short film that powerfully exposes, what was for generations, the sordid reality for Aboriginal families living in Canada between 1831 and 1996. As a token 1950s car hums along a country road, a young girl gazes...
Alice Farkas | Aug 23, 2020 | 0 Comments
Sister of ice and snow, sister of ocean and sand
Standing atop of a melting glacier on a remote spot of southern Greenland’s ice sheet are Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner from the Marshall Islands in Micronesia, and Inuk poet Aka Niviâna. Having only met a few days prior, though communicating by email for months,...
Alice Farkas | Aug 7, 2020 | 0 Comments
Nigeria’s queer literature offers a new way of looking at Blackness
Queering the Black Atlantic: Transgender Spaces in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater is a paper by Rocío Cobo-Piñero. It considers Emezi’s award-winning semi-autobiographical novel about Ada, who is an ogbanje, a spirit born in a human body. It uses the novel to suggest...
Heady Mix | Jul 14, 2020 | 0 Comments
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