'Exposing the ways that those discordant parts exist is important to me: here I am, I do exist, & I’m probably not the only weirdo in this situation so I’d like to connect to people who can understand. Liminality is the only constant thing about me.'

'There is a tendency to only talk about exploitation of workers in the garment industry as something that happens overseas, but it happened in Australia for a long time.'

"We deserve to be happy. We have the right to be seen, and the right to demand to be seen."

'Musical theatre is shockingly white, and a lot of ‘classic’ favourites are decades old and racist in content and casting. However, the way those stories are told is deeply familiar.'

"Pursuing a career in the creative fields is a luxury... When you've struggled to put food on the table, the mentality is often ‘why would you go out and choose to deliberately be poor?"

'I’ve always been fascinated with still life, and the visual puzzle of creating balance in arrangement—why does an incremental shift within a set of objects make my brain see disharmony and imbalance?'

'Reading is great, and incredibly important, talking to writers is also good and important. But writers write. There is no other secret.'

'I have more recently embraced the non-white, female, cross cultural box or label, and have felt strength by owning it. At the same time I feel uncomfortable to be boxed in by it—it is complex.'

'Writing has helped me to understand and accept aspects of who I am.'

'I think counteracting dehumanising thinking with deeply tender, rigorous, humanising fiction and essayistic writing is the best way to reclaim my racial identity from the white gaze.'

'There’s a resilience that people don’t realise about models. We have to deal with that face-to-face judgement about something you can’t really change. So you just have to be who you are.'

'I do not have very strong boundaries between my private and creative self: so many of my own interests and passions bleed right into my work.'

'Our euro-colonial aesthetic lens has blinded us to objects that don’t fit our preconceived cultural mould, one that has been ingrained into us over the last 200 years.'

'It’s obvious that we’re not being represented. In festival line-ups, music playlists and artist rosters, we’re still fighting for diversity; people of colour are a token.'

"I feel dance is an essential human activity—as Pina Bausch said, ‘Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost!’ Indeed."

'I think no matter what, each artist is always political.'

'Dance was my haven from racist pressures for assimilation.'

'I don’t have the sense of fulfillment about my own work that allows me to stop changing, to stop learning. It’s never-ending.'

'You can’t be everything to everyone nor should you desire that... sometimes you just have to tune out and run your own race.'

'We have been socialised to think that ‘serious’ philosophy is a white man’s game.'

'I think anyone who has grown up as something of an outsider develops unique ways of viewing the world, other people.'

'Design aims to take ordinary, everyday products like clothes and gives them that human touch and something to connect with.'

'I think anger is really healthy. It’s motivating; and it’s something a lot of women are expected to swallow, as anger isn’t a ‘routine’ or acceptable emotion according to tired stereotypes.'

"I tend to use writing as a form of therapy, to make sense of or learn something from confusing & disorientating experiences."

"I feel really dysmorphic about my skin colour, only because the way it is translated back to me."

'I used to have a lot of anger around being mixed-race and other people’s perceptions of me, but now I figure I know who I am even if nobody else does.'

'Read outside your comfort zone, read writers you've never heard of, read translated books.'

'If you want to make art, find a way to do it, make it known, make it seen.'