“I hope Still Alive makes some contribution to a cultural and political sea change in this country, away from policies that exploit racism and fear. Ultimately we need to dismantle and overturn the entire immigration and ‘border protection’ system if we are to ever treat people humanely.”
Read More“I feel decolonisation cannot be simply the removal or negation of coloniality, but rather more the thinkability of something new, or to put it another way, a capacity to begin in some not (pre)determined way.”
Read More“We hope audiences will walk away from the show feeling invigorated to keep pushing for a world where someone like Poona could be Prime Minister.”
Read More“I tend to write freely when I feel that the room is buzzing with something impossible and strange, something that makes me so small compared to it.”
Read More“In the current climate, with Asian hate on the rise, I find that I’m trying to seek support from people who have had the same experiences as I have, whether that be in ‘real life’ relations, or in the books I read.”
Read More‘I spent the earlier part of my twenties pendulum-swinging between wanting kids and not wanting kids, and in that period of time I started writing comic vignettes of a queer woman around my age, hanging out with a young kid who’s in her care.’
Read More“Often I feel like I am simply speaking to ghosts—across time, across pages, across my own knowledges.”
Read More“You have to push in; you cannot wait to be invited. In the words of Viet Thanh Nguyen, ‘Writers from a minority, write as if you are the majority. Do not explain. Do not cater. Do not translate. Do not apologize.’"
Read More“I think about where I’m writing from and who I’m writing to most of the time. The alternative is far worse. What is authenticity anyway?”
Read More“…when I’m being creative it’s [a form of] venting. So I can focus on something else, rather than traumatic things. And that way I have something I can control.”
Read More“We’re not here to fix white publishing’s problems, we’re here to support each other and try to create the world we want to work in.”
Read More“I think solidarity, like integration, is a group endeavour. It takes conscious effort and commitment from all parties and a long time to develop.”
Read More“We like storytelling that doesn’t fear itself or its place in the audience’s mind.”
Read More“A little writing, even just a sentence, or none at all is still productive, as you can come up with the most epic idea or piece of writing from taking a rest and reset.”
Read More“Criticism is an act of paying attention, a way of looking—before it is a judgment or evaluation.”
Read More“I love fashion, lipstick, pop songs and photography, and want to make space for this in Asian-Australian literature.”
Read More“I love that grey area [that exists] when high art and street style come together.”
Read More“We hope to prove that not only are there excellent stories by authors of colour, but also that people are interested in these stories and will buy them when they are given a platform to shine.”
Read More“Binaries like mentally/physically ill, or white/Asian often cloud complex realities.”
Read More“In what ways are ‘who we are’ informed by our experiences, both painful and euphoric? What does it mean when those experiences are erased from us? That’s the stuff I want to think about in this comic, in an edgy-fun way.”
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