Interview #49 — Jean Tong

'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.'

InterviewLeah McIntosh25 March 2018

Interview #48 — Phuong Ngo

‘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?’

InterviewLeah McIntosh18 March 2018

Interview #47 — Vivienne La

‘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?’

InterviewLeah McIntosh12 March 2018

Interview #46 — Mindy Gill

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

InterviewLeah McIntosh5 March 2018

Interview #45 — Pia Johnson

'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.'

InterviewLeah McIntosh25 February 2018Blog

Interview #44 — Shu-Ling Chua

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

InterviewLeah McIntosh18 February 2018

Interview #43 — Jessica Yu

'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.'

InterviewLeah McIntosh11 February 2018

Interview #42 — Chervil Tan

'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.'

InterviewLeah McIntosh5 February 2018

Interview #41 — Eileen Chong

'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.'

InterviewLeah McIntosh28 January 2018robertwood

Interview #40 — Lachy Siu

'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.'

InterviewLeah McIntosh21 January 2018

Interview #39 — Vivan Vo

'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.'

InterviewLeah McIntosh18 December 2017