‘I’ve come to appreciate that history and our collective capacities are as important as one’s own capacity.’
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I really do believe in art as a refuge.
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Looking back, I guess there is something endearing about being able to hear the imperfections that are derived from human performance.
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Surviving as artists in capitalist, patriarchal, White Supremacy is made deliberately hard. Sometimes, the fact that you have lived another day is an achievement in itself.
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‘Allowing my multi-disciplinary training to flow through me during the process but selecting what I wish to say with clarity has taken me many years of trial and error.’
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‘Growing up here in Australia as a person of colour, with both an African and Asian identity, I felt that no one understood my experience.’
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‘I have found stories and artefacts that have made a huge impression on me and changed my interpretations of history, but these pieces are always in fragments with uncertain degrees of ‘truth’ at their core.’
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‘It’s only been over the past couple of years that I’ve realised how white the radio landscape in Australia is.’
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‘A text speaks from a position of power, therefore reading representations based on assumptions and stereotypes are disempowering and upsetting.’
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‘Migration is seen as a non-asset or a burden. Yet if you think about it, people have come from all over the world and have contributed to who we are today.’
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‘There’s going to be a gap between your work and what you want your work to be: that’s fine, that’s how it should be. No one starts off at the top of their game.’
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‘You do what you can with what you have. But I think that if I had seen myself or someone who looked like me in any of these stories, it would have made such a difference in what I believed was out there for me.’
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‘Art and language are cultural products, and culture by definition is communal and cumulative—texts, too, have genealogies; they move beyond their makers.’
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‘Skin colour and background are irrelevant when it comes to an ability to write.’
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‘I think there needs to be a much more nuanced conversation about silence, and all the invisible barriers that prevent all of us from speaking out. Why is it that the victim of violence is expected to speak out? Why not the people around who can see that violence is happening?’
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‘I think a ‘home’ takes a while to build and I haven’t figured out the formula yet. I imagine it’s a place where I can feel at peace.’
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‘If love lives in the heart, I must have the words to outline exactly where it can be found—in that artery, that atrium. There’s specificity, but there’s also the feeling of the incantatory, the potential for magic. If you say the right words, something can change.’
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‘Literature and music deal with honesty, truth and fact in such different ways, and it’s cool to challenge that in a process of balancing and paralleling them.’
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‘The only reason we need to have specific diversity initiatives is that the industry, by default, is already skewed towards one side.’
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‘Coming across that casual reference to Melbourne as a publishing backwater was sobering, and a reminder that for all that new technologies have lowered the cost of entry, cultural behemoths are still created in a few geographic centres.’
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