Interview #104 — Julie Koh

‘At the start, it’s hard to know what rejections mean. Is your writing shit, or does the editor just not understand your work? Persist and stay true to your vision.’

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh14 July 2019

Interview #103 — Snehargho Ghosh

‘Being a foreigner in Australia, I feel you are constantly a kind of ambassador of your culture, and it is often difficult not to get stereotyped.’

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh7 July 2019

Interview #102 — Marisa Wikramanayake

‘Learn your rights. Join your union.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh1 July 2019

Interview #101 — Danny Silva Soberano

‘You can’t get better and not be vulnerable. You learn this. You grow older. You no longer believe that you are made of ruins.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh23 June 2019

Interview #100 — William Yang

‘When you've got a camera you're a step back; you're looking at a scene without really taking part in it. You're actually watching it rather than participating, in that way.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh3 June 2019

Interview #99 — Sumarlinah Raden Winoto

‘Be honest. Be vulnerable with yourself, especially if you can’t be vulnerable with others around you…’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh27 May 2019

Interview #98 — Wilson Leung

‘When you go to the Blue Mountains and you see that one Chinese restaurant that has those chopsticks fonts written on the outside, that’s the Asian mimicry typeface I’m talking about.’

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh20 May 2019

Interview #97 - Melanie Cheng

‘General practice and writing are good companions. One skill essential to both is empathy.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh13 May 2019

Interview #96 — Gemma Mahadeo

‘I can’t get out of the habit of thinking of words, lines, and the spaces between as another kind of music.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh6 May 2019

Interview #95 — Siying Zhou

‘I am displaced from the place I have left and still disconnected to the place that I have moved into.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh28 April 2019

Interview #94 — Catherine Huang

‘Mystery on the internet is a bit overrated.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh23 April 2019

Interview #93 — James Nguyen

‘I think it’s a personal responsibility to seek complex narratives and dialogues that drill more critically in to Australia’s history as an environmental, colonial, immigrant, global and Indigenous space.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh15 April 2019

Interview #92 — Kyle Casey Chu

‘I’ve waited my entire life for media that accurately represents me and all of my identities, with dignity and authenticity. It never came. So we decided to make it ourselves.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh8 April 2019

Interview #91 — Benjamin Law

‘Asian-Australians are a community and identity with a history unto ourselves, and screw anyone who challenges us on it.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh1 April 2019

Interview #90 — Lawrence Leung

‘People want to laugh as well as learn more about themselves. It’s the comedy of curiosity.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh24 March 2019

Interview #89 — Eugenia Flynn

‘First and foremost, I bring my cultural contexts to my work. That’s why I put my cultural and religious identities in my biography, even though this may be seen as crass or too pointed.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh17 March 2019

Interview #88 – Mari Stuart

‘I've seen a big shift in the way that people book female, gender-diverse and POC artists over the past few years in Sydney.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh12 March 2019

Interview #87 — Sonia Nair

‘The cultural criticism I enjoy writing the most originates with a question or a concern that I’m unable to resolve.’

Interview, 2Leah McIntosh4 March 2019

Interview #86 — Hoda Afshar

‘When you make social or political work, you do it with the hope that it might contribute to changing the world in some small way, and so you are building the future.’

2, InterviewLeah McIntosh25 February 2019