‘In this community of just you and me, you have helped me heal in many ways.’
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‘This is a question I am constantly asking myself. Why poetry? Why writing at all?’
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‘We put a lot of pressure on ourselves as artists of colour, to have concept-driven and culturally sensitive work—but you know, sometimes I just want to take beautiful photos that aren’t conceptually dense, that are simply nice to look at.’
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‘We lose nothing, and gain everything, by ensuring voices of minority groups are represented in food media.’
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‘When I visit schools to give talks, it means I get to show students that this is what an author looks like— I’d never had an Asian-Australian writer visit when I was in school, so on a personal level I understand the significance and privilege of the position.’
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‘Being Asian-Australian is an understanding that there is no centre and no periphery, only several crisscrossing flows.’
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“But I never felt like I had that role model in football. So there was hesitation in joining the football club, knowing that I would be the only Asian player out there.”
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‘f you’re talking openly about wanting to burn white supremacy to the ground having a good white person close by is evidence to other white people that you’re talking about the structures and not the individual.’
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‘Having these limitations of disability, a Vietnamese background and a hearing impairment actually works in my favour, because I'm not restricted by some white gatekeeper telling me that my body, voice and sensibility doesn’t fit within the mainstream.’
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‘I’m always experimenting, so I’m always in the headspace to do it.’
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‘I’ve found that a lot of music companies pride themselves on having gender diverse staff or rosters, which is obviously also important. But they don’t put this same energy into creating culturally diverse spaces.’
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‘I think a power I want to hold to account or challenge is actually cultural power—where it’s about challenging an internalised view that a listener has. I think that is a really significant kind of power that largely goes unquestioned.’
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‘I write, therefore I am.’
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‘I get asked if I’m into abject art, which is funny because I don’t see it as disgusting at all, I actually think they’re really beautiful and peaceful works.’
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‘The way that I work often starts with material play, which then progresses into lots of experimentation with form and how to install it. Sometimes I do have an image in mind that I am working towards.’
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‘However much goodwill there may be for a writer of colour, this ecosystem is not built for us, and at some point in the life of a book, an FNPOC writer is going to come up against a wall of whiteness that will leave a mark. I guarantee it.’
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‘If you supersaturate the world with images, you have to consider the work that these images do, which can be a work of substitution—cultural consumption as a stand-in for material change.’
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‘There’s art and there’s direct, material political work to be done. Are they really so separate? Art lends complication, confrontation and possibility to our understandings of each other; it offers both critical and imaginative potential.’
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‘Only recently did I realise how much my mixed background has affected my sense of identity and how I see myself.’
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‘I have learnt that listening really is everything. Not only for what is said, and letting that lead and guide me, but for what is not said.’
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