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The Colonialism in Your Heart

Today, let’s talk about your favourite topic and mine, colonialism. I spent three days at Ubud Writers and Readers Festival last week, and it was lovely! And currently the Singapore Writers Festival is...

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Called-out author bingo

Does it even matter what inspired this? The sad truth is that all this has happened before, and will happen again, for as long as agents keep repping racist books and publishers keep buying them....

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inappropriate Australian hot takes on that USA thing

Yeah, nah. Yesterday the USA elected a man who assaults women as president. Today, ACMI tells Melbourne to inject levity into the situation by watching movies by noted paedophile Roman Polanski: Need a...

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Dutton is a racist cabbage + action points for Australians

Australia’s super racist Immigration Minister, mouldy cabbage Peter Dutton, has a long documented history of gross racism. There’s the time he laughed about people in the Pacific losing their homes due...

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No Award goes to the movies: Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures tells the story of how African-American women helped put the United States in space. Margot Lee Shetterly’s book was optioned for film before it had even been published, so clearly I’m...

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No Award eats vegan schadenfreude pie

What a gift this month is! We have not one but two racist and/or whitewashed media adaptations being released — Iron Fist and Ghost in the Shell — and they’re both getting terrible press. What a shame....

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food, culture, and the personal instead of the political

On Friday, Steph went to a symposium on the urban politics of food. How on brand! Today she’s talking about some of the main themes (food as diversity, labelling as tool of racism, urban planning) and...

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on forgetting

I’ve spent more years of my life than not going to the Anzac Day Dawn Service. My dad was in the Air Force; he was there for 20 years. He never went to war; he never went further than Malaysia, where...

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forward facing whiteness

Aren’t you tired of this already? I’m tired of this. Liz and I were so excited to hear about the Science for Science Fiction conference being held in Melbourne in September. It’s being held by the...

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Continuum: First Aid for paper cuts

I was supposed to start with something nicer, rounding up my Continuum 13, but all I can really think about is the racial micro aggressions PoC experience at Australian conventions, particularly the...

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