This article in English A rapper e atriz Queen Latifah fez história quando ganhou um Grammy por seu hit inovador, “U.N.I.T.Y“, em 1995. A canção protestou contra a violência doméstica e a objetificação da sexualidade feminina negra. “U.N.I.T.Y” iniciou uma conversa na comunidade afro-americana sobre violência e agressão contra as mulheres. Também estabeleceu que as mulheres negras… Read more »
Arundhati Roy came to prominence when her first novel, The God of Small Things, won the 1996 Booker Prize for literature. She has gone on to write several works of fiction and non-fiction. Roy is an outspoken, internationally popular anti-globalisationist and Indian feminist. Her latest book, The Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, is a collection… Read more »
A significant theoretical contribution by Marx is the idea that workers are alienated from the product of their labour. Workers produce things, but at the end of the day it is the capitalist who owns what they produce. Uncharted Waters is an important new book which features periods in Australia’s history when workers have collectively… Read more »
Melbourne Workers Theatre (MWT) is a cutting edge theatre company with a brief to produce work “for, with and by working class and disenfranchised communities.” Andrea James, artistic director for the company says, “our theatre is rude, it’s naughty and it’s un-Australian. We’re hitting where it hurts.” James explains, “as the nation steels itself for… Read more »
Bob Brown — environmental activist, turned Senator — has loomed large on the Australian political landscape for nearly three decades. In 1983, when the first issue of Outrage, a new gay and lesbian magazine, hit the streets, I was on the editorial board. We considered our interview with Brown to be something of a scoop…. Read more »
It’s been three years since Stiff Gins released their debut album, Origins. Kingia Australis, their latest offering, has been well worth the wait. When band member Emma Donovan (yes, cousin of Australian Idol Casey Donovan) left to pursue a solo career, the band had to rethink its approach. Their first album had a happy-go-lucky feel…. Read more »
My hometown, Guilford Connecticut, had one African American family. The only other family of colour was from Puerto Rico, brought in as cheap labour for Pinchbeck’s prosperous rose farm, just down the road from my house. We kids went to primary school together. Our education system didn’t provide much for special needs, so my eighth… Read more »
What do you know about Helen Keller? Most likely that she was blind and deaf and overcame huge obstacles to learn to communicate by working with a dedicated teacher, Anne Sullivan. What you may not know is that she was a socialist activist, a feminist and fierce opponent of World War I. She was also… Read more »
Singing can be a very dangerous activity in West Papua. In 1984 the bloated bodies of musicians Arnold Clemens Ap and Eddie Mofu were washed up onto a beach. They’d been tortured and killed by the Indonesia military. In 2001, Sam Kapissa died in suspicious circumstances, described officially as food poisoning. Many West Papuans believe… Read more »
For my Bar Mitzvah I received, along with some fountain pens and Israeli Savings Bonds, a few certificates informing me that, in Israel, trees had been planted in my honor. We were taught that Israel was an empty, unpopulated desert. As a young teen, I was repeatedly shown films about the horrors of Auschwitz, Dachau,… Read more »
