This piece discusses the conservatorship in retrospective, the human rights implications, and the depiction of Britney Spears as an entertainer, while we are the “ones who observe.”
Author: Valerie Chidiac
“Now I would describe it as a state of regression, back into the child self. That same inner child we all are so desperate to get back once we reach adulthood.”
Born from the ink of Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali in 1969, is Handala, a faceless figure, back turned and hands tied, as consolidated in 1973. By depicting a 10-year-old Palestinian child who doesn’t grow up, al-Ali uses art to represent how the world — including the Arab world — has turned its back to Palestinian dispossession and deprivation of basic human rights.
“You can take out locations, our music, the way we dress, the way we adapted to the desert lifestyle, language, religion but you can’t show our fucking faces.”
I always say to my students that ‘Ancient History is everywhere’. It’s in our language and in some of our common sayings, our politics, our solar system, our art and architecture, our memes and all over popular culture.
By “record[ing] and distribut[ing] popular Australian theatre captures” with state-of-the-art digital technologies, the archives of live performance are preserved in the best quality possible.
Chair of the rally, Stephen Dobson told Honi Soit that MEAA for Palestine was formed around the sign-on statement for a stronger stance on Palestine within the union, and it is one of many actions taken after Lattouf was abruptly dismissed from her five-day contract.
Naturally, we were competing for movie ticket prizes and enjoying the view of asbestos signage from above.
It specified the increased and “widespread starvation”, indistinct from the “continuing egregious breaches of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”
Sweatshop is the first and only Western Sydney-based literary organisation in Australia that is entirely run by and for First Nations and POC communities with strong ties to the region.