Sitting down with Honi Soit, Dunn spoke to the weight and joys of such firsts, her journey in writing, and what it means for me to be able to tell her own story, in a way, in Dirt Poor Islanders, and dispel the countless representations that seem to indicate that there is one way to look or be Tongan in Mount Druitt.
Browsing: Profiles
With the release of Puan (2024), co-directed with María Alché, Honi Soit sat down to ask Naishtat about comedy, time, existentialism, and their place in the ever-growing and perplexing canon of New Argentine Cinema.
Peripathetic leaps into the future, but not without holding our hand as we navigate the quick-changing present. God knows we need it.
We all have something to learn from him. Passions can transcend age. We should value hobbies more; they anchor us to communities.
. Our challenge is to keep things going as they are. I’m not an ambitious person who wants to create a Murdoch media empire, I would just like to keep doing what we’re doing: publish a video every month which we’ve been doing for the last eight years.
Well, we know it’s not a risk because we know Blak women are deadly.
There is this prejudice towards a story about a character; this is what happens to them and then it ends. That is the parameter of a novel. I don’t think you can actually tell the story of a community with one person.
After years of navigating linguistic deceit, Pasco has developed a certain form of paranoia — a forgotten side-effect of frequent crossword doses.
“Our experiences aren’t homogenous, there is not one way to be Palestinian or Arab…our literature is moving forward and the rest of the world has to catch up.”
Daniel Park is running as an independent candidate who centres his campaign on making USyd more fun and more inclusive. Drawing on his own experience as an expat, Park said he was motivated to run for the board because he has “always been surrounded by different cultures” and wants the university to be a vibrant space that reflects its diversity.
