MEMOIR: A rail trip through Europe reminds Vesna Cvjetićanin of her childhood in Yugoslavia, spent daydreaming near the train tracks.
Plam / Flame
POEM: Verica Delova Srma describes the mixing of embers from her past and present that keeps a fire in her going wherever she is.
Arranged
REFLECTION: Geetanjali Sharma grapples with her mum’s disconnection from her post-India world.
A difficult fear
REFLECTION: Sanjaya Fernando recounts a recent interaction, pondering the effect that internalised fears can have on interpersonal relationships.
why’d you write about me instead?
POEM: Abeir Soukieh explores the silencing of minority voices with misplaced advocacy.
BLADO-RÓŻOWY BŁĘKIT / PALE PINK SKY BLUE
POEM: Agnieszka Berger ponders the transience of life’s interactions and the potency of recollecting them.
Farewell to my surname
REFLECTION: Dunja Cvjetićanin farewells her beloved surname, on the eve of welcoming another.
Interview – Talking health in cross-cultural spaces with Win Yee Tan
CROSS-CULTURAL HEALTH: Win Yee Tan discusses the delivery of
cross-cultural community health programs in NSW, Australia.
What’s in a name?
REFLECTION AND POEM: Abeir Soukieh reflects on names, and on how much it can mean when people make an effort to pronounce them correctly.
Parenting the parents
POEM: Jolly Bhattacharjee shares a poem that explores the changing roles in the parent-child relationship in places ‘in-between’.
