MEMOIR: Boripat Lebel remembers the nature reserve he and his family used to explore in the hinterland of Perth, Australia.
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Orthodox Easter eggs – Coming together to share traditions
FOLK TRADITION: Vesna, Dunja and Ella take us through their egg-colouring process for Orthodox Easter.
Bridging two worlds: Identity crisis of a returned expat
REFLECTION: Teresa Sadkowsky shares her experiences reconciling her Japanese and Australian cultural identities after an extended time spent living overseas.
Equinox / Ravnodnevnica
POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin ponders the changing of the seasons, imagining the different sights and sounds that signal equinox on both sides of the world.
The language of health
REFLECTION: Vinh Tran shares a touching experience of the intimate space he was brought into by a common language.
SubjectACT interview – Talking migration and belonging with Nathan Gubler
INTERVIEW: Dunja Cvjetićanin and Anita Patel sit down with Nathan Gubler of SubjectACT to have a chat about be:longing.
Chinese fried noodles
RECIPE: Wei Chen shares with us his mother’s recipe for Chinese fried noodles.
Pre Posle
PROSE POEM: Dunja Cvjetićanin takes us through a stream-of-consciousness exploration of her efforts to connect to contemporary life in the Balkans, from a distance.
Belonging or be-longing – for all that is familiar
REFLECTION: Marwa Rida explores the process of finding a sense of home in Canberra, Australia, 15 years after migrating.
Home not home
THOUGHT PIECE: Annabel Boyer brings us a personal reflection on the struggle to belong in the place where you were born.
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