Author: belongingmag

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POEM: Frankey Chung portrays a part of the dialogue at play between his various cultural identities.

THOUGHT PIECE: Dunja Kaczmarek looks back on 20 years of sports in her life and reflects on how it helped to form her cultural identity.

REFLECTION: Vesna Cvjetićanin remembers a trip on Brisbane bus line 196.

POEM: Shehzad Hathi recollects conversations had over chai.

POEM: Liz Bennett takes a nostalgic look back on walks with her grandfather, amongst the Casuarinas.

POEM: Daiane Moret recounts the impacts of her family selectively remembering their White history over their Black.

POEM: Ilyas Papantoniou remembers his early childhood like it was a lifetime away.

REFLECTION + MUSIC: Searching for stories about her immigrant grandparents, Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou finds meaning in music and song.

POEM: Merrindahl Andrew contemplates country and the habitation of stolen places as a non-Indigenous Australian.

REFLECTION: Win Yee Tan reminisces with her sister on the 17th anniversary of their migration to Australia.