Category: Poems

NEM ISSO, NEM AQUILO / NEITHER THIS NOR THAT

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.

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

POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin reminisces about her hometown of Sombor, Serbia.

POEM: Zoe Alexandria ponders the comforts of the celestial while missing someone far away.

POEM: Ranjitha Krishna explores the tumult of learning and unlearning painful lessons handed down by White, heteronormative power structures.

POEM: Kiran Bhat describes the turbulence of living in the spaces in-between.

POEM: Pip Sheehan meditates on their natural surroundings, feeling and listening for the many histories imbued therein.

POEM: Kiran Bhat describes his experiences debating at school and the impossibility of navigating the arbitrary feedback of a racist voice.

POEM: Kiran Bhat reflects on his grappling to learn his ‘mother tongue’ amid discouragement and dislocation.