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The Power of Poetry: Simon Armitage — an experience
We entered the main space of the Roundhouse in the warm afternoon after an early dinner. We sat in the dark, light focused on the podium. The audience was large, plenty of old and young alike, quiet except for the occasional murmur in anticipation. It was almost time. We were all there for Simon Armitage. […]
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Qtopia: the queer utopia we’d love to see
The day I undertook my first shift as a volunteer at the QTopia pop-up exhibitions, the muggy air proved to be an oppressive adversary the whole walk to Green Park. Not only that, but it was also the day of the much-anticipated Mardi Gras Fair. Needless to say, I was expecting to go the entire […]
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Why did HinduSoc screen an anti-Muslim propaganda film?
On the 9th of June last year UNSW Hindu Society hosted a screening of Vivek Agnihotri’s controversial 2022 film The Kashmir Files in the Colombo Theatre, a film concerning the exodus of Hindu Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley following militancy from the region during the 1990s. The film was selected by vote by HinduSoc […]
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‘The Party’ is as much a celebration as it is a memorial
It’s hard to tell exactly what feeling permeates the ground floor of UNSW Galleries on this rainy Thursday. On Sydney World Pride’s website, The Party’s stated purpose is to “celebrate LGBTQIA+ nightlife and party culture in Sydney from 1973 to 2002.” Still, each person who shakes off their umbrella and enters the gallery space carries […]
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Sydney WorldPride: Bloodlines
In a tribute to names such as Keith Haring, Freddie Mercury, Leigh Bowery, and many other icons and artists lost to the HIV/AIDs crisis, explosive duo, The Huxleys, have created a multi-form art piece on display at the Carriageworks until the 5th of March. The Huxleys are all-in-one performance artists, designers, musicians, and filmmakers. ‘Bloodlines’ […]
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Iran investigates 900 schoolgirls’ poisoning
After nationwide protests erupted last year, resistance to Iran’s mandatory hijab law has exploded across the country. Women uncovering their hair an inch at a time. 900 schoolgirls have been poisoned by toxic gas on the 2nd of March 2023, in what many believe is a deliberate attempt to force their schools to shut. No girls have […]
