Category: Features
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Can I Offer You Some Lo-Fi Beats in This Trying Time?
By Shajara Khan On 22 February this year (aka, a lifetime ago), YouTube suspended ChilledCow’s livestream without any reason and terminated his account, creating a storm of outrage towards YouTube. The channel owner, only known as Dimitri, was left with the impression that his channel was lost to the copyright gods. However, the response from […]
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‘52 Films By Women’ Challenge: What Is It, and Why Do We Need It?
By Jo Bradley I first discovered the #52FilmsByWomen challenge on Twitter in 2018. As a feminist, a movie critic, and a female director, this challenge sat at the intersection between many of my passions, and I was instantly keen to learn more. The challenge, started in 2015 by Los Angeles’ Women in Film, is simple: […]
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The Personal Cinema of Paweł Pawlikowski
By Kevin Ding His films are laced with lyricism, often evoking deep emotions without sentimentality. They are old-fashioned yet timely, personal yet universal. This has made Paweł Pawlikowski a formidable force in world cinema. He was born in 1957 in a Poland that was undergoing grand political changes. At age fourteen, he and his mother […]
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Reflecting on the International Transgender Day of Visibility
By Axel-Nathaniel Rose Content warning: discussion of transphobia It was the International Transgender Day of Visibility three weeks ago, and since then I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be ‘visible’ as a transgender person, now and through history. I’ve also been thinking a lot about hygiene. In people, places, and things, […]
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What COVID-19 means for an international student
By Petrina Yuen I felt like I had no choice. I sat on the floor tossing tossing into my bags I looked up at the poster I had just put up just barely two weeks ago, I didn’t grow up in Sydney it felt like home and now I had to leave. I came to […]
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Pastoral Leases and the Australian Landscape
By Claire Angelica In the 1800s, the British Crown was faced with the problem of governing a surge in squatting in Australia. Squatters were settlers who squatted in what was called the Crown’s “waste lands” (which meant outside the colony boundaries). They would graze cattle and sheep and with the growing wool industry, squatting became […]