What happened after 9/11 to Muslim youth in Australia
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By Adalya Nash Hussein
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Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I have never felt more generationally aware than I do now. I don’t know if this is because of my own age (approaching 25) or the age we are living in (“and I’m proud to be a Millennial”). I sit on a generational cusp, by some metrics a Millennial, by others Gen Z. I’ve always had access to the internet, but it wasn’t wireless until my mid-teens. I remember a period when Facebook was cool, but I never had MySpace. I remember how things changed after September 11, 2001, but I do not particularly remember how they were before.
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When Evelyn Araluen and Jonathan Dunk, co-editors of literary magazine Overland, announced the shortlist for the magazine’s Nakata Brophy prize for Indigenous poetry last year, they received a letter of complaint. The point of contention? There were no men in the shortlist.
“We only had women and nonbinary entries,” says Araluen. “And it was our biggest year [in terms of entry numbers] for the prize.”
Only a few years ago, she says, female entrants to any poetry prize would have been hugely outnumbered by men – and Indigenous poets were few and far between.
Author’s poignant polio story in new anthology
Birthday girl: Fran Henke at age three in 1946 just before she contracted life-changing polio.
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HASTINGS author and artist Fran Henke has a chapter in the new Australian anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia.
The 320-page paperback has been published by Melbourne publisher Morry Schwartz’s Black Inc and is the fifth in a series of “Growing Up…” titles.
Released in early February, it has already been reprinted after attracting wide-spread interest and praise including for its editor Carly Findlay OAM, a Melbourne writer and disability activist who has a rare genetic disorder that affects her skin and hair.
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