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Just around the corner from Ipswich train station is an intimate bar that serves as a gallery, workshop, and live music venue, as well as a reminder that intersectional, inclusive spaces can be found everywhere. I’d come to see a punk music show but discovered a beautiful expression of the joy of community. The walls […]
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Fanfiction is an integral part of any fandom, including the God fandom. For centuries, people have been writing literature and poetry inspired by their favourite book, the Bible, but do they count as fanfiction? In its simplest definition, fanfictions are stories created by fans about existing media. Typically, fanfiction authors use the same plot, lore, […]
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GOMA’s newest exhibition, Wonderstruck, is a presentation of artworks by major Australian and international artists as a journey through six themes of wonder. Officially opened with a vibrant two-day festival (June 28–29), the show is perfectly timed for school holidays. Curators Tamsin Cull and Laura Mudge describe it as a call to notice the awe […]
Continue ReadingXoda, Permit me the hope To continue crying alone Written by Ari Deshpande Irani Views: 34
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I deafened the moon out of orbit when I perched by your door, so I could only figure the shadow of Stitch on your coconut fibre mat. It was 1 am, the world had shifted to tomorrow, and I had no bars- so I pecked. Your musk met me before you did- Summer holds both […]
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We are thrust into the Earth’s atmosphere. As trail blazers, In hopes of finding success and glory, Of finding Achilles or Heracles. Up there, We find Icarus. Skin melting, Wax dripping from bones protruding from his spine. Icarus smiles with skin welts that tear, And oozes, Dribbling golden blood down his cheeks. There is skin […]
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When I saw Batman Vs Superman in 2016, I swore off DC. I felt like the characters that were so ingrained into popular culture had actually turned out to be these evil, sinister shadows of what they were meant to be. Now, nine years later, and seven months into the trenches of a DC obsession […]
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Little dots suspended in the air with wire- Is this the multiverse? If so, which one is ours? The section of strings without dots- Are those universes yet to be made? Shadows of dots on the wall- Are they the ghosts of dead universes? How long will it take for us to see their deaths? […]
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Shot off into space, the message coasts on rays emitted from the sun, radiating out deep into the cosmos. Ones and zeros, carefully contained in individual photons, rising and falling in the waves of black. The message dances through space, ducking and diving and swirling around. Jumping from place to place, shifting from wave to […]
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My heart races, thumping a staccato rhythm through my chest. My palms slicken and sweat seeps through the fibres of my t-shirt. Mum and dad sit across the dining table from me. Our dirty plates sit in front of us almost cleared of the meat and three-veg that was mum’s specialty. I had barely tasted […]
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