Culture

Words by Robina Art by H.Hidai   All of you may ask yourselves these questions from time to time. Likely you come up with different answers about hopes.   What does hope mean? Have you ever had hopes in your daily life? How can you keep your hopes in difficult situations?   As you all know the structure of a human is made from spirit and body, and both of them have a serious need to be hopeful and the ability to be cheerful. If you think about something in an optimistic way, it can give meaning to your life

Words and Art by Huang Yanchao   Yanchao's Melbourne   It’s been two and a half years since I had set foot on Melbournian soil. I had called this city home for almost two years, leaving abruptly just as the pandemic began to unfold. I remember booking my air ticket hastily and leaving this city. I packed my items for storage haphazardly in hopes that I could continue the life that I was leaving for another day. But that day didn’t come. International travel bans and work life kept me from returning and I could only finish my degree in

Words and Art by Lottie Van Wijck   Glancing through my wardrobe, the desire to be trendy, buy local, be cost-effective and convenient, and the unquenchable thirst to go to every garage sale and Fitzroy market, all seem to call out to me. From the garments that hang from coat hangers to those folded, unworn at the bottom of my drawers, I start to see my  interaction with the mammoth forces of globalisation as they twist and constrict around me as a consumer, but also, me as a person.  Conscious consumption can feel tricky and murky. Just when you think