Culture

Art By Abbie Cooper By Evangeline Yong  Sometimes it seems as if Melbourne and its inner suburbs simply materialised as a full-blown metropolis, complete with city skyline, streets ordered in a perfect grid, and concrete sidewalks interspersed with manicured gardens. Perhaps it’s because Melbourne is a young city in comparison to London or Rome, its oldest buildings dating from the 1800s, its main attractions not castles or cathedrals but graffitied alleyways like Hozier Lane, cosy cafes on Degraves Street, vintage warehouses in Brunswick, diminutive bookshops in Fitzroy, and restaurants on almost every street and laneway boasting cuisines from all over

By Xenia Sanut In May 2018, Australian journalist Ruby Hamad wrote an article for The Guardian about the regular interactions she saw between white women and women of colour, where a woman of colour confronts a white woman who has done something harmful to her, but instead of receiving an apology from the white woman, she is met with denial, accusations and claims that the woman of colour is hurting her. The woman of colour ends up feeling guilty, ashamed and frustrated, and so this toxic cycle continues. The article quickly went viral and triggered reactions from people worldwide, for

By Ong Jie Yee Timely and riveting, Michal Aviad’s ‘Working Woman’ is a powerful story of ‘sexploitation’ that is all too common to women in the workplace. Following significant critical success in the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018 and the Melbourne International Film Festival in August, Israeli director Michal Aviad’s Working Woman articulates the anxieties of a married working class woman struggling to provide a better life for her family at the cost of sexual harassment by her boss. Orna (Liron Ben-Slush), the titular ‘working woman’, is forced to seek a new employment opportunity after her husband’s restaurant business