What are the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a better future?
Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! explores the ramifications of Thomas More's term in a range of contexts: the possible and the improbable, the out of reach and almost realised.
How can we begin to imagine a better future without a full recognition of the past and a full recognition of the moral force of First Nations? And how can this examination and exchange take place in an era of quick assumptions and divides, alternative facts and cancellations?
Submissions are open now for Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning. Find out more here and submit via Submittable by 18 November 2021.
Nardi, you’ve made me realise the in between is figurative, where we can reach each other across space and time with words and love, but that it can also be physical.
In our latest Through the Window, Cameron Muir writes a letter to Yuwaalaraay author Nardi Simpson.
I see the corroboree of his work in the gathering of traditional knowledge and information and its artistic presentation. This knowledge, this information, was represented in all of his creations to tell the story of his people – creations that speak to their history and truth.
In our latest Through the Window, writer Angelina Hurley remembers her father, the renowned Aboriginal artist Ron Hurley.
In the queer community, we’ve been locked out before; now we’re locked down. We were prepared, perhaps, but we still feel it like the pain of pressing on a wound. The trick, it seems, is to feel it all but not mind so much.
In our latest Through the Window, writer and tsunami scientist Kaya Wilson reflects on the small joys and lost connections of locked-down living.
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