Lauren
The Truth is Hard to Bear
This week, Mona editor Lauren reviews the newly released difficult read, Hard to Bear by Isabelle Oderberg.
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Oumi Karenga-Hewitt
- Mar 14
Infertility: A Woman's Problem?
One in six couples have fertility challenges. In my case, a cancer diagnosis meant that IVF was the only route to go.
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Kat
- Mar 8
No sorry, I won't speak at your IWD morning tea
Somewhere along my life I have been convinced that women must be extraordinary in order to be valued by others.
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Mona Community
- Feb 25
You
Lauren Watson shares her personal journey to motherhood, and all its challenges, with Mona's readers this week in her poem, 'You'.
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Lauren
- Feb 10
Submit to Mona... Who? Me?!
This week, Mona editor Lauren, interviews two of Mona's original contributors, artist Sharon De Valentin and author Robyn Simpson.
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Mona Community
- Feb 4
He is right
This week's blog post is a timely reminder that the most dangerous place a woman can be is in her own home.
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Kat
- Jan 29
What Iran and Afghanistan can teach us about allyship and solidarity for women in Australia
Kat Vella, Mona's non-fiction editor, explores how collective responsibility is essential in maintaining the rights and freedom for all...
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Oumi Karenga-Hewitt
- Jan 20
Why do women get the blame?
British expat and Mona's resident TV enthusiast, Oumi Karenga-Hewitt reviews ‘Harry & Meghan’ and explores why we've been conditioned to...
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Lauren
- Jan 4
An ally in the face of Australia's casual racism: A review of 'Memories and Elephants'
Mona Editor Lauren starts the new year with a review of Meaghan Katrak Harris’s memoir, Memories and Elephants: The art of casual racism.
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Mona Community
- Dec 17, 2022
The Art of Flash Fiction with Mara
Mara Papavassiliou sits down with Mona Editor, Lauren, to chat about crafting a perfect piece of flash fiction.
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Mona Community
- Dec 10, 2022
Dog Teeth
Mara Papavassiliou's flash fiction this week skilfully explores veiled threats that speak to an all-pervasive violence.
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Mona Community
- Dec 4, 2022
The unexpected fruits of foraging
By choosing to use what is available in season and in abundance, we break with habitual patterns shaped by consumerism.
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Mona Community
- Nov 30, 2022
The violence no one sees: leaving fundamentalism in rural towns
In Australia we tend to dismiss fundamentalist Christians as being free to ‘do their thing so long as they don’t harm us’...
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Mona Community
- Nov 25, 2022
Our Bodies Keep the Score
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Mona celebrates the survivors who share their experiences.
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Mona Community
- Nov 20, 2022
Your perspectives are important, we want to listen
We want to hear from you, our readers, on the things you think are important to you and your community.
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Mona Community
- Nov 14, 2022
REVIEW: Leaning out by Kristine Ziwica
Leaning Out presents a new way to view feminism, with the potential to bring heart, momentum and action to women across the divides.
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Mona Community
- Oct 30, 2022
Memories and Mementos
A beautifully told story of the acceptance of the cycle of life and passage of personhood.
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Mona Community
- Oct 25, 2022
Meet the rural woman tackling tricky conversations for parents and tweens
When Shay Baynton realised adolescence was around the corner for her pre-teen, she wanted to somehow inoculate her from absorbing the...
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Kat
- Oct 19, 2022
REVIEW: big beautiful female theory
Grills reminds us again and again that there is no stage of a woman’s life where she can live without the public and personal scrutiny.
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Mona Community
- Oct 10, 2022
The Picasso Century? A hundred years of weeping women
A Picasso exhibition that strips away the women to mere footnotes is to treat your female audience the same way Picasso treated women.
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