Kat
Shut up woman! What creating a women’s magazine has taught me about womanhood
After three years and two hundred submissions, Kat Vella has learned some things about women's existence in rural and regional Australia.
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Mona Community
- May 24
Starting Young
As we continue to look back on all the wonderful young people we met during Youth Week in April 2023, this week Mona publishes the...
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Mona Community
- May 18
Our Art is a Voice
Mona publishes the multimedia work of Annabelle Shakleton, a young artist who uses her talent with the brush to paint a political message.
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Mona Community
- May 8
Sisters in Ag
This week Mona publishes the photography of Jemima Nugent, a promising young artist who documents female champions of the ag industry.
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Mona Community
- May 2
A Safe and Honest Place
As we look back on all the inspiring young people we met during Youth Week in April 2023, we publish a series of talented young artists.
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Kat
- Apr 28
“No one cares as much as you do” and other frank advice for self-doubt
Writing is hard. I had been expecting, naively, that after years of doing it, it was bound to get easier.
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Mona Community
- Apr 16
The Bed
This week, Mona shares a poem that explores the expression of female sexuality and the evolving intimate experience of a relationship.
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Lauren
- Mar 21
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
- Dec 4, 2022
- 7 min
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.
Mona Community
- Nov 30, 2022
- 6 min
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’...
Mona Community
- Nov 25, 2022
- 4 min
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.
Mona Community
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
Memories and Mementos
A beautifully told story of the acceptance of the cycle of life and passage of personhood.
Mona Community
- Sep 18, 2022
- 4 min
The moment I became aware of 'pretty privilege'
What does it mean when women's power is tied to how we look?
Mona Community
- Jul 25, 2022
- 7 min
Goodbye to work
...none of them looked at mentally adjusting to the finishing work side of things.
Kat
- Jul 17, 2022
- 4 min
An essay is still a story: Tips for improving your creative non fiction
Kat's top tips for composing a powerful but simple personal essay.
Mona Community
- Jul 10, 2022
- 3 min
Sounding Board
... I later wonder how many questions they asked of women in that room.
Mona Community
- May 22, 2022
- 5 min
Hot Buttered Toast
My grandmother was one who sat easily with silence. She was the one who taught me to knit.
Mona Community
- Sep 2, 2021
- 3 min
Do you think about Afghanistan?
I have a Middle-Eastern cookbook, purchased in the 1970’s but it doesn't tell the stories behind the recipes.
Mona Community
- Aug 26, 2021
- 3 min
#Metoo: Call it out
I would like to think that we are now living in an enlightened time, where workplaces are respectful and harassment-free. Perhaps not.
Mona Community
- Aug 19, 2021
- 3 min
Confronting the Big C
Am I expected to keep working till I drop? Include me in the list of the 1 in 3 marriages that ended in divorce. So, I massage my own cramps
Lauren
- Aug 15, 2021
- 5 min
Let's Get Real About 'The Bachelor'
An examination of the toxic dating mindsets behind the popular reality TV series 'The Bachelor'.
Mona Community
- Aug 12, 2021
- 7 min
Finding beauty in the broken places
I wish I’d understood that what I possessed was a unique and profound skill to see the world in a way others didn’t.
Mona Community
- May 26, 2021
- 3 min
Never quite grow up
If we revered elders as many cultures do, would people still feel the need to claim they feel young, or try to look young?
Kat
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
Is to be childfree really a choice?
Until the thought of becoming a mother became a reality to me, I never really considered the weight of it.
Mona Community
- Apr 26, 2021
- 3 min