Mona Community
Be unapologetically you! An interview with Bec Hyland
How do we challenge cultural expectations that tie beauty to self worth?
Mona Community
- Sep 25
Meet WWAG's Artist in Residence, Sophie Chauncy!
Mona Editor Lauren caught up with Sophie Chauncy, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery’s current Artist in Residence this month.
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Mona Community
- Sep 24
Kat talks Farmer Wants a Wife with ABC Riverina
Kat talks patriarchy in country communities and how FWAW leans in to simplified, exclusive ideas of gender.
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Mona Community
- Sep 18
The moment I became aware of 'pretty privilege'
What does it mean when women's power is tied to how we look?
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Mona Community
- Sep 12
Farmer Wants a Wife is not a dating show, it's propaganda
How has this show not evolved in 12 seasons? Perhaps it has something to do with how we feel about farmers.
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Mona Community
- Sep 7
A Playwright's Pondering
This week, new Mona member Leonie Napier, shares with us her journey as the writer and producer of her play Bloodshed at the Banquet.
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Mona Community
- Aug 28
Mona has grown! Meet our new team members
Mona began with the core belief that when women come together with a shared passion and goal, worlds are changed
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Mona Community
- Aug 22
Creative Women on Tools
In the small rural town of Ganmain in New South Wales, two women have banded together to give women in their community great opportunities.
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Mona Community
- Aug 14
Stories of isolation: Five women share their experiences
Our second collaborative piece this month comes from five women sharing their stories of isolation.
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Mona Community
- Aug 10
Timeless Treasures by Issy Jinarmo
Jill, Narelle and Maureen share one of their creative collaborations, the story of a family torn apart by tragic secret. The...
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Mona Community
- Aug 7
The Birth of Issy Jinarmo
When COVID struck, three inventive women from far-flung parts of the country let their creativity run away with them.
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Mona Community
- Jul 31
Barbed Solitude
In Mona's final post about Women at Work this month, Eila Jameson-Avey shares her poem, 'Barbed Solitude' and the labour that inspired it.
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Mona Community
- Sep 18
- 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
- 7 min
Goodbye to work
...none of them looked at mentally adjusting to the finishing work side of things.
Kat
- Jul 17
- 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
- 3 min
Sounding Board
... I later wonder how many questions they asked of women in that room.
Mona Community
- May 22
- 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
Be Angry.
"We all need to be angry until we can all be safe." Mona contributor Sue reminds us that equality is a fragile thing.
Lauren
- Apr 22, 2021
- 5 min
The Women Who Wrote My Story
Mona team member Lauren shares how certain women authors have unveiled her world to her and how she fits in it.
Mona Community
- Apr 15, 2021
- 5 min
Feminist. A dirty word?
‘Feminist’ has been a problematic label in country Australia. Traditionally, it challenges ideals of femininity and conjures images of...