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Finding Inspiration in Lost Places
This week, Emma Datson shares the art of recycling existing poetry and in the words we are surrounded by in our everyday lives.
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Mona Community
- Aug 31
On a Balcony Overlooking Torres Strait
This week, Mona features an experimental reflective piece by Ingrid Mason about a woman's experiences across the Pacific.
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Mona Community
- Aug 23
Leaning into Dangerous Conversations
On the back of the NSW Regional Futures Symposium in Western Sydney, Dubbo-based artist Kim V. Goldsmith asks what bold actions are needed.
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Mona Community
- Aug 18
Breaking Ground
This week, we visit one of our favourite interviews from Issue 03, 'Breaking Ground', an interview with the trailblazing Women in Cohousing.
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Mona Community
- Aug 12
The Poetry of the Everyday
This week, as Mona starts to explore some of the ways in which poetry is being transformed by new writers, we feature Emma Datson's work.
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Mona Community
- Aug 3
Issue Three - Editors' Favourites
This week, as the Mona team prepare for the official launch of Issue Three on 6th of August, the Mona Editorial Team reflect on their...
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Lauren
- Jul 27
The Collector
Mona's Lauren interviews Cara-Ann Simpson, an experimental multi-media artist who has had a long struggle with debilitating illnesses.
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Lauren
- Jul 20
Behind 'Unseen'
This week, Lauren speaks with the woman behind 'Unseen', Jacinta Parsons, about writing, sharing and courage.
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Lauren
- Jul 13
REVIEW: Unseen — the secret world of chronic illness
This week, Mona’s exploration of women’s experiences with chronic illness continues as editor Lauren reviews Jacinta Parsons' Unseen.
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Mona Community
- Jul 4
A Living Death: Life with ME/CFS
This month, Mona explores women's experiences with chronic illness, starting with Mel Ifield's experimental piece about life with ME/CFS.
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Mona Community
- Jun 28
(Sitting with) the Discomfort of Change
Dubbo-based artist Kim V. Goldsmith explores what a post-carbon economy means for our region and its inhabitants - human and non-human.
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Kat
- Jun 21
I was scammed for a fake abortion. Here’s why I don’t regret it.
Mona's Kat shares with us what she learnt after a recent request to donate money to cover the cost of a fabricated abortion.
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Mona Community
- Jun 28
- 7 min
(Sitting with) the Discomfort of Change
Dubbo-based artist Kim V. Goldsmith explores what a post-carbon economy means for our region and its inhabitants - human and non-human.
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
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.
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