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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Oumi Karenga-Hewitt
- Mar 14
- 4 min
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.
Kat
- Mar 8
- 3 min
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.
Kat
- Jan 29
- 5 min
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...
Oumi Karenga-Hewitt
- Jan 20
- 11 min
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...
Mona Community
- Oct 10, 2022
- 7 min
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.
Mona Community
- Sep 24, 2022
- 1 min
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.
Mona Community
- Sep 12, 2022
- 4 min
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.
Kat
- Mar 25, 2022
- 5 min
Is it time to stop defending the 'good men'?
Two recent moments in my life have been bothering me lately...
Mona Community
- Nov 28, 2021
- 4 min
Transition Politics: Communities embracing change
I believe in the vision of an abundant, vibrant, inclusive and sustainable way of life.
Mona Community
- Sep 9, 2021
- 7 min
Why I boycotted the National Summit on Women's Safety
Survivor advocates do not want to be spoken for or on behalf of. We want to tell our own stories.
Mona Community
- Jun 21, 2021
- 2 min
Rural Australians want change to refugee policy
Asylum seekers are people like you and me. People with families, people with hopes and fears, people with names, faces and stories.
Kat
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
Give girls the choice: Time to stop forcing skirts on girls
How is it that girls today are still subjected to the same backward beliefs that forced my classmates and I to our knees 25 years ago?!
Kat
- Apr 14, 2021
- 3 min
A Seat at the Table
“I believed that if you wanted to make a real difference and be a part of positive change, you had to do it from within that system..."
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