Oumi Karenga-Hewitt
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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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 29, 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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