Lauren
End of an Era
As the Mona project draws to a close after three years, each of the women behind the magazine reflects on what Mona has meant to them.
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Mona Community
- Sep 9
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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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 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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