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 24
- 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
- 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
- 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..."