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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Be unapologetically you! An interview with Bec Hyland
How do we challenge cultural expectations that tie beauty to self worth?
Mona Community
- Sep 18
- 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
- Aug 28
- 5 min
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
Mona Community
- Aug 14
- 7 min
Stories of isolation: Five women share their experiences
Our second collaborative piece this month comes from five women sharing their stories of isolation.
Mona Community
- Jul 25
- 7 min
Goodbye to work
...none of them looked at mentally adjusting to the finishing work side of things.
Mona Community
- Jul 10
- 3 min
Sounding Board
... I later wonder how many questions they asked of women in that room.
Mona Community
- May 22
- 5 min
Hot Buttered Toast
My grandmother was one who sat easily with silence. She was the one who taught me to knit.
Kat
- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
Why more young women running for local council matters
“Young people feel like they don’t have their voices heard so having a young person to represent them I think is a good start.”
Kat
- Nov 12, 2021
- 5 min
LGA Elections Spotlight: Meet Jo Roberts
“Nobody else is going to do this for us, it’s up to us. We either find a way to move forward together, or we fail."
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.
Kat
- Aug 5, 2021
- 4 min
Your community needs you: Why more rural women should run for local government
When women run for public office, they get elected. The bad news is, not enough are running, especially in the regions.
Kat
- Jul 14, 2021
- 3 min
I'm learning to smile again
For Dinah, writing is a form of therapy, 'optimistic ramblings' she calls it. Writing keeps her connected to herself.
Kat
- Jun 29, 2021
- 4 min
Coleambally kid next generation in female representation
“It’s wonderful to see such sustained interest in politics from young women."
Kat
- Jun 3, 2021
- 3 min
What's it going to take to break the glass ceiling?
Helen Dalton and Vanessa Keenan are 'firsts': the ones that make the first cracks in the glass ceiling that limits women's upward movement.