Lauren
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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Mona Community
- Feb 4
He is right
This week's blog post is a timely reminder that the most dangerous place a woman can be is in her own home.
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Kat
- Jan 29
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...
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Oumi Karenga-Hewitt
- Jan 20
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 25, 2022
- 4 min
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.
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.
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
- 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.
Lauren
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
Eagle Eye
‘Pull over.’ He directed, indicating a shoulder adjacent to the car. She couldn’t, not now. She couldn’t take her eyes off the mirror...
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