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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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...
Mona Community
- Dec 4, 2022
- 7 min
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.
Mona Community
- Nov 30, 2022
- 6 min
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’...
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
- Nov 20, 2022
- 3 min
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.
Mona Community
- Nov 14, 2022
- 4 min
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.
Mona Community
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
Memories and Mementos
A beautifully told story of the acceptance of the cycle of life and passage of personhood.
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
- Oct 3, 2022
- 5 min
Be unapologetically you! An interview with Bec Hyland
How do we challenge cultural expectations that tie beauty to self worth?
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.
Mona Community
- Aug 28, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 7 min
Goodbye to work
...none of them looked at mentally adjusting to the finishing work side of things.
Mona Community
- Jul 10, 2022
- 3 min
Sounding Board
... I later wonder how many questions they asked of women in that room.
Mona Community
- May 22, 2022
- 5 min
Hot Buttered Toast
My grandmother was one who sat easily with silence. She was the one who taught me to knit.
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...
Lauren
- Dec 7, 2021
- 14 min
Stand By Your Man
She cursed herself for wearing the tired apron she had found amongst the meagre belongings of her mother-in-law.
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