Mona Community
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
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.
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Mona Community
- Nov 20
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.
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Mona Community
- Nov 14
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.
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Mona Community
- Oct 30
Memories and Mementos
A beautifully told story of the acceptance of the cycle of life and passage of personhood.
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Mona Community
- Oct 25
Meet the rural woman tackling tricky conversations for parents and tweens
When Shay Baynton realised adolescence was around the corner for her pre-teen, she wanted to somehow inoculate her from absorbing the...
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Kat
- Oct 19
REVIEW: big beautiful female theory
Grills reminds us again and again that there is no stage of a woman’s life where she can live without the public and personal scrutiny.
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Mona Community
- Oct 10
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.
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Mona Community
- Oct 3
Be unapologetically you! An interview with Bec Hyland
How do we challenge cultural expectations that tie beauty to self worth?
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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
- 2 days ago
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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
- Mar 25
- 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.
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.
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.”
Mona Community
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
'Unsaid Wish' and 'Honey and Glass'
Another talented Young Mona, Melina, aged 15, shares with us two poems she has written on unrequited love, longing and boys who meet...