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Finding Inspiration in Lost Places
This week, Emma Datson shares the art of recycling existing poetry and in the words we are surrounded by in our everyday lives.
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Mona Community
- Aug 31
On a Balcony Overlooking Torres Strait
This week, Mona features an experimental reflective piece by Ingrid Mason about a woman's experiences across the Pacific.
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Mona Community
- Aug 23
Leaning into Dangerous Conversations
On the back of the NSW Regional Futures Symposium in Western Sydney, Dubbo-based artist Kim V. Goldsmith asks what bold actions are needed.
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Mona Community
- Aug 18
Breaking Ground
This week, we visit one of our favourite interviews from Issue 03, 'Breaking Ground', an interview with the trailblazing Women in Cohousing.
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Mona Community
- Aug 12
The Poetry of the Everyday
This week, as Mona starts to explore some of the ways in which poetry is being transformed by new writers, we feature Emma Datson's work.
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Mona Community
- Aug 3
Issue Three - Editors' Favourites
This week, as the Mona team prepare for the official launch of Issue Three on 6th of August, the Mona Editorial Team reflect on their...
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Lauren
- Jul 27
The Collector
Mona's Lauren interviews Cara-Ann Simpson, an experimental multi-media artist who has had a long struggle with debilitating illnesses.
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Lauren
- Jul 20
Behind 'Unseen'
This week, Lauren speaks with the woman behind 'Unseen', Jacinta Parsons, about writing, sharing and courage.
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Lauren
- Jul 13
REVIEW: Unseen — the secret world of chronic illness
This week, Mona’s exploration of women’s experiences with chronic illness continues as editor Lauren reviews Jacinta Parsons' Unseen.
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Mona Community
- Jul 4
A Living Death: Life with ME/CFS
This month, Mona explores women's experiences with chronic illness, starting with Mel Ifield's experimental piece about life with ME/CFS.
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Mona Community
- Jun 28
(Sitting with) the Discomfort of Change
Dubbo-based artist Kim V. Goldsmith explores what a post-carbon economy means for our region and its inhabitants - human and non-human.
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Kat
- Jun 21
I was scammed for a fake abortion. Here’s why I don’t regret it.
Mona's Kat shares with us what she learnt after a recent request to donate money to cover the cost of a fabricated abortion.
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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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