Stan Grant is Indigenous Affairs editor for the ABC and Chair of Indigenous Affairs at Charles Sturt University. We are so used to telling ourselves that Australia is a white country: am I now white? The reality is more ambiguous … To borrow from Franz Kafka, identity is a cage in search of a bird.’ -Stan Grant, The Australian Dream To be honest, for an Indigenous person, it can feel like a betrayal somehow – at the very least, a capitulation. It is a blinding self-realisation that collides with the comfortable notion of who I am. ‘The idea that I am Australian hits me with a thud. In doing so, he makes the case for a more capacious Australian Dream. Grant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life, and argues eloquently that history is not destiny that culture is not static. Yet this flourishing co-exists with the boys of Don Dale, and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cultural, sporting, intellectual and social – that we see today. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia.
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The Supermassive (2023) one-shot will see Radiant Black meeting the new Rogue Sun, along with new superhero Dead Lucky. After that, spinoff mini Radiant Pink was launched in December of 2022, with Meghan Camarena returning to write, joined by Melissa Flores, after co-writing Radiant Black #12, Pink's spotlight issue. It is written by Cherish Chen, who also co-wrote Radiant Black #6, Radiant Red's spotlight issue. In addition, a spinoff miniseries, Radiant Red, launched in March of 2022. The series is the first entry in what would later become the Massive-Verse, which would formally launch in February 2022, a year after the launch of Radiant Black with the Supermassive special, which features Radiant Black teaming up with Inferno Girl Red and Rogue Sun. and when he touches it, it somehow gives Nathan a cool black and white costume and gravity powers! But while the "Radiant" might seem like a blessing at first, it doesn't belong to him. And now he's forced to move back in with his parents in his hometown of Lockport, Illinois.īut one night, while out drinking with his childhood friend Marshall, Nathan encounters some sort of miniature black hole. Nathan Burnett is thirty years old and already a failure - he failed at becoming a successful writer in Los Angeles and only managed to wrack up over thirty thousand dollars in credit card debt. Radiant Black is a 2021 superhero comic book by writer Kyle Higgins and artist Marcelo Costa, published by Image Comics. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade No one is allowed to leave even asking questions can get you killed. What's outside is a thousand times worse. Perhaps it’s the dialogue that reads better in Reboot, or maybe it’s the romance that dances around on the sidelines? Do I simply gravitate towards books with more romance rather than more action? They both have strong female characters, but Wren is far more believable and likeable than Cassie. I think Tintera writes the female voice far better than Yancey did. The writing style appeals to me a little more in Reboot, but it’s not that different to The 5th Wave really. I’ve been trying to work out why my experiences with Reboot and The 5th Wave were so different. It captured my attention right from the start and kept me hooked all the way through (although the ending was a little soft). If not for a very exciting and close game of football, I may have gone close to finishing this book in one sitting. I therefore took my ARC of Reboot along to my stepson’s soccer game with very little joy in my heart. I was disappointed with The 5th Wave, although my husband quite enjoyed it. I’m so over teen/YA dystopian stories trying to grab onto the coattails of The Hunger Games. I can’t tell you how sceptical I was about this book. In the wake of his being immortalized in the 1962 David Lean classic “Lawrence of Arabia” a host of other biographers rode Aldington’s coat tails, making the titillating claim that he had been both homosexual and sadomasochistic. The claim was first made by author Richard Aldington 20 years after his death, controversial at the time because none of Lawrence’s friends or family supported it. Often in recent years, the life and achievements of Lawrence have been somewhat overshadowed by controversial claims published in posthumous biographies concerning his sexual orientation, accusations that he had been a closet or self-repressed homosexual. As I was refreshing my memory last night, I remembered that there have been questions about Lawrence’s sexuality. I have a special interest in the First World War, so this is not the first time that I have researched Lawrence. As usual with a historical movie, I began to read more about Thomas Edward Lawrence. Last night I watched “Lawrence of Arabia” on Turner Classic Movies. The only problem is they can’t decide what to be: a boy or a girl? A bird or a fish? A flower or a shooting star? At school, though, they must endure inquisitive looks and difficult questions from the other children, and have trouble finding friends who will accept them for who they are. And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape they can imagine. In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a hill. A relevant tale of love and acceptance that can find a home in any children’s collection.” – Kirkus Reviewsįeatured on CTV’s The Social and in The New York Times “ This book’s themes can resonate with any child who feels excluded (or excludes others) and can also open up conversations about nonbinary gender identities. From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea The book is short, but it still manages to portray snippets of what high school is like, especially in a small town where gossip travels fast. So, how did the movie hold up? Capturing high school life At its core, Stargirl is about high school life, the struggle of figuring out who you are as a teenager, and how to decide your values when you receive conflicting messages. Though the school doesn’t know what to make of her at first, they quickly grow to adore her, but when Stargirl proves too weird, the students turn on her. Stargirl is told from the first-person perspective of Leo, whose small high school in Mica, Arizona is turned upside down by the arrival of a new student: the crazy clothes-wearing, ukelele-playing, pet rat-owning Stargirl. But only this year did the beloved book get a movie adaptation, which released as an exclusive on Disney+ on March 13. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli was first published in 2000, and has been a staple of the YA scene ever since. But YA books have been around for much longer. When most people think of YA (young adult) books, what typically comes to mind are series from within the past ten years or so: The Hunger Games, Twilight, The Fault In Our Stars. This cluster of thinkers stand in tension with the readings the class members will be doing before they arrive that day. I’ll be talking about the work of Homa Hoodfar, Lila Abu-Lughod, Asma Barlas, and Leila Ahmed. I think it’s a good example of an unexpected model of where one version of feminism may be going. These thinkers have charted paths where Islam is not contradictory to feminism and neither is feminism contradictory to Islam. There are three major strands I’m going to talk about: a historical approach, an exegetical approach focusing on Quranic interpretation, and a postcolonial approach. I’ll talk about how Islamic feminism engages with the language of Islam unapologetically. Islamic feminism was also a tendency to structure a version of feminism around a set of concerns that fit Muslim women. I’m going to talk about how Islamic feminism, as a diverse movement, emerged against what it saw as Western feminism’s lack of diversity in perspectives. I’m interested in alternative models of feminism. In early 2009, Wallace reacquired Prime Books, and relaunched it as an independent publishing house in May that year. Later, in 2003, he licensed the company to Wildside Press, and moved from Ohio to Pennsylvania, as a full-time senior editor. Wallace then launched Prime Books to publish a few of the orphaned books, including the award-winning City of Saints and Madmen, by Jeff VanderMeer. In mid-2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing company, Imaginary Worlds, though it soon went into bankruptcy. He also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio. In 1999, the Cosmos Books name was licensed to Wildside Press and output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. Tubb, John Russell Fearn, and Sydney Bounds. Harbottle, and released Fantasy Annual, a paperback magazine of British authors including E.C. Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with Philip J. He has been nominated a number of times by both the Hugo Awards and the World Fantasy Awards, won three Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards, and has served as a World Fantasy Award judge. Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, Clarkesworld Magazine, The Dark Magazine, and Fantasy Magazine. Sean Wallace at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention |