Tahney Fosdike is a regular contributor to Neighbourhood Media, Sydney’s newest community-focused, hyperlocal media platform. Connecting people through the stories that matter most.
“Transgender people, the targets of the neo-Nazis at the recent anti-trans rally in Melbourne, Jews, or other oft-demonized communities should not have to face situations where this evil is allowed to happen with police having no legal avenue to stop it,” said Michael Barnett, the co-convenor of Aleph, a Melbourne-based advocacy group for LGBTQ+ Jews, after the March rally.
As Uncle Archie Roach listened to Kee’ahn perform their soulful Better Things, he closed his eyes and cried.
It was the fourth episode of his Youtube series Kitchen Table Yarns, a program initiated to support emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander singer-songwriters, released in late 2021.
I spent Spring break in Marseille with my partner and his classmates.
A very short vlog from a short weekend away in a very grey Spring to Rouen, Normandy. I spent most of it working, late on my laptop, but loved this cosy Airbnb, watching Enzo hop around, and just slowly moving through this region, patiently waiting for warmer weather to come.
I ‘hmm’ an eyebrow scrunch whenever I hear the term Outsider Art. I’m not alone – not many like this term anymore. It hardly captures the complexity of belonging, determines any true social peripheries around art, or reflects contemporary language on marginalisation in the arts. But it holds on even without fanfare. When it pops up, I flip between discomfort to confusion, thinking: who’s driving the conversation (it’s certainly not the artists)?