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The Campus Lowdown
RAYNA BLAND | NEWS Welcome to The Campus Lowdown! This news section of Grapeshot is your place to find campus related information,...
Oct 8, 2021

The Zen Tea Lounge Foundation’s Student Film and Music Competition
NEWS | NIKITA BYRNES Open from 1 July to 31 October 2021, the Zen Tea Lounge Foundation’s student film and music competition is asking...
Oct 8, 2021


Stories from SlavSoc
FEATURES | MQU SLAVIC SOCIETY SlavSoc is Macquarie University’s Slavic Society. “The Serbian boy” in Australia and “the Aussie boy” in...
Oct 2, 2021


Dishes of the Diaspora
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES Jennifer Le is serving you a taste of Vietnam. Chè ba màu (3 colour dessert) A plethora of colour, bursting full...
Sep 29, 2021

I Don’t Get It: Land back
ALLY CARTER | REGULARS Let's face it: Australia's prosperity and wealth are built on and benefit from Indigenous stolen land. The...
Sep 27, 2021

In Between Two Worlds
SOFIA IHSAN | FEATURES Melting ice cream, scattered snack packets and the deafening laughter and chatter drowns the ticking of the clock....
Sep 27, 2021

Book Review: The Bench by Meghan Markle and Christian Robinson
JODIE RAMODIEN | REPEAT OFFENDERS The Bench is a lyrical picture book that celebrates the bond between fathers and sons. It contains...
Sep 27, 2021

Afrofuturism and its Revolutionary Impact
ELEANOR TAYLOR | REPEAT OFFENDERS In his essay, Black to the Future, Mark Dery coined the term ‘Afrofuturism’ and defined it as follows:...
Sep 27, 2021


Film Review: Identity Crisis and Loss of Morality in Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS Japanese New Wave films aren’t your average mainstream films. Between the late 1950s to the 1970s, the...
Sep 27, 2021


Film Review: A Classic Horror Story is No Modern Horror Classic
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS For a Netflix Original film trying so hard to be a modern horror classic, you’d think the directors...
Sep 27, 2021


Get To Know Your SRC Representative: Ally Carter
JODIE RAMODIEN | FEATURES Interview with Allastassia Carter, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students' Representative at...
Sep 23, 2021


A Vietnamese Diasporic Lense
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES Jennifer Le snapshots her family’s celebration of this year’s Lunar New Year. How the dragon glides, Its flames a...
Sep 23, 2021


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OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES she stared into the mirror face raw and bare; if you stopped and stared she was ordinary, fair but- the way her...
Sep 23, 2021


Pop Culture Rewind: Sesame Street
JODIE RAMODIEN | REGULARS Come and play, everything's A-OK, friendly neighbours there, that's where we meet, can you tell me how to get,...
Sep 23, 2021

Challenge: Testing Out Face Masks
KY STEWART | REGULARS Hey divas! I know what you’re thinking, this isn’t your fab-tab Regulars Editor Eleanor Taylor or Harry Fraser but...
Sep 15, 2021

Fuelling Fantasies
TIFFANY FONG | FEATURES My mum is one of those badass, powerful women. She does her make up sitting on the floor in front of a full...
Sep 15, 2021

Tokyo Olympics Controversies
NIKITA BYRNES | NEWS Nikita Byrnes takes you through the black female Olympic athletes who were the subject of many restrictions during...
Sep 15, 2021

Talking Strong by Macquarie’s Pro Vice-Chancellor Dr Leanne Holt
RAYNA BLAND | NEWS Dr Leanne Holt, Worimi and Biripai woman and Macquarie University ’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy) has a...
Sep 15, 2021

The Campus Lowdown
JODIE RAMODIEN | NEWS Grapeshot got in touch with Macquarie University’s cultural societies to find out more about the communities that...
Sep 15, 2021


You Are Here: Villawood Detention Centre
CHARNEL RIZK | REGULARS I have been here. “Sheli sensli min rabitik, bet zammir el bab,” my father says to me in Arabic. Take your...
Sep 11, 2021


Writing on the Wall: Grief
SOFIA IHSAN | REGULARS I’m walking alone. Head down, I watch my feet scuffing across the wet ground, creating ripples in the water that’s...
Sep 11, 2021
Grapeshot acknowledges the Wallumattagal clan, of the Dharug nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was signed, and would like to pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
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