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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


Mob: Ngulu
ALLY CARTER | REGULARS I stare at the face of the woman standing in front of me. She has hazel eyes, high cheekbones and dark hair from...
Sep 11, 2021


Illustrated: What Your Face Mask Says About You
KY STEWART | REGULARS What your face mask says about you: The single-use blue surgical mask You are a stickler for the rules. You don’t...
Sep 11, 2021


Newsflash: The Peace Festival
RHYS SAGE | NEWS From the 16th – 26th of September this year, Raising Peace will be holding events celebrating the United Nations...
Sep 11, 2021


Newsflash: Stay at Home and Study
RAYNA BLAND | NEWS Gladys Berejiklian’s stay-at-home order for Sydney has meant that students for Semester 2 will return to online...
Sep 11, 2021


Newsflash: Ash Barty’s Wimbledon Win
NIKITA BYRNES | NEWS On 10 July, 2021, 25-year-old Ashleigh ‘Ash’ Barty defeated former Czech world champion Karolina Plíšková at...
Sep 11, 2021


Newsflash: Clothing the Gaps Re-Branding
NIKITA BYRNES | NEWS The nationally-renowned business and brand, Clothing the Gap, has been forced to add an “s” onto the end of their...
Sep 11, 2021


1000 Cases Tomorrow
SALIHA REHANAZ | NEWS On Saturday 24th of July, the empty streets of Sydney’s CBD were bombarded with over 3500 anti-lock down...
Sep 11, 2021


Those Who Wish Me Dead Will Make You Wish You Watched Something Else Instead
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS Those Who Wish Me Dead will make you wish you stayed at home and watched a 90s action thriller instead....
Sep 6, 2021


Judging A Book By Her Cover
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES I call this piece ‘Judging a book by Her cover.’ This piece is in line with the theme of Funhouse being about the...
Sep 4, 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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