Read on Twitter
‘I think for me, respect always comes first, and I prioritise cultural safety regardless of who I might be working with. I don’t think there is any one way to navigate power but to become aware of your own privilege.’ — @curiousother in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/nikki-lam
‘Organisations are scrambling to ‘diversify’ their staff and programs, usually offering tokenistic representation or churning through people without any long-term or sustainable support.’— @joshhfrancis in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/joshua-francis
‘Coming as someone who has the potential to both oppress and be oppressed, I find it’s difficult to frame 'ally' without referring to dichotomies where impulses surrounding power and purity come into play.‘— @mxcreant in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/cher-tan
‘I’m inspired by all the women of colour who speak truth to power every single day in this country, even when speaking out comes at the price of their safety and personal well-being.’— @son_nair in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/sonia-nair
‘In terms of navigating the industry, I just have found so much warmth and solidarity from other people of colour in the media.’ — @bhakthi in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/bhakthi-puvanenthiran
‘Nam Le’s The Boat is the most influential work to me. I read it when I was fifteen, and that was when it clicked for the first time — that literature could be about people like me; not just about white families.’ —Joey Bui in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/joey-bui
‘I’m sort of an ‘invisible migrant’, in that I generally ‘pass’ as Australian-born, and people are often surprised that I immigrated at fifteen.’— @adolfo_ae in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/adolfo-aranjuez
‘bell hooks writes in “choosing the margin” that within these violent spaces, marginalized groups are able to make creative space where we can resist in order to exist.’ — @jessicazmyu in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/jessica-yu
‘When I told people I was from Hong Kong, they often told me how well I spoke English, not realising it was the only language I spoke! I grew tired of being told I didn’t look Chinese.’— @mslcheng in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/melanie-cheng
‘I like to write back against established beliefs or generalisations depicted in existing fiction or historical texts, such as that of the ‘sinister Oriental’ or the ‘wanton’ Asian woman.’— @m_riwoe in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/5-questions/mirandi-riwoe
‘In Australian film and television, whiteness still seems to be the default—being any other race is seen as a novelty, and is often the defining trait of a character.’— @ElizabethFlux in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/elizabeth-flux
‘...being aware of the fact that I’m a woman of colour. That I am identified as an Asian woman in this industry and that I can define what that is, rather than have that definition put on me.’— @mingzhuhii in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/ming-zhu-hii
‘To be an ally is, in some sense, to be a conduit, to be a bridge, to stand in solidarity with people like us in some way but who aren’t us in other ways.’—Robert Wood in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/boundless/robert-wood
‘For artists of colour though, I think I do have some hard-learned advice, which is that gatekeepers do not know your world better than you, so don’t let them make you feel small.’— @vidyarrrr in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/vidya-rajan
‘New voices aren’t just important for the bodies they emerge from, the communities and countries they can represent or re-imagine, they’re important for the vitality of our art itself...’— @OmarjSakr in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/omar-sakr
‘I won’t ever fully belong in either category: not wholly Vietnamese because of my mangled Vietnamese-speaking skills and Australian accent, and not wholly Australian because of my Asian features and hard-to-pronounce name.’— @CamhaPham in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/camha-pham
‘The media is still really white—when you see someone of your background in the media doing something creative or just doing anything and getting kudos from it—not only their community but the greater community.’— @drawbyfour in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/rachel-ang
‘What does being a good POC writer entail? I don’t know! I like to think it’s about doing what’s honest and truthful for me, a person of colour.’— @shastradeo in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/shastra-deo
‘I decided quite early on against writing a book that was solely, or even fundamentally, about racial disparities.’—Vivian Pham in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/5-questions/vivian-pham
‘It’s hard sometimes for me not to view art as a luxury when I consider the history of my ancestors.’—Phuong Ngo in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/phuong-ngo
‘Reclaiming what was taken from me, valuing and honouring what I know, and connecting the past to the present is a form of decolonising in my practice and my cultural inheritance for my child.’—Mechelle Bounpraseuth in @liminalmag https://www.liminalmag.com/interviews/mechelle-bounpraseuth
