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Essays/Criticism
“By Signalling Nothing I Remain Opaque” Liquid Architecture
“House Style Lifestyle, or: Same. Same. Same. Same. Same. Same.” Cordite Poetry Review
“Six Contradictory Polemics” Overland Literary Journal
“Cursed Images” Footscray Community Arts Centre
“So Much This” Kill Your Darlings
“Who’s Your Normie?” LIMINAL
“Two Way Mirrors” Runway #38: SPECTACLE
“The Streets are Haunted” Westerly Magazine
“The Limits of Compassion” Meanjin
“Worldly Placelessness” The Lifted Brow
“(In)visibilised: On Race and Sexual Harassment” Feminartsy
“Crafted Nostalgia: The Romanticisation of a Handmade Economy” Kill Your Darlings
“Eating Multiculturalism” Peril Magazine
Technology/New Media
“Novelists Still Don’t Know How to Talk About the Internet” Kill Your Darlings
“ERROR: NOT FOUND” Arts Gen k(not)
“Discontented By Content” Meanjin
“Reclaiming Anonymity” Kill Your Darlings
“Demanding Convenience” Kill Your Darlings
“Speed Tests” The Lifted Brow #44: Digital Intimacies
“Recurring Amnesia” Kill Your Darlings
“Fake It Till You Make It” Matters Journal #3
“Unfaithful to Their Origins” Kill Your Darlings
“Artificial Intelligence and the Virtual/IRL Divide” Model View Culture
“On Selfie Shaming” Overland Literary Journal
Books
“Grim Aussie tale avoids trauma porn territory: on Paddy O’Reilly’s Other Houses” The Guardian
“Main Character Syndrome: on Tao Lin’s Taipei” Liminal Review of Books
“On Second City: Essays From Western Sydney” Mascara Literary Review
“On Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This” The Saturday Paper
“On Jamie Marina Lau’s Gunk Baby” The Saturday Paper
“Turn Off Tune Out Drop Out Sell Out Buy In: Cher Tan on Virginie Despentes” Sydney Review of Books
“On Anwen Crawford’s No Document” InDaily
“Abolish The Border: Cher Tan on S.L. Lim” Sydney Review of Books
“Nobody’s Home: on George Haddad’s Populate and Perish” Meanjin
“Best Books of 2020” The Saturday Paper
“On Clarissa Goenawan’s The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida” The Saturday Paper
“Good Migrant/Bad Migrant: Cher Tan on Peter Polites” Sydney Review of Books
“On Sweatshop Women: Volume Two” The Saturday Paper
“Uncanny Valleys: Cher Tan on Elizabeth Tan” Sydney Review of Books
“Technophilia and Its Discontents: on Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley” Meanjin
“On Intan Paramaditha’s The Wandering” The Saturday Paper
”On Yumna Kassab’s The House of Youssef” The Saturday Paper
“Museum of The Self: on Nathan Jurgenson’s The Social Photo” Kill Your Darlings
“Feeling Seen: on Akiko Busch’s How To Disappear” Meanjin
“Class Clown: on Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate” The Lifted Brow
“Idle Minds: on Jenny Odell’s How To Do Nothing” Kill Your Darlings
“To Freedom That Blooms On Stumps: on Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism” The Lifted Brow
Culture
“Book Runner Melbourne: Meet The Man Subverting the Algorithm One Book at a Time” The Age
“Precious Metal” The Big Issue
“Beyond Borders” The Big Issue
“Upfront with Grace Dlabik” Acclaim Magazine
“A Lecture & a Laugh: Queenie Bon Bon on Sex Work & Performance Art” SBS
“How Coming Out Has Changed” Into
“Worlds Within Worlds” Kill Your Darlings
“How Queer Tattoo Artists are Creating Community” i-D
“In Spite of Police Raids, Feminist Groups are Thriving in Indonesia” VICE
“For Trans & Queer People, Massage Therapy Can Be a World of Pain” Broadly
“When Memes are Therapy” GOOD
Interviews
“Brian Castro” LIMINAL
“Rama Parwata” LIMINAL
“S.L. Lim” LIMINAL
“Vidya Rajan” LIMINAL
“Jia Tolentino” The Lifted Brow
“Eugenia Lim” LIMINAL
“John Young Zerunge” LIMINAL
“Natesha Somasundaram” LIMINAL
“Eugenia Flynn” LIMINAL
“Sonia Nair” LIMINAL
“Sangeetha Thanapal” LIMINAL
“Shoeb Ahmad” LIMINAL
“Creatrix Tiara” LIMINAL
Art/Performance
“A Hopeful Escape: Nina Buchanan” Disclaimer Journal
“Art After Spectacle: Chunxiao Qu” Art Guide Australia #145
“Crocodiles” The Age
“Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded has finally hit the stage. But is it good?” The Age
“Working Towards a Politics of Borderlessness” Hyperallergic
“Horny Ghosts” The Age
“In Search of Lost Scroll” The Age
“IT ME TIME Traveller Beta Live x Social Dis Dance” The Age
“Clean – an unsensational documentary about an extraordinary life” Guardian Australia
“Laurinda – a disappointingly uneven adaptation of a beloved book” Guardian Australia
“Amrita Hepi: Dance Dance Revolution” Art Guide Australia #136
“The Cost of Convenience: EASY RIDERS” Aphids
“Diaspora, Psyche: John Young” Bunjil Place
“Suppressed Fictions: a review of The Mysterious Lai Teck” Peril Magazine
“Complex Bodies: a review of Metal” Witness
“Organised Chaos: a review of Torch The Place” Witness
“Notes on Diversity” LIMINAL
“Meeting Points series: im/modesty feat. Shoeb Ahmad” Arts Centre Melbourne
“Place / Psyche / Power” Sister Gallery
“Keeping Busy” Cool Change Contemporary
“A Time For Communal Sovereignty” Runway Conversations
Personal Essays
“GOOD GOOD BAD BAD” Meanjin
“Lingua Franca” Portside Review
“On Writing” Meanjin
“Reading Underwater: Reckoning With Myself as a Woman of Colour Amid a White Literary World” Catapult
Politics
“Fighting For Human Rights In a Country Where an 'Illegal' Skype Call Can Land You Behind Bars” VICE
“Seeking Welcome While Australian” Overland Literary Journal
“Who is the Real Enemy?” Overland Literary Journal
“Feminism, Not Fempirism” Overland Literary Journal
“Mental Health Services: We Can Do Better” Right Now
“Is Australia a Racist Country? Wrong Question” New Matilda
“On the Exceptionalism of the "Good" Refugee” Overland Literary Journal
Music
“Shonen Knife” The Age
“Dreaming Alternative Futures” Gusher Magazine
“Bloodletter: "What Binds Us Musically, Politically and as Friends" Difficult Fun
“Divide and Dissolve: A Politics of Care and Resistance” Difficult Fun
“Noise in Her Head” Swampland Magazine #4
“Meet the DJ Collective Subverting Sydney's Club Scene” lnwy.co
“Bung Is Beautiful: Adelaide's Newest Festival Embraces the City's Bungness” Noisey
