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Book Club - Racism Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry

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Today I wanted to highlight some incredible writing from Western Sydney.

And there is a wealth of incredible writing that comes out of western Sydney. Just recently I’ve received the collection Second City - Essays from Western Sydney published by Sydney Review of Books, The Magpie Wing Max Easton’s debut novel about football culture and growing up in the west and now that I mention it I realise I haven’t yet brought in one of my favourite releases of 2021; The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammad Ahmad. I will absolutely get back to that, it’s an incredible novel. But today I want to talk about a collection from the literary collective that Michael Mohammad Ahmad founded. The collection is entitled Racism - Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry, it’s out now from Sweatshop Literacy Movement and brings together more than forty writers detailing through their art what racism is in Australia.

To tell you about Sweatshop I can’t really go past their own description of their work and mission…

“Sweatshop is a literacy movement based in Western Sydney which is devoted to empowering culturally and linguistically diverse communities through reading, writing and critical thinking.”

Sweatshop have an wide and growing range of titles that broach the stories we so seldom hear coming from individuals and communities that are too often talked about but not to. They recognise that it is not enough to simply empower communities to tell their stories, those stories have to be out there for people to access, to read and reflect on.

I want to try and tread a very fine line here, because I don’t want to just be another person talking about these stories; I want you to read them and hear these voices for yourself.

The works in Racism pose a simple but volatile question; “Are we a nation of racists?” I can already hear the angry tweets being penned; of course we’re not, a few bad apples, we might have been but now equality. Sentiments that make us feel better, but in the middle of a lockdown that has seen a huge disparity in response and restrictions between East and South West, well I want to hear more than just the dominant narrative.

The stories in this collection relate experiences and narratives that open up the range of individual experiences of this thing we call racism. Through short stories, poetry and micro fiction we are shown the slurs and the looks, the overt acts and the sycophantic attempts at inclusivity.

What becomes clear through these stories is that while racism is exemplified in individual acts, it is established and codified in the ways we both see and choose to remain blind and silent when people are treated as other, whatever the supposed reason.

That’s enough from me. I want to leave the last word on this collection to its collectors. Winnie Dunn, Stephen Pham and Phoebe Granger are the editors of Racism and in their introduction they lay out that they “seek to provide a personal and intimate record from first nations people and people of colour across all ages, that demonstrates the pain, despair, confusion, complexity and rejection that comes from being the ‘other’.”

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Today I wanted to highlight some incredible writing from Western Sydney.

And there is a wealth of incredible writing that comes out of western Sydney. Just recently I’ve received the collection Second City - Essays from Western Sydney published by Sydney Review of Books, The Magpie Wing Max Easton’s debut novel about football culture and growing up in the west and now that I mention it I realise I haven’t yet brought in one of my favourite releases of 2021; The Other Half of You by Michael Mohammad Ahmad. I will absolutely get back to that, it’s an incredible novel. But today I want to talk about a collection from the literary collective that Michael Mohammad Ahmad founded. The collection is entitled Racism - Stories on Fear, Hate and Bigotry, it’s out now from Sweatshop Literacy Movement and brings together more than forty writers detailing through their art what racism is in Australia.

To tell you about Sweatshop I can’t really go past their own description of their work and mission…

“Sweatshop is a literacy movement based in Western Sydney which is devoted to empowering culturally and linguistically diverse communities through reading, writing and critical thinking.”

Sweatshop have an wide and growing range of titles that broach the stories we so seldom hear coming from individuals and communities that are too often talked about but not to. They recognise that it is not enough to simply empower communities to tell their stories, those stories have to be out there for people to access, to read and reflect on.

I want to try and tread a very fine line here, because I don’t want to just be another person talking about these stories; I want you to read them and hear these voices for yourself.

The works in Racism pose a simple but volatile question; “Are we a nation of racists?” I can already hear the angry tweets being penned; of course we’re not, a few bad apples, we might have been but now equality. Sentiments that make us feel better, but in the middle of a lockdown that has seen a huge disparity in response and restrictions between East and South West, well I want to hear more than just the dominant narrative.

The stories in this collection relate experiences and narratives that open up the range of individual experiences of this thing we call racism. Through short stories, poetry and micro fiction we are shown the slurs and the looks, the overt acts and the sycophantic attempts at inclusivity.

What becomes clear through these stories is that while racism is exemplified in individual acts, it is established and codified in the ways we both see and choose to remain blind and silent when people are treated as other, whatever the supposed reason.

That’s enough from me. I want to leave the last word on this collection to its collectors. Winnie Dunn, Stephen Pham and Phoebe Granger are the editors of Racism and in their introduction they lay out that they “seek to provide a personal and intimate record from first nations people and people of colour across all ages, that demonstrates the pain, despair, confusion, complexity and rejection that comes from being the ‘other’.”

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