In a Barbie World

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Braddon Snape: Internal pressures
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Faye Neilson

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Looking on, listening in: Wendelien van Oldenborgh's Bete & Deise
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John Mateer

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Butcher Joe's multiple world Stephen Muecke
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Stephen Muecke

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Hadley's Art Prize 2021
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Archie Barry: Entangled listening
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Jacqui Shelton

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Meg Porteous: Dissociative bodies
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Amy Weng

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Adam Cullen: Acute misanthropy
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Wes Hill

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James Newitt: Working with the trouble
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Hayley Millar-Baker: I will survive
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Claire G. Coleman

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Fictional Barbies (Mattel trademarked doll) are presented in the dark side of suburbia spinning a queer identity for Ken and Barbie.

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The Promise of Fruit: Kirsty Darlaston, Brenda Goggs, Lucia Pichler, Karen Russell
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