Lateral Violence is an Indigenous arts thing

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Melanie Jame Wolf's Pop-Cultural Drag: The Chronopolitics of Labour, Libido and Image
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Published April 2021
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Apprehending the Multiverse: A Costumed Allegory for Four Percussionists Michaela Gleave's Cosmic Time
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Ann Finegan

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Michaela Stark: On Control and Beauty
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Alison Kubler

Published April 2021
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Cigdem Ayedemir
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Sumaiya Muyeen

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On art, fashion, purpose and more: Peggy Griffiths-Madij and Jan Griffiths in conversation with Alana Hunt
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Published April 2021
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From the clothes rack to the body of the wearer: Circumnavigate Kandos in our clothes
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Ann Finegan

Published April 2021
City of Unley
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Sarah Rodigari: Redressing the vernacular
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Abigail Moncrieff

Published April 2021
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The Mangkaja x Gorman Collection: A new wave of Indigenous art and fashion collaboration
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Belinda Cook

Published April 2021

Sam Cook is an artist, educator and currently the Director of The Dreaming: Australia's International Indigenous Festival. She writes incisively about the deep layers of 'lateral violence' in the Indigenous arts sector.

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