Stemming from a desire to put forward something exploring the realms of queerness and audio in poetic and unexpected ways, calling into question the heteronormativity of anti-racist, nationalist and anti-colonial organising; and the whiteness of queer spaces. Liquid Homelands conjures the ineffable nature of queerness, of diaspora and lineage, and the idea of a ‘home:’ acknowledging that these are deeply potent and affective experiences. it’s a play on the idea of representation politics being about ‘visibility’ and ‘embodiment’ - and proposes that, like liquid, queer bodies of culture have always been here, ever-present and needed
Crown Shyness by Darren Lesaguis - "An experimental and (non)fictional invitation to see myths and mythmaking as a form of queer storytelling. Home dwells in the languages we keep."---- Darren Lesaguis is of Bisaya and Tagalog descent, a former co-host of Race Matters, and community radio worker.
Time will bring us back by Aaqila - A stunning and expansive world conjured by Aaqila aka halalbutch ---- Aaqila is a writer, artist, DJ and community organiser based on Whadjuk land and sometimes Gadigal land. Their habitude operates towards providing tools for collective liberation beyond the tools of the institution; which manifests in different ways from the dinner table to the gallery. Their threads of research are drawn from Malay-Anglo subjectivities and move slowly through contemporary and ancestral understandings of gender, collective healing and embodied ritual. They have written for numerous publications across so-called Australia including Disclaimer Journal, un Magazine, Granville Centre Art Gallery, sweet pea and several more. They recently participated in the Muslim Poetry Project with Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the Asia Pacific Exchange Program with Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and Grey Projects in Singapore. They also perform and DJ semi-regularly under varying pseudonyms.