Poetics of Resistance’s Newsletter

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TRUST THE WOMEN MOTHER AS I HAVE DONE
On this date back in 1911, Australian and New Zealand women were the stars of the Women's Suffrage Coronation Demonstration in London. Daughters of…
DUDE, WHERE’S MY MUSEUM?
Future-fit? Turn and face the strange changes.
RECENT READING 3: the past as present and future
Museum curator Professor Dan Hicks writes about history, culture and why we need to change the way we think about the past. Part 3 of my trilogy about…
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TRUST THE WOMEN MOTHER AS I HAVE DONE
INTO THE MYSTIC: THE TRIUMPH OF CULTURE OVER MORTALITY AT WANARN
SETTLER CAPITALISM
TIME FOR TRUTH PART 2: DRIVEITLIKEYOUSTOLEIT
DAVE SANDS: how one photograph can talk to us about Australia's past, present and future
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, SIXTY YEARS ON
RECENT READING 2: You've got to fire up
Vivien Goldman's "Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz"
RECENT READING
In a world gone mad for distractions: some books that aren’t, from Kerouac to the Benin Bronzes via a Punky Reggae Party
SLEEVENOTES: FORAYS INTO MUSIC'S UNEXPLORED HINTERLANDS
At the Well of Longing: Rebecca Hancock's perfect music of imperfection
Remembrance Day, 11 November
Few have captured this day's meaning better than mariner and amateur artist William Cockell, who painted returning hospital ships in his home port of…
TUTJURANGARA MASSACRE: AUSTRALIA'S GUERNICA
Why won’t Australians look their past in the eye?
Janet Inyika on Maralinga: "We were the survivors"
On International Women's Day let's remember an activist and artist whose accounts of her lived experience of radioactive fallout counter official…
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, SIXTY YEARS ON
In 1964 The Beatles' first film took Beatlemania and made a hit movie out of it.... in glorious black-and-white. What to make of it six decades later?
TIME FOR TRUTH PART 2: DRIVEITLIKEYOUSTOLEIT
A referendum to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the constitution is almost upon us. Treaty and Truth might follow. Is Aboriginal and…
TRANSCENDENCE - a virtual exhibition
“Transcendent, with awesome majesty", (composer John Tavener's instruction to musicians, The Protecting Veil).
Poetics of Resistance’s Newsletter
Poetics of Resistance’s Newsletter
Words and images about history, art, music and related ideas, from a punk perspective... the poetics of resistance. By a historian, curator, record producer, writer, collector and chronicler.

Poetics of Resistance’s Newsletter

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