Resistence is not a one-person job - @anatolitis.bsky.social at #FootscrayWestWritersFest #FWWF2026
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Don’t wait for permission or expect it to come, Yves Rees recommends. The people who achieve things are the ones who just do the work. And that find good collaborators.
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We have, all of us, in these times of polycrisis, a responsibility to be actively looking for and listening to the voices of people who have been oppressed or silenced - @anatolitis.bsky.social at #FootscrayWestWritersFest. #FWWF2026
‘Why not now? Why not me?’ were the questions that led Yves Rees to start Australia’s newest literary journal, Lantana - which aims to be a platform for writers to do radical imaginary work and shape the political narrative.
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The ‘Uyghur Resistance’ publisher Sam Biddle says a lot of publishers are scared of [powerful nations]. First and foremost, they didn’t want their work or message to be changed or censored - which self-publishing allowed them to do.
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Kirsty Wilson from Readers and Writers Against the Genocide is that the power of the collective is in its members - in each person bringing and doing whatever they can.
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