Eleanor Jackson Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and radio broadcaster and current Editor in Chief of Peril Magazine, which considers Asian Australian arts and culture. Kaytsen Jama Kaytsen is a Somali Australian artist and writer currently completing a postgraduate degree in Law. Kaytsen’s work draws upon her multidisciplinary perspective; focusing on the politics of language, space and belonging. Kaytsen’s first solo exhibition ‘Mapping Home: From Within and Without’ exhibited at Halka Sanat, Istanbul, in January 2016 http://www.halkaartproject.net/sergiler.html?id=1874 Azja Kulpińska Azja is a queer migrant from Poland currently based on the lands of the Kulin Nations. She is a Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner, zine-maker, community educator and emerging radio producer. She has facilitated dialogical theater projects in Australia, Solomon Islands and Poland that explored challenging narratives around migration, displacement, systems of oppression and other topics relevant to the communities she works with. She is a youth worker facilitating a support groups for young queer people in country Victoria, Sometimes she writes. Lian Low Lian Low is a writer, editor and spoken word artist based in Footscray, on Kulin Country, in Melbourne. She previously edited Peril - Australia’s leading online platform for Asian Australian writing, arts and culture. In 2015, she collaborated on the performance text of the Malthouse Theatre’s sold-out dance premiere of Do you speak Chinese? She also completed a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship and was a festival artist at the Melaka Arts and Performance Festival in Malaysia. She’s currently working on a memoir that traverses her travels to Singapore, Malaysia and life in Australia.
Hope Mathumbu Hope Mathumbu is a queer black South African-Australian. She is passionate about her community development and volunteers widely in various sectors, driven by her belief in the Black South African humanist philosophy of Ubuntu. Margaret Mayhew Margaret Mayhew is an artist and a proud para-academic who was raised on stolen Noongarabal land in northern NSW. In between her part time/casual jobs she does messy queer performance, soft sculpture and volunteer with Melbourne Artists for Asylum Seekers. Meiki English Meiki English is a Melbourne based writer, performer, and theatre maker. In 2010 she completed an honours degree in Linguistics, focussing on the spirit song languages of North West Arnhem Land. Since then, in between working as a teacher, tutor, and education writer, she’s been exploring embodied performance practices including ensemble physical theatre and contemporary circus. She keeps thinking she’s moving on from words, but every time somebody breaks her heart, a poem falls out. Nicole Monks A Wajarri Yamatji woman from WA, Nicole Monks is a trans-disciplinary artist and designer of Aboriginal, Dutch and English heritage currently based in Sydney. Her Practice is informed by her cross-cultural identity within the current epoch. Nicole has exhibited at Boomalie Aboriginal Art Co-operative and in 2012, she presented her first international exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. In 2014 she exhibited at the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize and won the UNSW Art & Design Residency. Shauna Osborn Shauna Osborn is an award winning Numunuu (Comanche)/German mestizo artist, researcher and wordsmith. She earned a BA from the
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