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jaclyn_sixminutesforme's review
4.0
“Sweatshop Women communes with the Spirit and it is within this second volume that the Spirit of ourselves as women of colour are fully embraced. We love the struggle, we love our Folk, we love ourselves. Regardless.”
I really enjoyed this anthology, reading the poetry and prose by the women contributing to this was insight into the future of Australian literature. The works and perspectives are engaged in discussions of identity and ancestry and belonging, snapshots of moments in classrooms or workplaces or public transport reclaiming and holding space. Of liminality, and celebrations of this measured with the precarity of its faultlines. The works weave between celebrations of culture and grappling with the everyday micro-aggressions and overt racism of white Australia—the refusal to pronounce names correctly, schoolyard teasing about lunch smells. Families fusing with marriages, and how personal identity is battered by this like a buoy in a storm.
While there was an infinite complexity to these stories and poems, three standouts for me personally were Desi Self-Care by Gayatri Nair, Arab Mother Guilt by Sara Saleh, and Ghost Skin by Lieu-Chi Nguyen.
I really enjoyed this anthology, reading the poetry and prose by the women contributing to this was insight into the future of Australian literature. The works and perspectives are engaged in discussions of identity and ancestry and belonging, snapshots of moments in classrooms or workplaces or public transport reclaiming and holding space. Of liminality, and celebrations of this measured with the precarity of its faultlines. The works weave between celebrations of culture and grappling with the everyday micro-aggressions and overt racism of white Australia—the refusal to pronounce names correctly, schoolyard teasing about lunch smells. Families fusing with marriages, and how personal identity is battered by this like a buoy in a storm.
While there was an infinite complexity to these stories and poems, three standouts for me personally were Desi Self-Care by Gayatri Nair, Arab Mother Guilt by Sara Saleh, and Ghost Skin by Lieu-Chi Nguyen.
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