Angela Serrano Angela Serrano i(11132576 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Filipina
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1 Nothing Confidential : Me and Bourdain Angela Serrano , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , June 2018;

'‘I have the best job in the world,’ said the man who hanged himself in a hotel in Northeastern France on 8 June.

'It is 2014. Two years since I swore off Australian poetry: a couple of years earlier, I’d wandered into an erotic poetry reading in Brunswick, where an older white man patted himself on the back for fucking a local sex worker in Bali. I was the only Asian-background person in the room. I walked out thinking Australian poetry was unsexy at best, creepy and racist at worst.' (Introduction)

1 y separately published work icon Else but a Madness Most Discreet Angela Serrano , Sydney : Vagabond Press , 2018 13999814 2018 selected work poetry
1 Migration and Melancholia and Settler Discontentment Angela Serrano , 2018 single work criticism
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 March no. 85 2018;

'Filipino-ness is a weight I did not choose to be born with, but I carry on my back every day. As an immigrant to Australia, I am expected to uncritically wave the flag and do my birth country proud with my achievements; be the smiling migrant who hangs out at Australia Day parades, tags oneself on Facebook selfies beneath the Melbourne Central shot tower, lands a full-time office job, acquires property and authentic Louis Vuitton handbags, wears the trappings of aspirational middle-classness with the serenity of one who has ‘made it.’ To be a Filipino whose worth is tied up with her ability to demonstrate her gratitude and usefulness to society and to the narrative of a welcoming white Australia. Because to just be is never enough.' (Introduction)

1 Dan Disney and Kit Kelen, Eds. Writing to the Wire Angela Serrano , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 252-258)
1 y separately published work icon Innocent Eyes!: Ekphrasis and the Defiant Multiplicity of the Female Gaze Keira Hudson , Angela Serrano , 12197916 2017 anthology poetry essay
1 In Australia, It Rotates Counter-Clockwise i "Plok! And a galaxy of yellow brown muck splashed into being. No longer pristine, the water in the", Angela Serrano , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , April no. 20 2017;
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