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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Of Mice and Meh
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'In 2018, the dominance of male mediocrity in stand-up comedy makes me sigh. It's tiring sitting at shows where obvious analogy reigns. Shows in which audiences laugh hysterically simply on the comedian's entrance, way before he opens his mouth, way before a joke is structured, when you foresee an anticipated tsumani of a punch line roll in like a little swell. Dry, is the only rating I can award this type of comedy. Or as Aboriginal peoples often say, 'Gammin' i.e. fake, pretend, pathetic.'  (Publication abstract)

 

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    y separately published work icon The Lifted Brow no. 40 December 2018 15394714 2018 periodical issue

    'We acknowledge and pay our respect to all the Grandmothers, Mothers, Aunties, Sistas, and Sistergirls, Cuzzies and Tiddas gone before us, those lost too young, and those to come. We love you, your strength, knowledge, humility, grief and anger. Youse are all Most Deadly!

    'Shout out to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and editors who have worked with The Lifted Brow before this, and who held the door open for this edition.

    'Running the editorial as a collective for this issue of The Lifted Brow was important for many reasons. Too often as Blakfellas we are expected to work as lone rangers in white corporations and institutions, as the keepers of all knowledge, the go to on every ‘Aboriginal issue’, and the incompetent to lay blame with when things don’t go well. It is expected that we are happy to fit into the individualistic mindset of western capitalism, because you want that job, right? To keep a roof over you and your family’s head, right? To be all white, white?' (Editorial introduction)

         2018     pg. 66-67
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