'We are thrilled to launch our first issue as Mascara’s new team, after almost one year since our last issue ‘Covid Contingencies’. It has been difficult to keep track of time amidst all the challenges we are facing in our communities on a local, national and international level. These challenges that have permeated our lives, our screens, our minds and our writing.' (Anthea Yang & Monique Nair : Editorial introduction)
Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
Divya Venkataraman reviews Motherhood by Sheila Heti
Tamara Lazaroff reviews Peace Crimes by Kieran Finnane
Epigraph: Looking for a place to live. Looking for a job. You begin to doubt your judgment, you begin to doubt everything. You become imprecise. And that’s when you’re beginning to go under. You’ve been beaten, and it’s been deliberate. The whole society has decided to make you nothing.
– James Baldwin
You wanted to fight for a cause
Then go out and love someone
-Gang Of Youths
