Gayatri Nair is one of the many women of colour who are part of Sweatshop—a literacy movement out of Western Sydney that aims to empower ‘culturally and linguistically diverse communities through reading, writing and critical thinking’. We talk about how a community like this can support new writers, why critical feedback on your work is important (even at the early stages) and hear Gayatri read some of her poems for the very first time from Sweatshop Women Volume Two.
Sweatshop Women is funded by: The Australia Council for the Arts, The Packer Family Foundation, Crown Resorts Foundation, Red Room Poetry and Information and Cultural Exchange Centre and Campbelltown City Council.
Show notes
- Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
- America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
- Interviews with Ellen van Neerven & Alison Whittaker
- my dad asks, “how come black folk can’t just write about flowers?” by Aziza Barnes
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