On a day that is known to majority of Australians as ‘Australia Day’ a.k.a. ‘Invasion Day’ we attended Yabun, a festival that is an annual celebration of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander culture. With awareness about the true meaning behind the public holiday increasing over the past few years, this was an event that brought the indigenous […]
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On the 21st of January, 2017 women from all around the globe united in solidarity for the Women’s March in their respective cities. This is a movement that has come as a well deserved response to U.S President Trump’s recent inauguration and his clear lack of respect for women’s rights. Attacks on abortion services, reproductive healthcare […]
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I was lying in my bed in the morning, scrolling through my social media feeds as per usual, when I discovered that Fidel Castro had passed away. Now, this was not one of those David Bowie moments where you are minding your own business (i.e. peacefully reading on the bus), and suddenly the whole world […]
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I was on my second double gin and tonic when I started thinking about the U.S. election. Finally after this long, divisive and acrimonious election cycle, we were only days away from the end of the most hyped U.S. presidential campaign in history. It was only two weeks before Election Day when the media began […]
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FREE YOUR BREASTS! FREE YOUR MIND! On Sunday the 28th August, a few of us at Subvrt attended the International Go Topless Day rally in New York. As the closest thing to publicly protesting while topless in the publication’s birthplace of Sydney was the Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, we were sure that this rally […]
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