World's Best Son

The Cowboy returns in ‘World’s Best Son'

ArtHuw BradshawSeptember 18, 2023cartoon, cowboy, son, father, comic, art

When you appeared in my dreams, I thought I saw you in the field.

An ode to past relationships and the ghostly apparitions of memories that are ever present as time goes on.

ArtBonnie HuangSeptember 18, 2023identity, photography, art, memory, desires, transient, liminal

Definition of Man

I am terror, peril, and spectre, all at once.

ISSUE 09, LiteratureJoan de la KagsawaSeptember 17, 2023man, identity, queer, literature, art, opinion, coming of age

On the Chinese campus canteen

The Chinese campus canteen is an overlooked institution, providing sustenance and representing the deep-rooted tradition of communal eating.

Place, RecessLizzy KwokSeptember 13, 2023chinese, food, chinese food, food writing, campus, canteen, culture

The dark economy of McBucks

In conclusion, fuck McDonald’s. Never work there. Never encourage your kids to work there either. If I’m ever desperate for cash, would I go back? I wouldn’t bet on it.

Culture, ISSUE 09Edward GaySeptember 13, 2023sydney, mcdonalds, maccas, mcbucks, corporate greed, corporate, labour

Sandstone Futurism

Sandstone Futurism is neither a proposal, nor a hypothetical solution, but rather, an inevitable utilisation of our environment.

Culture, ISSUE 09Felix AshfordSeptember 13, 2023architecture, sydney, sandstone, futurism, visionary

Hard times for Mr Dickens

Eventually, he was lost to the mists of time, and a Charles Dickens Statue diaspora sprawled across Sydney.

CultureAriana HaghighiSeptember 13, 2023Charles Dickens, statue, sydney, literature, art, forgotten, ariana, haghigi, ariana haghighi

Building Morticia

Unlike Vampira and Elvira, Morticia is a wife and mother, but it goes without saying that she represents much more than that. She wants it all, and refreshingly, she never asks why she shouldn’t have it.

FilmChloe AtkinsonSeptember 13, 2023Vampires, Morticia, gothic, Elvira, Vampira

Uncloaking witchcraft: exploring Paganism as a Muslim

Real-life paganism is beyond the blood, drama, and telekinetic miracles on television and is rooted in natural connection to the Earth’s seasons.

CultureMisbah AnsariSeptember 13, 2023australia, wiccan rituals, witch, self-reflection, perspective, islam, paganism, muslim

tape-eater

what it is to become a dream.

Literature, ISSUE 09Leon KaragicSeptember 11, 2023creative writing, poetry, clare, philosophy, dreams, prose, leon, karagic, leon karagic

Twinning

Talk to any twin long enough and you find shared experiences emerge — the same plot points and canon events that carry across people and shape who they are.

Film, ISSUE 09Harry GaySeptember 11, 2023twinning, siblings, film, family, comedy

The First Supper

The mountains will bare themselves and our hands will receive.

Literature, ISSUE 09Clare GimSeptember 11, 2023creative writing, korean, poetry, food, family, clare gim, clare, gim

Evidence, Everywhere, All at Once: Law Revue 2023 Review

I often found myself wishing I had an extra eye to see the splendour of it all.

CampusImogen SabeySeptember 8, 2023law revue

The great first day

After all, the Quad was a great place to be lost in, every path ended in a class, a corridor or a gateway.

CampusEeshitaSeptember 6, 2023USyd, the quad, quadrangle, first year

You couldn’t look back if you tried: SUDS 'Eurydice' Review

A sensory aigís, expect an odyssey of emotion, talent and stagecraft.

CampusHugo HayAugust 31, 2023SUDS, theatre, student theatre, drama, Greek, eurydice

New Self Wales

The Sydney sulk followed me to the country.

PlaceKate SaapAugust 26, 2023Australia, nature, animals, perspective, Australiana, self-reflection

Anatomising the N64

Anatomising the N64 isn’t hard when you can peer into the bottle green motherboard, the nucleus of hypnotic rotating graphics, and the labyrinth that allows you to fire off that blue shell.

CultureAmelia RainesAugust 25, 2023culture, Nintendo, N64, nostalgia

From Guangdong to Goulburn

There is perhaps one thing that unites every Australian town — an institution that has been embedded in our national story since the 18th century: the Australian-Chinese restaurant.