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Empathy single work   poetry   "When you call islamophobia, I listen"
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Empathy
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    y separately published work icon Cordite Poetry Review Brownface no. 100 Winnie Siulolovao Dunn (editor), Roberta Joy Rich (editor), 2021 21050962 2021 periodical issue

    'This issue of Cordite Poetry Review in particular focuses on the racist act of Brownface, especially in Australia. Brownface stems from the dehumanisation of Black people in the form of Blackface. Award-winning Afro-Caribbean-Australian author Maxine Beneba Clarke writes that Blackface was created when ‘White performers liberally applied black greasepaint or shoe polish and used distorted dialogue, exaggerated accents and grotesque movements to caricature people of African descent’ in the name of ‘art’.' (Winnie Siulolovao, from Editorial introduction)

    2021
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