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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Words Are Weapons
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'Words are weapons. Stories are dangerous, for they define who we are, they define our history; they can be weaponised. Stories and history are tools and weapons of war. Stories can be used as part of genocide, because if you say a people are extinct other people might believe it. Stories can be part of genocide because you can use stories to erase a culture.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Online 2021 21154349 2021 periodical issue 2021
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Words vol. 80 no. 4 Summer 2021 23539484 2021 periodical issue 'The December issue of Meanjin is titled: Words. It features a special series of non-fiction pieces in which Australian writers respond to one-word titles...' (Publication summary) 2021
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