Stories

In our first episode, Vuma Phiri shares the significance of fashion in her Zambian heritage—how clothing is more than just fabric, but a language of identity, culture, and storytelling.

I love solitude most days, listening to nothing but music and letting my imagination take root. Writing gives me immersion into a world of my own. I love how my fingers seem to move on their own when I get into a place in my head where words spill smoothly onto the screen.

Nothing quite moves or affects me the way theatre does—it is a living, breathing thing—and seeing some wonderful theatre in my early 20s while on an interstate trip solidified that this was where I needed to be.

I write to breathe. I write to make sense of a seemingly senseless world. I write to poeticise everything beautiful and horrible in the world and still, despite it all, inspire change and hope. I write for the next girl who dares to pick up a pen.

“I want kids to realise that we’ve all got the same things that intimidate us. To realise that you’re not on your own, I think that would help young people a lot… would help everyone a lot probably.”

Maria Gultiano shares her story of how trying to feel included, her “FOMO” (fear of missing out) at a mixed-genders onsen while living in Japan didn’t exactly go to plan.

Atlas Pillinger shares three very different bike rides around Perth and how they were informed not by the external environment, but by their own inner perspectives and feelings.

Pip Ward reflects on her how inability to trust easily as a child and the constant feeling of walking on eggshells continued well into her adult years.

Casey Mulder shares how many cups of tea and an unusual friendship with an elderly couple in the Kimberley taught her the wisdom of creating safe spaces for Aboriginal stories to be told.