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Satara Uthayakumaran is a writer and student at the Australian National University.

Kamala gave me hope, but could a woman of colour really lead Australia?

Kamala gave me hope, but could a woman of colour really lead Australia?

Look at what’s happened to Australian women of colour with political ambitions. It’s dispiriting, but we must live in hope.

  • by Satara Uthayakumaran

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I was heading off to study abroad, but now my phone is alive with alerts
Opinion
Racism

I was heading off to study abroad, but now my phone is alive with alerts

I can’t help but envy the Anglo-Saxon students in my cohort going on exchange. For them, travel warnings take the form of earthquakes or avalanches.

  • by Satara Uthayakumaran
I’m not cancelling my favourite books, despite my dark skin troubling their authors
Opinion
Racism

I’m not cancelling my favourite books, despite my dark skin troubling their authors

I can’t cancel the stories of my childhood. Great stories can survive the sins of their writers.

  • by Satara Uthayakumaran
The day I turned 14, two of my disabled sister’s friends were found dead

The day I turned 14, two of my disabled sister’s friends were found dead

It is impossible to explain the devastating impact of this horrific act of violence in our community. But this royal commission report will, we hope, be a game-changer.

  • by Satara Uthayakumaran
I lost my faith in God’s CV, so I did a reference check
Opinion
Religion

I lost my faith in God’s CV, so I did a reference check

I never would have thought a high school student from Sydney would be able to converse with two of the greatest theologians from the other side of the globe.

  • by Satara Uthayakumaran

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