Mikayla Chadwick
Melbourne, Australia
“I am a Melbourne based writer passionate about feminist and queer representation and the rights of our community”.

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Post-Colonial Literature: The womxn who paved the way forward.
With the Empire being undermined by such a prevalent grief and the ruin of values previously held, modernist writers paved the way for generations to come with experimental forms that sought to respond to the widespread dissatisfaction in modern society. Among the modernist movement, were feminist writers, who began to publish works explicitly discussing feminist issues in modern society and challenge the systematic patriarchal structuring of Empire.
Podcasting: A Conversation with Peta Petidis from Thoughts & Feels.
The creative industry has rapidly become more accessible as technology has opened new avenues for people to make a career off their artistic passions. With this growth, however, comes a saturation of the market; thousands upon thousands of young people want to make their mark in the creative world, and are striving to do so without quite knowing how. I talked to Peta Petidis, co-host of the podcast Thoughts & Feels, who has worked in the creative industry since her days playing violin in high school and is now a writer for Grassfires and the Community Director of Muso.
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Post-Colonial Feminism: The Dangers of a Whitewashed World.
Postcolonial feminism strives to understand that women come from many different intersections of experience, and that women as a whole cannot be understood as having the same political goals, despite unifying under the term ‘feminist’. The gaze of white feminists has often portrayed women of different ethnicities as victims in need of saving, lacking an understanding of the complex relationship between culture, race, religion and politics.
Milo: The Future of Diversified Creative Industries.
The Black Lives Matter movement confronts the notions white dominated societies have always accepted. Why should all models be skinny white women? Why is being thin and being fit so intrinsically linked? Why is heteronormativity so deeply embedded in cultural representations? Why are representations of whiteness fundamentally associated with representations of power? Why do we ignore the deaths of black lives?
With a focus on the creative industries, and the success stories of young womxn working creatively to pursue their passions, I interviewed activist and performer, Milo Hartill.
