Facing discrimination and racism

8 stories.

Fighting Loneliness and Separation with The Chatty Cafe with Glenys Reid

At 65, job loss forced Glenys to confront her own ageism, then she built a national network to heal the loneliness she saw everywhere.

Being a Brown Female Doctor with Sarah Arachchi

A Sri Lankan-born paediatrician and memoirist unpacks a lifetime of being othered, by schoolyard taunts, the relentless 'where are you really from?' and a medical system that keeps mistaking her for the nurse, and shows how embracing a 'cross-cultural kid' identity transformed exclusion into empowerment.

Ambiguously Brown: Navigating Mixed Identity with Zozan Balci

Zozan Balci's journey from silencing her Turkish mother tongue as a child to becoming a celebrated researcher reveals how mixed-heritage individuals are quietly erasing parts of themselves just to survive belonging.

Facing discrimination and racism

Fighting Loneliness and Separation with The Chatty Cafe with Glenys Reid

Being a Brown Female Doctor with Sarah Arachchi

Ambiguously Brown: Navigating Mixed Identity with Zozan Balci

Tanks at the Gate: How Steve Khouw Found Freedom in Australia

Who's your organisation leaving out? A Conversation with DEI strategist Khayshie Tilak Ramesh

Let's Talk About It: Loneliness, Racism, and Finding Belonging with Ochan Aba

When Gloria Tabi Took the Wig Off and Found Enough

The Puzzle Piece: How a Father's Death at 4 Led to a Movement for Connection