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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe
It’s a late autumn afternoon in New York when Julie Mehretu jumps on our scheduled video call. She’s in her studio, dressed in a black T-shirt and pants, and compliments me on my own sartorial choice: a NASA T-shirt. “I wish that was still happening,” she says dejectedly, pointing to the NASA logo. “Instead, we’re like close to another Trump win, and ... what’s it called?
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe
Isabelle Burke was just 20 years old when her mother, Christine, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. “It was quite a shock,” says Burke. “We had very limited knowledge or even awareness of what the disease was.” What contributed to the shock, Burke says, was her mum’s age: 54. Burke was in her first year of university in Melbourne at the time. The family made the decision to relocate Christine from New South Wales to Victoria and Burke became her primary carer.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Michael Williams |Santilla Chingaipe
Michael is joined in studio by filmmaker, historian and author Santilla Chingaipe to discuss her new book Black Convicts. Santilla Chingaipe was born to tell stories. The Zambian-born filmmaker, historian and author, has spent her career exploring settler colonialism, slavery, and contemporary migration in Australia and she has just released her first book of non-fiction.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe
I remember when they moved in. It was shortly after I’d given up my workspace in State Library Victoria and had relocated indefinitely to writing from my home. These were the first days of the pandemic and perhaps the isolation facilitated the listening. This can’t be real, I remember thinking. What do they want?
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe |Don Watson |Anna Krien |Jason Koutsoukis
Hugely popular “podcast bros”, such as Joe Rogan, are defining masculinity and working hard against an end to patriarchy In the 1970s, an Australian sociologist began thinking about masculinities and the impact they had on men and boys. Speaking in 2021, Raewyn Connell said she was influenced by the feminist and students’ movements in the 1960s, to think about power from the centre rather than the margins.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe
Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech as the running mate for Joe Biden in the 2020 US election campaign opened with the words: “That I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me.” Harris was aware of the historic significance of that moment, which would pave the way for her to become the first woman, the first Black woman, and the first South-Asian woman to be elected vice president.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
themonthly.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe |Jonathan Green |Anthony Ham |Margaret Simons
New albums from two South African jazz musicians deliver expressions of their ancestry and an indigenous conception of time as unfixed “They took away time and gave us the clock,” says Abdullah Ibrahim at the beginning of the documentary on his music and life, A Brother With Perfect Timing. Ibrahim meditates on indigenous knowledge and culture, and the impact colonialism and colonisation had on their expression through music.
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May 3, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe
One of Bryan Washington’s passions is food. He was for a while a food columnist for The New York Times, writing recipes for everything from Jamaican beef patties to miso pecan banana bread and bánh cuốn (Vietnamese steamed rice rolls). In a brief essay for The New Yorker, he wrote about his obsession with the Korean silken-tofu stew, soondubu jjigae, after being introduced to it by “a boy” dining in Houston. He later began frequenting Korean diners on his own.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe
The American director Ava DuVernay is something of a rock star. In less than two decades in the film industry, she has amassed an impressive collection of firsts. She had a few films under her belt when her 2012 feature Middle of Nowhere won the directing award at Sundance and set her on a path to meteoric success. It was the first time a Black woman had won in the festival’s 34-year history.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Santilla Chingaipe
It has been practically unavoidable. Public transport has been rescheduled. The streets are full of sequins and cowboy boots and plastic friendship bracelets. Businesses are using the opportunity to price gouge on goods and services. A symposium dedicated to the event has been held at one of the country’s most prestigious universities.
