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Riah Dawson

Riah Dawson 21, 3rd year student in a BA of English and Media at Victoria University.

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The Politics of Being Queer, Brown, and Culturally Catholic

The Her/Him Paradigms of the Heart

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We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of Australia and the custodians of the land we live on.

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Recent Posts

  • Tigers
  • Cover Reveal: Wayward Stars by Mary Fan
  • Tilted World
  • Sifting Through Ashes
  • The Her/Him Paradigms of the Heart

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  • YA

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  • "Amidst the roar of men I am told to quiet my laugh
Told to contain the joy straining against the corners of my lips and wracking through my stomach
Told by the men whose bellows strike me from within my very core" from Tigers by Samia Lagmis https://rurureads.com/2018/09/03/tigers/
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  • Our September submissions window is here! We're looking for short fiction and nonfiction and poetry from People of Colour and Indigenous/Native/Aboriginal peoples. See our submissions page for more details https://rurureads.com/submissions/
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  • "It’s cover reveal day for Wayward Stars (Starswept, #2) by Mary Fan! This sweeping sequel to the award-winning YA sci-fi novel Starswept will be released on February 26, 2019 by Snowy Wings Publishing." Ahh! So happy that we get to reveal the cover! Find out more information about Wayward Stars here: https://rurureads.com/2018/08/29/cover-reveal-wayward-stars-by-mary-fan/
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  • New Fiction: Titled World by Erhu Kome Yellow https://rurureads.com/2018/08/27/tilted-world/
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  • "Your hands still trembled as you struck the match. They always did whenever it rained. It was something you had inherited from your father" from Sifting Through Ashes by Erhu Kome Yellow https://rurureads.com/2018/08/20/sifting-through-ashes/
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  • "About Her #1 – I forgive myself in the mirror every morning" from The Her/Him Paradigms of the Heart by Riah Dawson https://rurureads.com/2018/08/13/the-her-him-paradigms-of-the-heart/
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  • "I couldn’t even get being gay right, because I’m not gay—but I’m not straight." from The Politics of Being Queer, Brown, and Culturally Catholic by Riah Dawson https://rurureads.com/2018/08/06/the-politics-of-being-queer-brown-and-culturally-catholic/
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  • New #poetry: Ignition by L0na Waya https://rurureads.com/2018/08/02/ignition/
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