Kat Vella interviews random passers-by about the discussions they are having (or not having) with people in their lives about potentially divisive issues.
Author: Emily Vescio
Pinkish Blu: More Than An Insta Caption
By Emily Vescio For a minute there, we were in a straight-up Aussie music drought with one mediocre pop hit drop at a time but it seems, touch wood, that we’re on the up again. While homegrown babies, 5 Seconds of Summer and Adelaide-rapper-turned-Facebook-chef Allday are growing bigger overseas and moving out of Australia to […]
Sasha Sloan Is The Biggest Artist You’ve Listened To Without Knowing It
By Emily Vescio Sasha Sloan recently released her third EP – Self Portrait. Building up to an album, her discography thus far is close to perfect. Sasha is a talented writer, as is shown through her endless list of writing credits. She’s written for and with Louis Tomlinson, Camilla Cabello, Charli XCX, LANY, John Legend […]
Did You Know That Travelling For A Band Leaves You Open To Anonymous Hate? Me Either
By Emily Vescio It was hot and the music was too loud for my pounding head to handle. I was in the backseat of a rental car, straddling the border of Victoria and South Australia headed to a show in Adelaide, and I was crying my eyes out. My phone was blowing up with anonymous […]
You Too Can Hit Up 7 Countries Before Your 20s With $28.36 In Your Bank Account
By Emily Vescio Travelling is something you’re told to do when you’re young – before you settle down and get married and have kids. Aside from the gross concept that once you meet someone you can’t travel anymore and your life is over because of the snotty gremlins running around your feet, travelling costs money […]
Why Do Sydney Residents Have Such A False Optimism About Summer?
By Oliver Brett “Miserable out there isn’t it?” a cashier tells me in Sydney CBD. It is August, she shivers behind the counter. It is no less than 15°C , a mild day but nothing worse than that. I myself am dressed in a long jacket and wrapped with a scarf. I feel the […]
Does Belittling People Who Enjoy Halloween Really Make You Feel Better?
By Emily Vescio As soon as October rolls around the Christmas decorations hit the shelves. If you look past the people clambering to get their Christmas shopping done as soon as possible, you’ll find a small few wading through the red and white fur-clad piles of decorations trying desperately to make time for some Halloween […]
Depression Doesn’t Just Go Away When You’re On An Island Holiday
By Emily Vescio I stepped off the plane in Hawaii, ready to relax and sip cocktails out of coconuts, I was slapped in the face with humid, hot air – closely followed by the crippling reality that my clinical depression had no intention of going on holidays. I wasn’t happy to be there, and I […]
The Most Popular Netflix Shows Nobody Is Watching
By Emily Vescio “What Should I Watch on Netflix” Typing this simple phrase into Google (or Bing, I don’t judge) in a frantic attempt to not sit and re-watch the same episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine for the third time this week, and finding the same list of shows over and over. Not to mention they’re […]
What Is Happening In Chile? An Interview With Chilean Students In Sydney
Australia has a well-established Chilean expat community who came here following the military coup in the 1970’s. The violent coup which saw the death and disappearance of thousands of Chilean citizens overthrew the democratically elected government and established a dictatorship for nearly thirty years. I spoke to two Chilean students who organised, together with other […]