‘It’s hard to say what the inspiration is because the inspiration is the world, which is terrible, and we have to live in it.’

Leah McIntosh17 January 2021

A Completely Biased List of Fifteen Non-English-or-European-Language Books (Translated into English) I’ve Read and One I Really Want to Read

Leah McIntosh16 November 2020

Epidemic Proportions

‘But to white Australia, historical inaccuracy is more than oversight, it is method. The myth of white Australian fitness and primacy is manufactured; cast through monument, gesture and emblem.’

Leah McIntosh19 October 2020

In the Mood for Love Letters

Rainbow Chan, Marcus Whale and Eugene Choi speak with Amie Mai about In the Mood – A Love Letter to Wong Kar-wai & Hong Kong, their latest commissioned performance from the Sydney Opera House.

Leah McIntosh12 October 2020

Why Write?

‘Writing as diverse people allows us to make a start even if reaching the end takes more time than forever itself and is littered with barbed wire and glass.’

Leah McIntosh1 October 2020robertwood

Notes from Admin; or, the Multiplicity of Form

‘And so, if diversity is about letting us speak our own stories, it is not enough to assume that the shape, tone, style, metre, length, language, of those stories will be in a manner that makes sense to critical good taste.’

Leah McIntosh8 September 2020robertwood

What Comes Next? Some Thoughts On Diversity

‘Diversity’ is everywhere and it is exhausting, not only to keep talking about it but to experience it, to keep educating people, to refuse the weight of whiteness as it interrupts and silences our work in the community.

Leah McIntosh30 July 2020robertwood

Famili Launch — Review

Sumarlinah Raden Winoto reviews Famili, which launched during Midsumma 2020.

ReviewLeah McIntosh11 February 2020beast, krishna istha, QTIPOC, arts house, midsumma, review

LIMINAL in 2019

It struck us recently that it seems like we’re always looking to the future, and rarely focus on the things we’ve worked so hard to create. We thought we’d take a second to take a look at the things we’ve done this year.

Welcome to our 2019 Wrap!

Leah McIntosh18 December 2019

Liminal's Top Picks for Ubud Writers & Readers Festival '19

Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced its full program and lineup of over 180 authors, journalists, artists and activists from 30 countries.

Leah McIntosh5 October 2019

On Liminality

‘I am what Robert Park, an American sociologist would have described as a Marginal Person. Somebody who lives in two worlds, but who is more or less a stranger in both.’ Melanie Cheng on liminality, first read at the launch of LIMINAL issue #1.

WritingLeah McIntosh3 October 2019

Notes on Diversity

‘Depending on who you talk to, the d-word can be either dreaded, detested, or divine. It’s a word that, when laundered through the spin-cycle of contemporary culture, has been wrung to absolute death.’ A Review of Three Performances at Melbourne Fringe 2019.

WritingLeah McIntosh26 September 2019

An Open Letter to Melbourne Fringe Festival

The values of Melbourne Fringe, as professed in the 2018 Annual Report “Who We Are” section (p2), centre “inclusivity” and “diversity.” As such, we are dismayed, alarmed, concerned and disturbed to note one of the programmed works at the 2019 Melbourne Fringe, “Aisha the Aussie Geisha” by Kate Hanley Corley.

Leah McIntosh21 August 2019

LIMINAL X Centre for Stories—Editorial

Together, we speak of Perth in its wondrous complexity, in the shifting sands of time, and in partnership with the other communities that also belong here.

Leah McIntosh5 August 2019robertwood

Liminal's Top Picks for Sydney Writers' Festival '19

This year, Sydney Writers Festival explores the ways that writing can be used to deceive others in an increasingly post-truth world, look at the lies that we tell ourselves and each other, and those we collectively tell as a country.

Leah McIntosh11 April 2019