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Still Alive: Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Safdar Ahmed

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In early 2011, Safdar Ahmed visited Sydney's Villawood Immigration Detention Centre for the first time. He brought pencils and sketchbooks into the centre and started drawing with the people detained there. Their stories are told in this book.Interweaving journalism, history and autobiography, Still Alive is an intensely personal indictment of Australia's refugee detention policies and procedures. It is also a searching reflection on the redemptive power of art. And death metal.Safdar Ahmed won a Walkley Award in 2015 for his web comic Villawood: Notes from an immigration detention centre.

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Lauredhel

Still Alive: Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Safdar Ahmed

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This ABSOLUTELY should be on high school curricula alongside staple classics like Maus. A no holds barred look at Australia's torture system of prolonged asylum seeker detention, the bipartisan politics behind it, and the role of art in processing trauma (hint : it is not a magical cure.)

Lauredhel This is in graphic nonfiction format and includes the art of detained asylum seekers the author worked with. 2y

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Lauredhel

Still Alive: Notes from Australia's Immigration Detention System | Safdar Ahmed

Epic library haul part one : I think this one deserves to stand alone. The new Albanese govt has a lot of unfucking to do in regards to our asylum seeker torture system.

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