Who Gets To Be Human?

Authors

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  Mo’Ju

  Award-winnning singer/songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist, MO’JU resists being pigeon-holed by genre. Instead the Naarm/Melbourne-based third gender, third culture kid (Filipino / Wiradjuri) is continually exploring new sounds and aspiring to create music that is completely them, their visceral brand of storytelling the thread that ties it all together. When their 2018 studio album Native Tongue was released to widespread acclaim, it ignited some tough conversations around race, identity, colonisation and more, but Mo’Ju considers themselves an artist by nature, first and foremost and an activist second, by circumstance and necessity. Their fourth studio album Oro, Plata, Mata, was released in 2023, dubbed by the media as their “magnum opus – an important work laced with hope”. It earned them their fourth Aria nomination and was performed live with both the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.
  
  
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  Osman Faruqi

  Osman Faruqi is an award-winning journalist. He is the culture editor at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, and the host of The Drop, a weekly culture podcast. 
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  Lamisse Hamouda

  Lamisse Hamouda is the author of The Shape of Dust; a memoir written with her father, Hazem Hamouda. She’s written for publications such as Arts of the Working Class, and the 2019 anthology, Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race & Identity. Lamisse is also a workshop facilitator, youth worker and Adjunct Lecturer at UNSW.  
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  Ziggy Ramo
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  Chelsea Watego

  Professor Chelsea Watego is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman with over 20 years of experience working within Indigenous health as a health worker and researcher, currently serving as the Executive Director of QUT's Carumba Institute. She is a prolific writer and public intellectual, having written for IndigenousX, NITV, The Guardian, and The Conversation. She is a founding board member of Inala Wangarra and a Director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, but most importantly, she is a proud mum to five beautiful children. Her debut book Another Day in the Colony, was released in November 2021 and met with critical acclaim.

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