We want you – submissions are open!
We are excited to announce that Peril Edition 19 is open for submissions until 5 October on the theme of Elderspeak. For those unfamiliar with the term, elderspeak is defined as a specialised way of...
View ArticleAge (dis)gracefully – Edition 19, Elderspeak
Peril is delighted to share with you our latest batch of new writing that engages with issues of Asian Australian culture, looking at the theme of Elderspeak with contemporary eyes. Over the coming...
View ArticleSilence: An Interview with Daniela Rodriguez
The aging population is an increasingly pressing issue in Australia. While as a society we tend to avoid speaking about these issues, it is our social responsibility to provide proper care for those...
View ArticleYoh (요)
My paternal grandfather succumbed to dementia at the age of eighty. We hadn’t treated him any differently until one evening – he ran out in the rain, and turned up at a police station somewhere in...
View ArticleA Survivor and a Fighter
When my mother passed away, the sisters asked me to give the eulogy. Fresh with grief, I knew exactly what I wanted to say. Writing it, crying over it, well that was easy. Reading it was even easier....
View ArticleMy Mother is Dead
i’d had the first call late in the morning. my brother, the younger one who i hardly talk to, telling me ‘you should get up here, matt. she’s really not good.’ i knew what it was when the second call...
View ArticleNovice Monk
Up at 5 am to chant, that’s the worst part. Haven’t got a clue what those Pali hymns mean, makes Buddha pleased though. I’ve seen the big statue smile when I pronounce the words right. Begging barefoot...
View ArticleIndonesia, September 1999
please, scrape out the blood from beneath your fingernails fill the basin with water take hold of the soap & wash, remember when you did this & traced patterns over the limbs of your children...
View ArticleChildren of the Pilbara
I There is a certainty engraved in the sky that a set of footprints on an island can only be washed away at nighttime. II Protectors of dawn, they are nighttime angels circling round...
View ArticlePerforming Gestures: An Interview with Leyla Stevens
Leyla Stevens is a Sydney-based visual artists who works predominantly with photography, video and text-based media. Often draws upon her Indonesian-Australian heritage, Leyla’s practice explores the...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Mayu Kanamori on Japanese Collective Amnesia
Photo Essay: Mayu Kanamori on Japanese Collective Amnesia Yasukichi Murakami arrived in Cossack in WA from a fishing village in Wakayama, Japan in 1897 at the age of 17. He worked as a photographer,...
View ArticleThe heart breaking makes no sound
the heart breaking makes no sound 心碎不出聲 moonlight rests on the empty bed 月光取決於那張空床
View ArticleAfter Catullus
Your ecstatic visions, Leela, I suspect 你的欣喜若狂的願景, 里拉, 我猜一猜 are a hodgepodge of too many new age texts 是一個大雜燴太多新時代文本
View ArticleRhythm within Form: Omar Chowdhury
Omar Chowdhury is an Australian-Bangladeshi film artist based in Sydney and Dhaka, Bangladesh. The artist’s durational film works weave together multifaceted yet deeply reflective narratives of...
View ArticleIn defence of Asian parents
One game-set-and-match phrase my parents often ended our arguments with was ‘Don’t ever think we’ll become white parents.’ It was as if they had read my mind and every single chapter of it was...
View ArticleElder journeys: a reflection on two stories of survival
Sometime ago this year, I received a video file by text from my father. At first glance, it looked like an old black-and-white recording. When I opened the clip, I found it was a British news report...
View ArticleThe Continuity of Language: Editorial / Visual Arts
Elders, whose experience and gestures are strangely familiar and foreign at the same time, intrigues me. Step into your memories for a moment. Imagine when you were a child and your grandparents spoke...
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