be ungovernable

-Rae White

A hand-drawn artwork by Juliet Phraser. Two mice with long, striped tails sit happily as they're surrounded by lots of large fruits and vegetables. There are strawberries, onions, carrots, lemons, and other food swirling around them. On the outer edges of the drawing there are tarot careds in different colours, with human faces on them. The drawing is made in shades of orange, red, purple, pink, blue, green and yellow. There is a feeling of whimsy and slight chaos.
Illustrated by Juliet Phraser, 2024.

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Rae White is a queer non-binary transgender writer, and the author of poetry collections Milk Teeth (UQP 2018) and Exactly As I Am (UQP 2022). They were awarded the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize in 2017 and have been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Rae won the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Digital Innovation for their Bitsy poem-game stand up, which was also featured in Pride at Play and given an Honourable Mention in the Freeplay Awards. Rae is the Creative Director and Founder of community poetry initiative Uplift Poetry, and the Founding Editor of #EnbyLife, a journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives.

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