Award-winning visual artist, writer and women's rights activist, Amani Haydar speaks to the team at Writes4Women about Sweatshop's critically acclaimed literary anthology: Sweatshop Women.

In addition to the jaw-dropping cover of Sweatshop Women: Volume Two, Amani developed a portrait series for the anthology called 'Women of Colours', which features paintings of all twenty-two contributors in the book. 

In this exciting new podcast, find out about Amani's arts practice as one of Australia's leading visual artists of Muslim background and the cultural politics that inform her growing body of work.

Women of Colours

In celebration of the release of Sweatshop Women: Volume 2, Dr Sydnye Allen interviews South Sudanese writer, Abeny Mayol about her poem, Tender Scheme. Through a combination of critical dialogue, performance reading and music, this powerful exchange explores themes of love, struggle and solidarity between black women in Australia.

Sweatshop WS 2