A review by Nalini Haynes Ruins is set in 2009 in Sri Lanka, following the lives of one family from 5 perspectives. Civil war rages …
People of Color
Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
A review by Nalini Haynes Subhi is Australian: he was born in a refugee camp in Australia and he’s spent his entire life living in that …
Will Kostakis
A Limelight interview by Nalini Haynes Hi, I’m Nalini Haynes, your host for Dark Matter Zine‘s podcast. Today I’m putting Will Kostakis in the limelight. …
Orange is the New Black S01e07: Blood Donut
A commentary with spoilers by Nalini Haynes I started watching Orange is the New Black a while ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn’t reviewing …
Fireman by Joe Hill
A review by Nalini Haynes Harper Grayson works as a school nurse. Someone spontaneously combusts outside her office window. A spore called ‘dragonscale’ is spreading …
Winterkill by Kate A Boorman
A review by Nalini Haynes Emmeline is a 15 year old girl living in a walled settlement in the middle of nowhere, eking out an …
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke
A review by Nalini Haynes Foreign Soil is an audiobook of short stories written and read by poet and author Maxine Beneba Clarke. Each story …
Sidekicks by Will Kostakis
A review by Nalini Haynes High school is tough. Ryan, Harley and Miles were all Isaac’s sidekicks… but they weren’t friends with each other. They …
Who’s Afraid by Maria Lewis
A review by Nalini Haynes Who’s afraid of the big blonde blue-haired wolf? Tommi Grayson is a half-white half-Maori Kiwi (New Zealander) who grew up in …
Earth Flight by Janet Edwards
A review by Nalini Haynes Earth Flight is the final book in the Earth Girl trilogy (Earth Girl and Earth Star) about Jarrah Morrath, a …
Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
A review by CJ Dee Trigger warnings: rape and child molestation. The Girl in the Road features two the lives of two women, Meena and …
PAX Australia: Actually it’s about ethnics in games journalism
I mis-read the title. I thought this panel was about ETHICS in games journalism and expected a panel about GamerGate and real ethics. This panel …
“Diversity in YA” with Fiona Wood, Michael Pryor and Meg Mundell
For too long, straight white non-disabled privileged characters have dominated literature. Fiona Wood, Michael Pryor and Meg Mundell have each written diverse characters: ethnic diversity, characters …
Cloudwish by Fiona Wood
A review by Nalini Haynes Diversity in YA is not unheard of but nor is it as common as you’d expect in our diverse society. …
Sense8 season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Eight people around the world discover they’re mentally linked and they have been since birth but they’ve just discovered it. …