Carol Que
Carol Que is a Chinese migrant settler living on Kulin Lands since age 10. Her writing, teaching, and organising is invested in anticolonial and anticapitalist grassroots struggles.
All essays by Carol Que
The Sea That We Swim In
For those of us on the left who want to shift how we do politics, we have to get clearer on what liberalism looks like, how it is rationalised, and how everyone is implicated, to differing degrees and effects. More than just ‘clarifying misconceptions’, we have to identify and unlearn the liberalism that runs through our lives.
What’s the Use: On the Uses of Use
‘What’s the use?’ is an irresistible refrain when living under the illegitimate jurisdiction of so-called Australia. It is difficult to break the patterns of non-consent, policing, and harm when the poor and marginalised have to constantly fight for their survival, and prove their utility-value to the state.