Hellai Gul
Hellai Gul is a poet, critic, and writer. Living and working on sovereign Burramattagal and Gadigal lands. They are currently curating poems for a collection and writing a dissertation at USyd. Their work can be found in Cordite, Foame, Swim Meet Lit and more. They can be found at Insta: @hellai.gul / Twitter: @hellaigul.
All essays by Hellai Gul
For There She is, Out of the Shadow
The underlying structures that led to Woolf’s thinly veiled racist depiction of Daisy in Mrs Dalloway have reconfigured to shape Mina’s existence in the world as a woman writer of colour. Writing Daisy’s story is a way for Mina to push back and resist the daily draining forces of racism and sexism. Writing is revival, ‘I know what I have to do: tracking her voice, channelling her vibe; that is what matters’, Mina hypes herself, adding ‘[r]esearch seems to work when I’m stuck, turning history, allowing the creative nexus to thrive, to flower, for Daisy to intone leaving her husband, her son, and her household behind.’.