Nevertheless Stories
Meet Marlena (she/her). Music journalist, businesswoman, public speaker, author, and globe-trotting adrenalin junkie. Throughout her career, she’s interviewed the likes of Russell Brand, Ed Sheeran and Robbie Williams, and was the first person in the world to base jump with cerebral palsy.
Melodic rapper MAD WXRLD has just dropped a banger in the form of ‘Fly Away’, an intimate and vulnerable insight into her struggles with mental health.
Colleen Sam is a Kalkadoon (Kalkadunga) woman; an artist who tells the stories of her ancestors through paint and film and children’s books. The stories of her ancestors have been passed down in an unbroken line, keeping the Kalkadoons one of the small percentage of remaining continuous Aboriginal traditional owners who are still connected to their origins, a strength that has seen this small community overcome displacement, invasion, massacres, segregation and racism and come through the other side with what she refers to as a “knowing”; that critical spiritual connection to country, lore and their first ancestors that sits at the very centre of all Aboriginal culture.
Elissa Jenkins is many things. A puppeteer and artistic director, a professional communications manager, a writer and publisher and a social entrepreneur. In the past she’s held leadership positions at major NGOs, run for political office and been heavily involved in party politics. She’s also immunocompromised and coming out of three and a half years of hell, suffering from a largely invisible illness called Scleritis.
