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1 Verdict on a Winter Afternoon Arjun Rajkhowa , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 237 2019; (p. 105-109)
1 [Review] Living and Loving in Diversity : An Anthology of Australian Multicultural Queer Adventures Arjun Rajkhowa , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Intercultural Studies , vol. 40 no. 4 2019; (p. 521-523)
— Review of Living and Loving in Diversity : An Anthology of Australian Multicultural Queer Adventures 2018 anthology autobiography 'Since Multicultural queer: Australian narratives (1999) edited by Peter Jackson and Gerard Sullivan, the book Living and Loving in Diversity: An Anthology of Australian Multicultural Queer Adventures. is Australia’s most significant anthology on and by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people from multicultural-multifaith (MCMF) backgrounds. With essays, commentaries, and narrative prose and poetry, this anthology straddles different genres and cultural spaces. It is a compendium of multifarious stories that speak to and seek to reckon with experiences of living in (multicultural) Australia as an ethnically, culturally or religiously diverse LGBTIQ person. At its core, it is a repository of memories and recollections, a composite of narratives that describe the challenges and triumphs, and joys and pain of lives lived on the boundaries of belonging and not-belonging; this is a book that charts how the boundaries and parameters of MCMF, ‘mainstream’ Australian, and queer social, cultural and political paradigms – and the values and conflicts that define these paradigms – have shaped the lives of LGBTIQ MCMF individuals. In a sense, this is a confessional compendium; disclosure and revelation serve to intimately narrate each author’s life history to the reader. Each of the authors demonstrates an invigoratingly honest approach to telling their stories.' (Introduction)
1 We Weren’t Born Yesterday : Reflections on a Radio Documentary Series Arjun Rajkhowa , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 41 no. 3 2017; (p. 380-387)

'We Weren't Born Yesterday is a series of radio documentaries produced by the Queering the Air collective on 3CR Community Radio, Melbourne, that explores queer heritage, vocabulary and intergenerational connections in migrant communities in Australia. It was broadcast in February 2015 on 3CR, SBS, Joy and other stations on the Community Radio Network. The collective produced four hour-long radio features focused on the voices of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer people from diasporic backgrounds, with each feature focused on one cultural/linguistic community—Vietnamese, Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic and Indian (Hindi). This article presents insights that emerged from the series as well as the producers’ reflections on the series.'

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1 Difficult Belongings Arjun Rajkhowa , Jay Daniel Thompson , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 31 2015; 'The emergence of queer theory and politics in the 1990s was widely touted as heralding a new era of sexual inclusivity. However, this has not proved to be the case for everyone. This fictocritical essay features three vignettes of gay male Asian migrants living in Australia. We suggest that the sense of belonging these men develop is complex and difficult. All three subjects find themselves straddling two artificially polarised worlds: the white and modern world of ‘gay Australia’ and the racialised and striated ‘migrant’ world. This work explores some intersections of sexuality, belonging, race and migration in contemporary Australia through alternating acts of scholarly and creative writing. ' (Publication abstract)
1 Elder Journeys : A Reflection on Two Stories of Survival Arjun Rajkhowa , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: Peril : An Asian-Australian Journal , no. 19 2015;
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