{"id":25344,"date":"2020-11-13T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-711166-2356953.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=25344"},"modified":"2020-11-12T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T05:29:37","slug":"the-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/back-editions\/edition-44\/the-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"25365\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/back-editions\/edition-44\/the-anniversary\/attachment\/monster-petition\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Pixel 3a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1599487181&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.44&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;59&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000298&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition-340x255.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25365\" src=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Petition Sculpture\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Monster-Petition-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOCATION: The Great Petition Sculpture, Burston Reserve, East Melbourne<\/p>\n<p><em>This 20-metre furled steel sculpture, by artists Susan Hewitt and Penelope Lee, commemorates the &#8216;Monster Petition&#8217;, a collection of close to 30,000 signatures collected from women in 1891 in support of equal voting rights for women. Installed in 2008, the artwork marked 100 years of women&#8217;s suffrage in Victoria.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kochava Lilit, in zir work, &#8220;The Anniversary&#8221; celebrates this achievement but with caution and reckoning, considering Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy day of atonement as a metaphor for women&#8217;s suffrage in our own country. As rights have been given to some, others have also been left behind. Feminism is no perfect, achievable outcome, it&#8217;s a reckoning and a righting of wrongs, even when that involves acknowledging culpability is messy and hard to apportion. Sometimes we are both right and wrong, sometimes we are grateful and sorry, sometimes we are asking forgiveness even as we celebrate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/920148520&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Melbourne Poetry Map\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/eleanorjackson-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melbourne Poetry Map<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"03 The Anniversary\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/eleanorjackson-1\/03-the-anniversary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">03 The Anniversary<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<p>Last night was the anniversary, a big round rolling number<br \/>\nWe met on the path where the white steel waves dive underground and burst forth<br \/>\nThere were too many of us, spilling over, falling off the streets<br \/>\nEveryone wanted to be here tonight<br \/>\nWe danced like it was still a revolution<\/p>\n<p>I saw them bring out the scroll, unroll it slowly, pass it from hand to hand<br \/>\nEvery person stepping up to hold it as it grew, gently, carefully, by the edges<br \/>\n-don\u2019t let it touch the ground!-<br \/>\n30, 000 names and calico stretched down the street<\/p>\n<p>Someone stepped forward to read the story<br \/>\nA triumphant tale tinged with tragedy<br \/>\n30, 000 women signed in 6 weeks<br \/>\nThey did it using tools we\u2019ve long forgotten<br \/>\nI can\u2019t imagine how<br \/>\nIt didn\u2019t work for decades<br \/>\nAnd they left some of us behind<br \/>\nI can\u2019t imagine how<\/p>\n<p>Questions swirled around us<br \/>\n<em>What would I have done?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>How did they live?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who would I have been?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Could their imaginations stretch to reach us here?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>When we stand before this monster petition, do we know before whom we stand?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We stayed from evening til morning<br \/>\nTalked til someone said the sun has risen<br \/>\nWore white like the old suffragetts, like the day of atonement, like the happiest day of the year<br \/>\nWatched our candles burn out<br \/>\nWe said <em>remember<\/em><br \/>\nWe said <em>we\u2019re sorry<\/em><br \/>\nWe said <em>thank you<\/em><br \/>\nWe said <em>you are forgiven<\/em><br \/>\nWe said <em>celebrate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This work is a part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qvwc.org.au\">Queen Victoria Women&#8217;s Centre<\/a> collaboration, <a href=\"http:\/\/melbpoetrymap.com\/journeys\/taking-space\/\">Taking Space<\/a>, for Feminist Journeys, featured as a part of the 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/feministwritersfestival.com\/\">Feminist Writers Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%; min-height: 449px; box-sizing: border-box;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px #d5d5d5 solid; position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.alpacamaps.com\/journey\/27d1d92b-15b7-11eb-96fe-067ec0c7e8f4\/default\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCATION: The Great Petition Sculpture, Burston Reserve, East Melbourne This 20-metre furled steel sculpture, by artists Susan Hewitt and Penelope Lee, commemorates the &#8216;Monster Petition&#8217;, a collection of close to 30,000 signatures collected from women in 1891 in support of equal voting rights for women. Installed in 2008, the artwork marked 100 years of women&#8217;s suffrage in Victoria. Kochava Lilit, in zir work, &#8220;The Anniversary&#8221; celebrates this achievement but with caution and reckoning, considering Yom Kippur, the Jewish holy day of atonement as a metaphor for women&#8217;s suffrage in our own country. As rights have been given to some, others have also been left behind. Feminism is no perfect, achievable outcome, it&#8217;s a reckoning and a righting of wrongs, even when that involves acknowledging culpability is messy and hard to apportion. Sometimes we are both right and wrong, sometimes we are grateful and sorry, sometimes we are asking forgiveness even <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/back-editions\/edition-44\/the-anniversary\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":25352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3030],"tags":[3032,3040],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Anniversary - Peril magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Last night was the anniversary, a big round rolling number \/ We met on the path where the white steel waves dive underground and burst forth \/ There were too many of us, spilling over, falling off the streets \/ Everyone wanted to be here tonight \/ We danced like it was still a revolution\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/back-editions\/edition-44\/the-anniversary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Anniversary - Peril magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last night was the anniversary, a big round rolling number \/ We met on the path where the white steel waves dive underground and burst forth \/ There were too many of us, spilling over, falling off the streets \/ Everyone wanted to be here tonight \/ We danced like it was still a revolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/back-editions\/edition-44\/the-anniversary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Peril magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-12T20:00:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-11-12T05:29:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Kochava-Lilit-red-brick-background.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"936\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kochava Lilit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/peril.com.au\/\",\"name\":\"Peril magazine\",\"description\":\"Asian-Australian Arts &amp; 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