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A World to Live In

Hannah Bronte greets monoculture with a whiff of suspicion. She’s most at home, she says, among people on the fringes. Those for who difference isn’t a liability but a source of strength. The Queenslandborn artist and DJ recalls her childhood in Brisbane’s pre-gentrified West End in the early 1990s. Her mother was queer and single. A spirit of collectivity pervaded the neighbourhood. She’s been trying to recreate it ever since.

“It was so diverse culturally, it was so diverse economically, it had a totally

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