![]() ![]() Inspired by African American feminist and social activist bell hooks, Ahmad founded SWEATSHOP: Western Sydney Literacy Movement in 2012 to address the lack of support for minority voices in the publishing industry. Michael Mohammed Ahmad is better than you: a review of The LebsĪccording to writer Khalid Warsame, if you "ask anyone who isn’t straight and white and middle-class" they can tell you that there is a "system that is invested in the success of some and not of others and you’ve got to be blind not to notice it." Michael Mohammed Ahmad, winner of the 2019 New South Wales Premier’s Multicultural Award for his novel, The Lebs (2018), fights the systemic oppression that Warsame refers to by using literature as an act of self-determination, a way to reclaim and tell stories. ![]()
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