Tainted Truths of half-forgotten lives
BARBARELLA TATJANA KARPINSKI
Through haunted poetry, a tarnished diva communes with the ghosts of Sydney’s queer underground, transforming sanitised tourist trade jaunts into tardy memories of sacred spaces, where hustlers of love, once found sanctuary. These bitter spirits share unvarnished truths of survival under chartreuse tinted reflections, challenging the comfortable retelling of their stories, with defiant neon-lit remembrance of stories seldom told.