Sara Mansour

Sara Mansour is a Sydney-based lawyer,[1] writer, poet, and founder/artistic director of the Bankstown Poetry Slam.[2][3] The Bankstown Poetry Slam is the largest regular Poetry Slam in Australia[4] which offers an artistic outlet for the often-marginalised youth of Western Sydney to share their voice in a safe and inclusive environment.[5][2][6]

Sara Mansour
Born16 May 1993
Bankstown, New South Wales
NationalityAustralian
CitizenshipAustralian
EducationBachelor of Laws
Alma materWestern Sydney University
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)

Education

Mansour graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Laws from Western Sydney University.[3][2]

Career

Mansour co-founded Bankstown Poetry Slam in 2013 with fellow poet Ahmad Al Rady.[6] Bankstown Poetry Slam holds monthly workshops and Poetry Slam performance evenings which often have more than 300 guests in attendance.[3][6] Notable poets such as the late Candy Royalle, Rupi Kaur, and Omar Musa have performed at Bankstown Poetry Slam.[7][8][9] In 2018, Mansour's team was required to hire security guards for their monthly event after Australian politician Mark Latham incited online racial abuse and death threats towards the Slam-goers.[5]

In 2018, Mansour was one of the nine founding board members of NOW Australia, a not-for-profit national organisation that sought to provide assistance to victims of sexual harassment, intimidation, or abuse in the workplace.[2] NOW Australia was initially led by veteran Australian journalist Tracey Spicer AM and was dissolved in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]

In 2019, Mansour co-wrote an episode of Halal Gurls, a six-episode Australian comedy-drama on ABC TV.[11] Halal Gurls is about a group of Muslim women, their careers, and their personal lives in Western Sydney.[12] The show was nominated for an AACTA Award in 2020.[13]

Honours and recognition

References
  1. "From over-surveillance to being called 'terrorists', here's what Australian Muslims faced after 9/11". ABC News. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  2. Coade, Melissa (4 April 2018). "Young lawyer leads movement to end workplace sexual harassment". www.lawyersweekly.com.au. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  3. "Australia Day award winners named". Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  4. "Why poetry is a powerful way to shed light on injustices | dailylife.com.au". www.dailylife.com.au. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  5. "Poetry slam hires security after Mark Latham calls it 'Islamic political ranting'". the Guardian. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  6. "Why poetry is a powerful way to shed light on injustices". Daily Life. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  7. "'A fierce bright light': poet and activist Candy Royalle dies, aged 37". the Guardian. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  8. Pitt, Helen (1 November 2019). "Thought poetry was dead? The 'Instapoets' raking it in online would beg to differ". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  9. "Omar Musa: Genocide is the basis for racism in Australia". the Guardian. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  10. "NOW Australia has closed down". The Industry Observer. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  11. "Trailer Drops For 'World's First Hijabi Comedy' Halal Gurls". HuffPost. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  12. "ABC iView to premiere world's first hijabi comedy series, Halal Gurls". Mumbrella. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  13. Rugendyke, Louise (26 May 2021). "The 'hired help' steal the show in SBS's riotous heist comedy". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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