ABSTRACT
For South Sudanese youth living in Australia, social media facilitate (or exacerbate, depending on where you stand) the search for identity in an often-hostile cultural climate. The lyrics extracted above, written by Afreem and her peers, who co-created the hip hop music video Keeping It Real, articulate the tensions they experience in countries of resettlement against the constancy of family and their Christian faith, but they also celebrate their enthusiasm for what’s to come and the support networks that sustain them. The power of creative practices like songwriting and performing hold these tensions together and allow a public airing of these experiences in ways that neither school, nor family, nor sometimes church alone can do.
