OnDusk

Dear readers, I've some exciting news! I was thrilled to have been recently selected for one of the 2017 Feminartsy Writing Residencies . Over the next ten months I will be one of the writers producing an article a month.  I'll post the links here. My theme for the residency - the status of black women, specially Aboriginal women, in  Australia.  I'll be writing about women I know, the lives I am familiar with, and where feminism of all kinds has gotten us. I'll also be talking about activism - what works and where it has failed black women in particular, and the embedded violence within what continues to be referred to as the 'Aboriginal community' that needs to be exposed, for all our sakes. ... June 2017  Writing our truths – privilege and identity  as an Aboriginal woman Unless you know me very well, I am unlikely to be the Aboriginal person that you expected. How did a people who are constantly reported on and at the centre of Aust...