Thread by @IndigenousX

This thread is some of my foundational reading that has not only validated my views as a Gamilaraay woman - but it has reinforced my knowledge. Coming from a matriarchal clan - women have been my foundational knowledge keepers and teachers. This list is no different.

This book by @LarissaBehrendt was what settled my inner turmoil as a law student navigating the dichotomy of law and lore.

This right here - from ‘Aboriginal Dispute Resolution,’ by Larissa Behrendt:

Now I have already insisted you read this one by @QAmity - for good reason. It interrogates race, sovereignty, possession through a cultural lens.

All. Of. This.

This book by Dr Anne Patel-Gray is one I go back to because of the depth it interrogates the issue of racism and it’s origins on this land.

I have particularly found it useful in its analysis of the part of the Church in what took place on this land and what continues to take place (out of home care).

This one will probably be a favourite among the sistahood - this book is one that is a gift to us, a gift to discourse and a call to action for white feminists to address the inherent racism in the feminist movement. @QAmity

I could have an entire thread on this book , I swear, such important work!!

Also in this body of work by Blak women is this paper by @drcwatego
‘Talkin’ Down to the Black Woman’ which is in the Australian Feminist Law Journal. Worth getting a copy here:

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Another thing that strikes me is the endless work of Blak academics who not only do the work to analyse the impact of law & policy on our peoples but to invest so much emotional labour into to process so it is cultural, it is consultative & it is done with accountability to mob.

An example of this is the Intervention Anthology edited by @AnitaHeiss and Rosie Scott.
There are a breadth of perspectives and forms of expression within.

The chapter by Pat Anderson is insightful.

In all of this brilliance of Blak women in the colony - we continue to fight for space. Blak academics, particularly women, have to fight to be cited, let alone have their research and evidence form basis of policies and law.

This country lets itself down in its determination to deny the brilliance of the Blak woman. In failing to centre the knowledges of Blak academics, particularly women, this country fails to be on the cutting edge of anything and instead stares down the barrel of mediocrity.