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Blak thought, theory and analysis from so-called-Australia
EST 2023
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When a government invites the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog – a senior political figure of a state currently under investigation by international legal bodies for alleged war crimes - to visit and tour Australia, protest is not an abstract moral appeal. Protest now is about interference. About preventing the state from proceeding with actions that are illegal, immoral or violent.
Notes on the Gamilaroi Declaration of Independence
People often want to help First Nations artists but they don’t know how. After some reflection, here are my thoughts.
When Senator Lidia Thorpe told the Monarch “F*ck the Colony,” she turned ceremony into sovereignty. A fierce defence of Blak refusal, this essay argues that politeness never returned our land, our Ancestors, or our dignity - but Blak matriarchs always will.
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