Another Day in the Colony
Chelsea Watego + Elizabeth Walker
Queensland Terrace, level 2, State Library
Main Festival
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
“There really is no pretty or palatable way to talk of race and racism,” Chelsea Watego writes in her powerful essay collection. She talks about her experience of theorising a personal and political strategy to living in the colony.
Chelsea Watego in conversation with Elizabeth Walker
Proudly supported by Milani Gallery
#Artists
Chelsea Watego
Chelsea Watego is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman born and raised on Yuggera country. First trained as an Aboriginal health worker, she is an Indigenist health humanities scholar, prolific writer and public intellectual. When not referred to as 'Vern and Elaine's baby', she is also Kihi, Maya, Eliakim, Vernon and George's mum.
Elizabeth Walker
Kgiyarrah, better known as Elizabeth Walker is a Nunakal (Noonuccal), Ngugi and Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka nation off the coast of Meanjin (Brisbane). Inspired by her late great-grandmother Oodgeroo Noonuccal to use writing as a method of expression from a young age, her poetry reflects the critical relationships and connections between Aboriginal people, culture, country and kin.
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