‘You Cunts Can Do as You like’ : The Obscenity and Absurdity of Free Speech to Blackfullas single work   criticism  
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'In the same year that Adam Goodes quit the game of AFL, soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham refused to sing the Australian National Anthem at the AFL Grand Final because she could not bear to sing the words ‘for we are young and free’. In this article, we examine why the act of singing about being ‘free’ would be both absurd and obscene for Blackfullas in Australia. Engaging with the songs of Black people, locally and globally, we reveal the fiction of free speech and freedom for all and the interests those fictions serve.'  (Introduction)

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Written as: Chelsea Bond
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    y separately published work icon Continuum : Journal of Media and Cultural Studies Shifting The Terms of Debate : Speaking, Writing and Listening Beyond Free Speech Debates vol. 32 no. 4 2018 14342144 2018 periodical issue

    'When the alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopolous toured Australia in late 2017, he attacked familiar targets – Muslims, feminists and much of the mainstream media – as well as ridiculing Aboriginal art as ‘crap’ and ‘really shit’. Demonstrating the transnational scope and ubiquity of contemporary racisms, the UK-born, US-based and internationally-known ‘free speech’ advocate had little difficulty in identifying the key targets of vilification in Australia. This theme issue identifies the deep limitations and the violent consequences of the longstanding and constantly developing ‘free speech debates’ typical of so many contexts in the West, and explores the possibilities to combat racism when liberal values are ‘weaponized’ to target racialized communities.'  ( Tanja Dreher & Michael Griffiths Introduction)

         2018     pg. 415-428
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