Declan Furber Gillick Declan Furber Gillick i(14620258 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Arrernte
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1 1 y separately published work icon Jacky Declan Furber Gillick , 2021 Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2023 23360055 2021 single work drama

'Jacky is a blackfella with a bright future in the big city. He skilfully negotiates the gig economy, earning his keep as a cultural dancer and sex worker. Glenn is a white middle-aged record dealer, finalising a divorce and indulging a fantasy which leads him straight to Jacky. When Jacky’s brother Keith rolls into town, and Glenn’s ex-wife Linda suddenly needs an Aboriginal dancer, can Jacky keep up with demand?'

Source: Melbourne Theatre Company.
1 From : Bigger Than School Stuff i "Everyone’s sitting on the Ampe mape arle-le aneme", Declan Furber Gillick , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 10 no. 2 2021; (p. 108-115)
1 Nanna Emily's Poem i "my father was four when he left his mother", Declan Furber Gillick , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today 2020; (p. 92-95)
1 On Black Joy Declan Furber Gillick , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , July 2020;

'Sometimes I don’t want to explain, educate or justify. I just want to stand up tall and be proud and laugh in the sun and dance and sweat like everyone else.' 
1 Bigger Than School Stuff i "Tyrone, all our families used to speak", Declan Furber Gillick , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry in First Languages 2018-2020;
1 1 Bighouse Dreaming Declan Furber Gillick , 2018 single work drama

'Mr. Anand. Has your client spent what could reasonably be called a significant portion of any one week of the last two years at school? Or is it the case that your client attends school when he feels like it to utilise the free lunch service when none of his so-called family will house, feed or clothe him?

'RACE. CLASS. SEX. DRUGS. VIOLENCE. INCARCERATION. POVERTY.
THE PSYCHIC MAELSTROM OF COLONISATION.

'PICTURE Ned Flanders' race porn fetish. WITNESS a prison officer's smutty underage liaison. BEHOLD a land-grabbing Legal Aid lawyer. SEE a messianic youth-worker's nasty ketamine habit.'

Source: Melbourne Fringe.
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