'I am a Ngugi Wakka Wakka woman, mother and educator. It is my honour to contribute to the First Nations Issue of The Lifted Brow. As an Aboriginal woman scholar, I write from a positionality that draws on the intimate lived experience of being raised exclusively by Aboriginal parents, grandparents and extended family; an acknowledgement that this life existed in segregation from white peoples in a regional community context and deep understanding of being the first generation to not have been captured on the Mission. It is a positionality that has informed my sense of black politics, my love for education and a deep desire that my work will add strength to realising the objectives of our communities.' (Publication abstract)