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'I am a woman of the Kulin Nations; a Taungurung Traditional Owner living and working on the lands of the Wurundjeri people. I am an artist and curator, and I create work that allows me to investigate my family stories and connect more deeply with ancestral knowledge and practices. I use hand-crafted and found objects as well as film, photography, movement and language to talk about my experience as a young blak person, which quite often critiques oppressive colonial structures and art norms that don't allow me to move freely in the ways that I wish I could. Curatorially, I investigate ways to create spaces that centre blakness, and challenge the hegemonic ideas of what a gallery or exhibition space is, and what you can do in them.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Lifted Brow no. 40 December 2018 15394714 2018 periodical issue

    'We acknowledge and pay our respect to all the Grandmothers, Mothers, Aunties, Sistas, and Sistergirls, Cuzzies and Tiddas gone before us, those lost too young, and those to come. We love you, your strength, knowledge, humility, grief and anger. Youse are all Most Deadly!

    'Shout out to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and editors who have worked with The Lifted Brow before this, and who held the door open for this edition.

    'Running the editorial as a collective for this issue of The Lifted Brow was important for many reasons. Too often as Blakfellas we are expected to work as lone rangers in white corporations and institutions, as the keepers of all knowledge, the go to on every ‘Aboriginal issue’, and the incompetent to lay blame with when things don’t go well. It is expected that we are happy to fit into the individualistic mindset of western capitalism, because you want that job, right? To keep a roof over you and your family’s head, right? To be all white, white?' (Editorial introduction)

    2018
    pg. 24-25
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