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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Another Day in the Colony
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'A groundbreaking work – and a call to arms – that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people.

'In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of ‘the Aboriginal problem’, she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out. Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea tells her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court, and in media.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: This book is dedicated to Vernon Thomas Watego and Matthew Kehi-Toka Bond.

    I am eternally grateful for the life, love and learning that you both have gifted me.

  • Chosen as one of the  Conversation's best Australian books of the 21st century

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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Book It In : Chelsea Watego Paul Daley (presenter), 2022 25159905 2022 single work podcast

'Paul Daley speaks to Chelsea Watego about why she says ‘fuck hope’ and why she wants to take her book, Another Day in the Colony, to Aboriginal readers in prisons.'

Source: Book It In.

Skin in the Game Mykaela Saunders , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2022;

— Review of Another Day in the Colony Chelsea Watego , 2021 selected work essay

'I’ve worked in Aboriginal education since 2003, in different institutions and teaching capacities, and I’ve always ignored the personal impacts of my job, stuffing them down and getting on with things the way my stoic old people always did. If I ever had to talk about the harm that educational institutions cause, I’d just focus on the cultural and communal impacts, particularly on my students. But reading Munanjali and South Sea Islander Professor Chelsea Watego’s Another Day in the Colony (UQP) allowed me to admit the personal slights and to feel them rather than repressing them.'  (Introduction)

The Power of Story Rachael Hocking (interviewer), 2021 single work interview
— Appears in: Koori Mail , December 15 no. 766 2021; (p. 28-29)
'Warlpiri Journalist Rachael Hocking speaks to Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman Dr Chelsea Watego about her latest book Another Day in the Country.'
From Hashtag to New Book Title, Another Day in the Colony Tells It How It Really Is 2021 single work
— Appears in: Koori Mail , December 15 no. 766 2021; (p. 5)
'IN 2020 Chelsea Watego stopped. Just for a moment. Dr Watego, a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander academic and writer, took leave from work, listened to what her body was telling her and stopped. '
 
Books Roundup : Permafrost, Scary Monsters, Another Day in the Colony, How to End a Story Ellen Cregan , Mindy Gill , Monique Grbec , Fiona Murphy , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2021;

— Review of Permafrost S. J. Norman , 2021 selected work short story ; Scary Monsters Michelle De Kretser , 2021 single work novel ; Another Day in the Colony Chelsea Watego , 2021 selected work essay ; How to End a Story : Diaries 1995–1998 Helen Garner , 2021 single work diary
Books Roundup : Permafrost, Scary Monsters, Another Day in the Colony, How to End a Story Ellen Cregan , Mindy Gill , Monique Grbec , Fiona Murphy , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , November 2021;

— Review of Permafrost S. J. Norman , 2021 selected work short story ; Scary Monsters Michelle De Kretser , 2021 single work novel ; Another Day in the Colony Chelsea Watego , 2021 selected work essay ; How to End a Story : Diaries 1995–1998 Helen Garner , 2021 single work diary
Skin in the Game Mykaela Saunders , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2022;

— Review of Another Day in the Colony Chelsea Watego , 2021 selected work essay

'I’ve worked in Aboriginal education since 2003, in different institutions and teaching capacities, and I’ve always ignored the personal impacts of my job, stuffing them down and getting on with things the way my stoic old people always did. If I ever had to talk about the harm that educational institutions cause, I’d just focus on the cultural and communal impacts, particularly on my students. But reading Munanjali and South Sea Islander Professor Chelsea Watego’s Another Day in the Colony (UQP) allowed me to admit the personal slights and to feel them rather than repressing them.'  (Introduction)

From Hashtag to New Book Title, Another Day in the Colony Tells It How It Really Is 2021 single work
— Appears in: Koori Mail , December 15 no. 766 2021; (p. 5)
'IN 2020 Chelsea Watego stopped. Just for a moment. Dr Watego, a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander academic and writer, took leave from work, listened to what her body was telling her and stopped. '
 
The Power of Story Rachael Hocking (interviewer), 2021 single work interview
— Appears in: Koori Mail , December 15 no. 766 2021; (p. 28-29)
'Warlpiri Journalist Rachael Hocking speaks to Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman Dr Chelsea Watego about her latest book Another Day in the Country.'
y separately published work icon Book It In : Chelsea Watego Paul Daley (presenter), 2022 25159905 2022 single work podcast

'Paul Daley speaks to Chelsea Watego about why she says ‘fuck hope’ and why she wants to take her book, Another Day in the Colony, to Aboriginal readers in prisons.'

Source: Book It In.

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