Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Challenging the Colonialities of Symbolic Annihilation
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'Indigenous researchers often articulate relationality as a measure to maintain transparency and accountability to other Indigenous peoples, and as a direct challenge to the disconnected colonial writings about us, by others (Kovach; Dudgeon and Bray). My own relationality statement for this article asserts my belonging and investment as a Wiradjuri, transgender/non-binary person, a Professor of Indigenous Studies, a sound artist and performer, and as someone with a large family who I care for and who trace a thousand generations of connection to land and life across the continent of "so-called Australia" (Day 367). In the context of an article focused on queer Indigenous representation, asserting my broader kinship responsibilities to queer Indigenous Mob (TallBear 5-15; Carlson et al. 23) also flags intent to create space that begins with us and ends with a challenge to others to represent. ' 

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    y separately published work icon Southerly The Way We Live Now; Special Digital Edition vol. 79 no. 3 2022 24784116 2022 periodical issue

    'The Way We Live Now is a special issue of Southerly edited by Melissa Hardie and Kate Lilley. In the spirit of Lauren Berlant, this issue tracks “the unfolding activity of the contemporary moment”: “a stretch of time in which one moves around with a sense that the world is at once intensely present and enigmatic, such that the activity of living demands both a wandering absorptive awareness and a hypervigilance that collects material that might help to clarify things” (Berlant, Cruel Optimism 4). The diverse work offered here, in Southerly’s first online-only issue, gathers “Australian” writing produced in many different places and circumstances. Heterogenous and singular in its contents, the layered contiguity of digital publication optimistically promotes the lateral and multitemporal formation of the commons, true to the big ambitions and longevity of this venerable “little magazine.” Our contributors dwell in and on the permeability of extreme and ordinary states, temporal confusion and disturbance, bringing genre to bear on forms of technological, linguistic, and psychical mediation, exposing Berlantian “impasse” in myriad ways. We are grateful to Create NSW for a grant to pay contributors at a particularly disastrous time for arts funding. Most of all, we are grateful to the brilliant contributors who have entrusted us with their work. We loved putting this issue together. We hope our readers love it too.' (Publication summary)

    2022
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