Cirrus@Austlit

'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)

'The second edition of New Zealand’s Māori literary journal Ora Nui showcases a range of poetry, prose and short fiction from the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Aboriginal contributors Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Tony Birch and Alexis West will join Māori writers Anton Blank, Cath Dunsford and Kani Te Manukura to read their work and launch this special edition – a collaboration between Ora Nui and the First Nation Australia Writers Network.' (Source: New Zealand Festival website)