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Chelsea Watego Chelsea Watego i(8114387 works by) (a.k.a. Chelsea Bond)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Mununjali / Munaldjali ; South Sea Islander
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BiographyHistory

Chelsea Watego (formerly Bond) is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman and Associate Professor within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at The University of Queensland. With over 20 years experience working within Indigenous health as a health worker and researcher, Chelsea’s work has drawn attention to the role of race in the production of health inequalities. Her current ARC Discovery Grant seeks to build an Indigenist Health Humanities as a new field of research, one that is committed to the survival of Indigenous peoples locally and globally, and foregrounds Indigenous intellectual sovereignty.  She is a prolific writer and public intellectual, having written for IndigenousX, NITV, The Guardian, and The Conversation. She is a founding board member of Inala Wangarra, an Indigenous community development association within her community, a Director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research and was one half of the Wild Black Women radio/podcast show.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2016 shortlisted The Horne Prize for the essay Mythologies of Aboriginal Culture

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Another Day in the Colony St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2021 21967571 2021 selected work essay

'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)

2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Indigenous Writer's Prize
2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
2022 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Non-Fiction
2022 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance
2022 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award
2022 winner Queensland Literary Awards The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year
2022 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year
2022 longlisted The Stella Prize
2022 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Indigenous Writing
2022 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Award for Non-Fiction
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