'The conference coincided with the fortieth anniversary of both the Archives and of Mardi Gras, providing a timely point to consider not only how solidarities might be generated but also how to sustain and develop them. In also celebrating the start of Deakin University's Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network, the conference was a reminder of the shifting histories of precarity and support within the academy and the complex issues that emerge in traversing the academy and communities. What does it mean to have a history or histories, what are the critical intersections of all our stories?" Closing with a reading of the "Uluru Statement from the Heart," Nestle's address situated these questions in the context of hopes for a decolonised future: what kind of solidarities will that require? In the Anthropocene where "even our breathing/seems to warm/the world too much," she suggests that maybe it is better to gather "my own disturbing junk heap" and to "not over-tread." [...]her poem, "The Wind Has No Borders," reflects on the importance of listening to others rather than just speaking one's own histories.' (Introduction)
