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'Twenty-two First Nations people reveal their inner reflections and outlooks on family and culture, identity and respect, homophobia, transphobia, racism and decolonisation, activism, art, performance and more, through life stories and essays. The contributors to this ground-breaking book not only record the continuing relevance of traditional culture and practices, they also explain the emergence of homonormativity within the context of contemporary settler colonialism. ...'

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Contents

* Contents derived from the Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,:Wakefield Press , 2015 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
My Story, Your Story, Our Story: Recollections of Being Aboriginal and Queer in the 1980s and '90s, Samia Goudie , single work life story
Inner Reflections - Life Stories Napanangka: the True Power of Being Proud, Jennifer-Crystal Johnson , single work life story
Kungakunga: Staying Close to Family and Country, Brie Ngala Curtis , single work life story
Black, Gay in a Wonderland of Boogie, S O'Dopnnell , single work life story
Pigeon-holing Trauma : Situating Demoralisation, R. J. Sailor , single work life story
The Conflicts of Camouflage, Laniyuk Garcon , single work essay
Atonement, Ben Gertz , single work life story
My Totem Is Tawny Frogmouth, Kai Clancy , single work life story
An Emergent Public Face A Story to Tell : Rodney Junga Williams, 18 February 1962-24 November 2011, Rodney Junga Williams , single work life story
That Rope Pulls along Many People, Brett Mooney , single work essay
OutBlak Adventures, Violet Buckskin , Naomi Hicks , Tempestt Sumner-Lovett , Kim Wanganeen , Raymond Zada , single work life story
'Words Are like Weapons, They Wound Sometimes' : Andrew Bolt, Gay White Men, and an Out and Proud Gay Black Man, Mark McMillan , single work essay
A Lore Unto Themselves, Steven Ross , single work essay
Dual Imperatives : Decolonising the Queer and Queering the Decolonial, Oscar Monaghan , single work essay
Stranger in a Strange Land : Aspiration, Uniform and the Fine Edges of Identity, Sandy O'Sullivan , single work life story
The Border Made of Mirrors : Indigenous Queerness, Deep Colonisation and (de)fining Indigenousness in Settler Law, Alison Whittaker , single work essay
Are We Queer? Reflections on 'peopling the Empty Mirror' Twenty Years on, Maddee Clark , single work essay

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2015 .
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      Extent: xix,311p.
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography and index
      • Launched on 23 February 2016 at Darlinghurst, NSW.
      ISBN: 9781743053935 (pbk), 9781743051412 (eBook), 9781743051610 (EPUB)

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Works about this Work

[Review] Colouring the Rainbow: Blak, Queer and Trans Perspectives Kate Hall , 2022 review
— Appears in: Kalliope X , Spring no. 3 2022;

— Review of Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives : Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia 2015 anthology life story essay
'The life stories and essays in this anthology are bound together in several ways, for instance in their unflinching sharing of trauma and their many demonstrations of the courage required to overcome the effects of trauma. Authors describe their experiences of violence, often of an extreme nature. Some write about losing loved ones to the consequences of homophobia or transphobia. But trauma is not the defining feature of this collection. There is commonality also in the generosity of spirit which flows from the first story, by Tiwi Elder and sistergirl Crystal Johnson. In ‘Napanangka: The True Power of Being Proud’, there is unthinkable violence, but there is also joy, forgiveness and pride. ‘I say to people: “Yes, I am a sistergirl. Yes, I am an Elder. I earned that respect. I earned that title. I got that respect.”’' (Introduction)
Dino Hodge (Ed.) : Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives Michael Jongen , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , April 2016;

— Review of Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives : Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia 2015 anthology life story essay
[Review Essay] Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives. Life Stories and Essays, by First Nations People of Australia Carolyn D'Cruz , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , November vol. 40 no. 4 2016; (p. 497-498)

— Review of Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives : Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia 2015 anthology life story essay

'One of the delights of working in the field of Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies is that I sometimes get to review awesome books. Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives. Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia is such a book. Through singular stories, oral histories, interviews and academic essays, this collection of work offers much needed perspectives of Blak Queer and Trans voices as they engage with how gender and sexuality intersect with Indigeneity and colonisation. The variety of the twenty-two contributors, the scope of issues and time-span covered, and reflections on the complicity between settler colonialism and homonormativity, all pave a much needed path for how we can begin to make sense of decolonising queer politics and “Queering Aboriginality” (8). There is no other collection like this, which enables non-Indigenous academics like myself an opportunity to read and learn how to open ways for decolonising both thought and politics in professional and personal contexts.' (Publication abstract)

[Review] Dino Hodge (ed.), Colouring the Rainbow Jenny Boźena du Preez , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 9 no. 1 2016;

— Review of Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives : Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia 2015 anthology life story essay
Dino Hodge (Ed.) : Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives Michael Jongen , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , April 2016;

— Review of Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives : Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia 2015 anthology life story essay
[Review] Dino Hodge (ed.), Colouring the Rainbow Jenny Boźena du Preez , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 9 no. 1 2016;

— Review of Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives : Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia 2015 anthology life story essay
[Review Essay] Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives. Life Stories and Essays, by First Nations People of Australia Carolyn D'Cruz , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , November vol. 40 no. 4 2016; (p. 497-498)

— Review of Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives : Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia 2015 anthology life story essay

'One of the delights of working in the field of Gender Sexuality and Diversity Studies is that I sometimes get to review awesome books. Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives. Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia is such a book. Through singular stories, oral histories, interviews and academic essays, this collection of work offers much needed perspectives of Blak Queer and Trans voices as they engage with how gender and sexuality intersect with Indigeneity and colonisation. The variety of the twenty-two contributors, the scope of issues and time-span covered, and reflections on the complicity between settler colonialism and homonormativity, all pave a much needed path for how we can begin to make sense of decolonising queer politics and “Queering Aboriginality” (8). There is no other collection like this, which enables non-Indigenous academics like myself an opportunity to read and learn how to open ways for decolonising both thought and politics in professional and personal contexts.' (Publication abstract)

[Review] Colouring the Rainbow: Blak, Queer and Trans Perspectives Kate Hall , 2022 review
— Appears in: Kalliope X , Spring no. 3 2022;

— Review of Colouring the Rainbow : Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives : Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia 2015 anthology life story essay
'The life stories and essays in this anthology are bound together in several ways, for instance in their unflinching sharing of trauma and their many demonstrations of the courage required to overcome the effects of trauma. Authors describe their experiences of violence, often of an extreme nature. Some write about losing loved ones to the consequences of homophobia or transphobia. But trauma is not the defining feature of this collection. There is commonality also in the generosity of spirit which flows from the first story, by Tiwi Elder and sistergirl Crystal Johnson. In ‘Napanangka: The True Power of Being Proud’, there is unthinkable violence, but there is also joy, forgiveness and pride. ‘I say to people: “Yes, I am a sistergirl. Yes, I am an Elder. I earned that respect. I earned that title. I got that respect.”’' (Introduction)
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