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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Seeing the Aboriginal Sovereign Warrior Woman
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'I am a Ngugi Wakka Wakka woman, mother and educator. It is my honour to contribute to the First Nations Issue of The Lifted Brow. As an Aboriginal woman scholar, I write from a positionality that draws on the intimate lived experience of being raised exclusively by Aboriginal parents, grandparents and extended family; an acknowledgement that this life existed in segregation from white peoples in a regional community context and deep understanding of being the first generation to not have been captured on the Mission. It is a positionality that has informed my sense of black politics, my love for education and a deep desire that my work will add strength to realising the objectives of our communities.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon The Lifted Brow no. 40 December 2018 15394714 2018 periodical issue

    '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)

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