“i like getting people to talk about it, trying to unpack it and sit in these spaces that we don’t have a simple answer to. that there is no answer to really, it’s just a bit uncomfortable.” SS

“we defer to what we’re taught” SS

Sumukah Sivanesan is a research focused artist whose texts, videos, installations, performances, interventions and events serve as a platform for discussion and collaboration.

we talk about:

* the white vanishing trope in white australian mythology

* the jane duff story

* tony birch

* amy spiers

* colonial history

* the anti-monument

* lindy chamberlain

* anxiety of the bush

* aboriginal perspective in history

* post-colonialism vs post-colonising

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Aileen Moreton-Robinson

* http://bibliofeminista.com/indigenousfeminism

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