For this episode of White Noise we are pleased to welcome writer, researcher and educator Professor Eve Tuck. Professor Tuck is an Unangax̂ woman. Her work focuses on collaborative Indigenous research, Indigenous feminisms, and land education. This episode is a recorded of a live
seminar where Eddie and Eve explore working towards Indigenous aspirations from within the academy, through research, teaching and organising.
This conversation was recorded and edited on Wurundjeri Country, in Naarm. We are privileged to witness this conversation about First Nations justice on unceded Aboriginal lands.
The live event with Professor Tuck took place at Melbourne Law School in October 2023.
The White Noise podcast is a production of the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub at the University of Melbourne. You can find out more about us on our website, or by following us on Instagram.
This episode is hosted by Dr Eddie Cubillo (Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrente).
This podcast is researched and hosted by Jaynaya Dwyer, Lecturer at the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub.
The soundtrack, White Noise,
is written and performed by John Wayne (Yuggerabul Meriam Le). We are grateful to John Wayne for lending his
Our sincere to the staff of
the MLS digital studio for producing this episode:
A full transcript of this
episode is available here.
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[email protected]For more information about
Professor Tuck’s work you can visit her website, or the website of the Tkaronto CIRCLE Lab.
Professor Tuck discusses her
work on the Collaborative Indigenous Research Digital Garden, which profiles and brings into conversation
participatory and Indigenous research projects.
Professor Tuck speaks about the Henceforward, a
podcast created in collaboration with graduate students examining settler
colonialism and antiblackness as entwined historical and contemporary social
Professor Tuck and Dr Cubillo also discuss the following of the
Professor’s publications:
Eve Tuck, ‘Biting the University that feeds us’ in Marc
Spooner and James McNinch (eds) Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education (University
of Regina Press, 2018) 149.
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, ‘Decolonization
is Not a Metaphor’
(2012) 1 (1)
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1.
Eve Tuck, Haliehana Stepetin, Rebecca
Beaulne-Stuebing and Jo Billows Visiting
as an Indigenous feminist practice (2023) 35(2) Gender and
Eve Tuck, Karanja Keita Carroll and Michael D. Smith. ‘About us and not
about us: Theorizing student resistance to learning about race and racism from
underrepresented faculty’ (2010) 14(2) Journal of the International Society of
Professor Tuck refers to the work of the following writers:
Mikki Kendall, the author of Hood
Feminism: notes from the women that a movement forgot (2020).
Professor Saidiya Hartman’s work on empathy
Scott Richard Lyons work, particularly the X Mark;
Native Signatures of Assent (2010)
If you are interested in more conversations about the 2023 referendum on
a Voice to Parliament we recommend episode seven of White Noise, an anthology
of the Hub’s collaborators called ‘ The Referendum
Special: How are we feeling about the vote on the Voice?’
