Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 07 October
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
wheelercentre.com
In 2020, the Broadly Speaking series launched with a powerful conversation with distinguished professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson, in recognition of the 20th anniversary of her groundbreaking book, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman. Throughout a year of insightful, challenging and engaging conversations about contemporary feminism and gender in colonial Australia, Moreton-Robinson’s text has been a reminder of the ways some feminist movements clash with ideas of Indigenous sovereignty.
Our final Broadly Speaking event for 2021 will bring together First Nations women working in community, media and journalism for a discussion about the tensions between their work and the white feminism that often characterises Australian media narratives. They’ll discuss the impact Talkin’ Up to the White Woman has had on their own writing and thinking about colonial patriarchy, and how to carry this influence forward for future generations.
What needs to be done to stop violence against First Nations women? How can we encourage more people to make the link between violence against women and colonisation? And how can First Nations journalists and writers reclaim their voice in media spaces that diminish or exclude them?
Content warning: This event includes discussion of family and domestic violence and other topics audience members may find confronting.To talk with someone about violence or abuse contact:
1800RESPECT Yarning safe ‘n’ strong (Victoria)
1800 737 732 1800 959 563
1800respect.org.au Facebook @YarningSafenStrong
Men’s Referral Services Lifeline (24-hour crisis line)
1300 766 491 131 114
Relationships Australia
1300 364 277
Presented in partnership with Our Watch
The Broadly Speaking series is proudly supported by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and family and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund
Featuring
Bridget Brennan
Bridget Brennan has been a journalist with the ABC for a decade. She returned from London this year after a stint as Europe Correspondent. She’s also worked as a journalist in Hong Kong and the United States.
As the ABC’s first National Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, Bridget reported on the murders of Aboriginal women in Central Australian communities, and investigated racism in Australia’s health system and the escalating number of Aboriginal children being removed from their families. Bridget is a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman from Victoria.
Chelsea Watego
Chelsea Watego (formerly Bond) is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman with over 20 years of experience working within Indigenous health as a health worker and researcher. She is a prolific writer and public intellectual, having written for IndigenousX, NITV, The Guardian, and The Conversation. She is a founding board member of Inala Wangarra, an Indigenous community development association within her community, a Director of the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, and was one half of the Wild Black Women radio/podcast show, but most importantly, she is also a proud mum to five beautiful children.
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Sono Leone
Sono Leone is a Butchulla and Garrawa woman, proud of her Tongan and South Sea Islander heritage. She is the founder and CEO of Strong Women Talking, a grassroots organisation for First Nations women based in Brisbane that supports women to heal from the trauma of family and domestic violence.
Karla McGrady
Karla is the manager of the emerging practice team at Our Watch, where her role is to support the implementation of prevention policy into practice. Before joining Our Watch Karla spent six years in Indigenous Health on projects that focused on improving the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people. Karla has worked across government and non-government sectors for over 15 years in Indigenous community development roles.
Before transitioning to the Practice Leadership team, Karla completed research and consultation as a member of the Policy team on Changing the Picture: A national resource to support the prevention of violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children. The resource is designed to contribute to the development of culturally safe and appropriate solutions to the prevention of violence against women.