Ambelin Kwaymullina on Love, Trauma and Aboriginal Women’s Stories

Ambelin Kwaymullina believes Aboriginal women are the inheritors of two sets of stories. The first set are stories of Country and family; of warmth and love and belonging, and of an enduring connection to living homelands. The second set of stories are the toxic tales of colonialism and the multi-generational trauma left in its wake.

Palyku writer, illustrator and law researcher Ambelin Kwaymullina has explored some of these themes in her latest novel, Catching Teller Crow (co-authored with Ezekiel Kwaymullina). In this presentation and discussion at the Wheeler Centre, she’ll reflect on the complexities of being an Aboriginal woman storyteller today – and of navigating both sets of stories in her life and work.

Sun Bookshop will be our bookseller at this event.