New members elected to the ACRAWSA executive
ACRAWSA is delighted to announce that our Annual General Meeting voted four new members onto our executive committee. They are Nilmini Fernando and Oscar…
Stepping Back to Move Forward. Review of The Distribution of Settlement: Appropriation and Refusal in Australian Literature and Culture
Distribution of Settlement: Appropriation and Refusal in Australian Literature and Culture by Michael Griffiths tells part of the story, from the perspective of a…
Whiteness and the Ethnographical Power of Popular Culture: a Review of Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception
For Krayem, the ‘failure’ of the film and television programs she examines ‘lies not always in an inability to present refreshing new characters on…
The Ramsay Insult
If one wishes to engage with Indigenous and other non-western knowledges in research, writing, and teaching, certainly in Australia, then one needs to divest…
‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ Navigating anti-racism, academia and advocacy as a person of colour today
Anti-racism is often dismissed as political correctness or identity politics. To speak out and act against racism is to attract accusations of ‘playing the…
Come to the ACRAWSA AGM
All are invited to our Annual General Meeting, ‘What ACRAWSA Do You Want?’, an opportunity to yarn with us about what you’d like to…
What ACRAWSA Do You Want?
ACRAWSA members and friends are invited to attend our Annual General Meeting and yarning session. The event is an opportunity to find out more…
Stuff People Get Wrong About Aboriginal History: A Thread
The good people at Thread Reader have provided an ‘unroll’ of the brilliant series of tweets by Evelyn Araluen, correcting myths of Aboriginal History.…
“What kind of question is that?”: The University of Sydney, the Ramsay Centre proposal and the scorched earth of Indigenous teaching and research on campus
Almost entirely absent from the contemporary educational mindset was any sense that cultures might not all be equal and that truth might not be…