Rushing to finish off various chores before Christmas but our end of year party was a chance to step back and relax with friends and supporters.
A Happy and Safe Christmas. See you in the Celtic New Year.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Aboriginal Women and Coloniality
Aboriginal Women and Coloniality. Surprised but pleased to learn that our second year subject Aboriginal Women and Coloniality has been selected as the subject that best aligns with the aims of the Association of Women on Campus at the University of Melbourne for 2011. One of our students will be awarded a prize as a result.
The Hunter. Daniel Nettheim's The Hunter has been nominated for fourteen Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards. (Formerly the AFI Awards.) The killing of the Tasmanian tiger at the end of the film is the most incredible act of hubris I've ever seen. I found it hard to believe that a filmmaker could even imagine a character doing such a thing, let alone present it in a film as a noble deed. (Otherwise it's an extravagantly beautiful film and worth seeing.)
Racism in Australian universities. The National Indigenous Unit of the National Tertiary Education Union has released a report detailing Indigenous academic and professional staff experiences of racism, and lateral violence (from other Indigenous employees), in Australian universities. Most of the testimony is grievance-based and I can imagine some universities responding by developing 'strategies' and offering 'cultural sensitivity' training provided by soi-disant experts. On a deeper level, if you want to address racism in universities, you need to be patient; in it for the long haul; be prepared to engage with senior people; and be alert for the instance when implicit racisms and racist discourses become objectified in the behaviour of an individual or individuals; then, if you've got the nerve, go for it.
Sade. The first bi-racial superstar visited Australia for the first time in a quarter of a century. She still sets the bar impossibly high. YouTube footage from her Melbourne concert:
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