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Black Brow: The Blak Women's Edition
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Published January 1, 2018
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March 13, 2019
A really strong, interesting edition. Its strengths, aside from the rarity of the issue itself (co-edited by an unusually large team, all indigenous, only one a man), include the sheer range of content types. Art, comics, fiction, fictionalised narratives drawn from composite real life examples, cultural criticism, dialogue pieces, poetry, and more.
I was particularly struck by 'The Walk and Talk', an edited transcript of a conversation between Paola Balla and her mum Rosie Kalina. I know planning went into it, but unlike a conventional magazine interview format, some (perhaps most?) of that planning is preserved in the opening of the transcript itself. Karen Jackson's essay 'A Yorta Yorta Fire', on, among other things, communal mourning, and the position of an indigenous academic unit within the white university, was very moving. Lidia Thorpe's maiden speech to the Victorian Legislative Council is reproduced in full. Timmah Ball's essay 'Imagining Lisa: Dreaming in Urban Spaces' is fascinating (as, in my experience, all of Ball's work is - fascinating, and both intellectually and culturally challenging).
Poetry wise, Evelyn Araleun's 'Fern Your Own Gully' really stuck with me, and provides a great intertext to her recent essay in the Sydney Review of Books.
I was particularly struck by 'The Walk and Talk', an edited transcript of a conversation between Paola Balla and her mum Rosie Kalina. I know planning went into it, but unlike a conventional magazine interview format, some (perhaps most?) of that planning is preserved in the opening of the transcript itself. Karen Jackson's essay 'A Yorta Yorta Fire', on, among other things, communal mourning, and the position of an indigenous academic unit within the white university, was very moving. Lidia Thorpe's maiden speech to the Victorian Legislative Council is reproduced in full. Timmah Ball's essay 'Imagining Lisa: Dreaming in Urban Spaces' is fascinating (as, in my experience, all of Ball's work is - fascinating, and both intellectually and culturally challenging).
Poetry wise, Evelyn Araleun's 'Fern Your Own Gully' really stuck with me, and provides a great intertext to her recent essay in the Sydney Review of Books.
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