This event is to celebrate and launch QUT's Professor Chelsea Watego's first book - Another Day In The Colony. In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia.
Rather than offer yet another account of ‘the Aboriginal problem’, Professor Chelsea Watego theorises a strategy for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out. Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea narrates her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court and in the media. It’s a stance that takes its toll on relationships, career prospects and even the body.
QUT's Kevin Yow Yeh will have a yarn with Chelsea about the new book, which will include Chelsea sharing passages directly from the new title.
Directly after the yarn, Chelsea will be signing her new book - HOT OFF THE PRESS, which will be available to purchase in person at the event, and light refreshments will be provided.
The event will be held in person and via zoom.
To attend via Zoom, please register your details here.
To attend in person please register your details here.
This event is brought to you by the QUT Faculty of Health and the QUT Library.
QUT biomedical science student and Australian women’s water polo star Alice Williams is coming home from Paris with a silver medal from the 2024 Olympic Games.
Three Brisbane schoolgirls are set to star in a ‘Spill the Tea’ social media campaign for a Queensland tea company after impressing its bosses with their real-world marketing ideas at a school competition run by QUT.