Professor Chelsea Watego - Another Day In The Colony
Book Launch
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’, she 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 below by 11.59pm 1st November.
If you wish to attend the event in person and and have missed this cut off time/date. Please email your name and contact phone number to health.engage@qut.edu.au - We will reply to your email with confirmation of your in person registration.
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday 3rd November 2021
Time: 12.00pm - 1.30pm (Light refreshments and book signing from 1.00pm - 1.30pm)
Venue: B Block, Room B117
Location: QUT Gardens Point Campus (Click here for map)
If you have any additional questions, please email health.engage@qut.edu.au or please do not hesitate to contact Kate Yerbury directly on (07) 3138 5668.
This event is brought to you by QUT's Faculty of Health and the QUT Library.
