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May 2016
Decolonisation and the ‘Black’ Pacific: Gender, Race and the Pursuit of Consciousness
Via Melbourne Feminist History Group We are looking forward to our next seminar, when we will be hearing from A/Prof Tracey Banivanua Mar on the circulation of the word 'Black' around the Pacific during the 1960s and 1970s. The abstract is below. As usual, we will be having dinner after the seminar. All welcome. If you can make it to dinner please let us know by Wednesday 11 May ([email protected]). Hope to see you there! MFHG. Decolonisation and the ‘Black’ Pacific: gender, race and the pursuit of consciousness Associate Professor Tracey Banivanua Mar, La Trobe University This paper tracks the mobility of the transformative word, ‘Black’, as it circulated the Pacific’s oceanic world during the 1960s and 70s. Carried in the minds, words and pamphlets of radically mobile Indigenous peoples it wove a web that eroded colonialism’s power to isolate and marginalise. As such it confounded the covert circuits of…
Find out more »Carrying The World
This event is at 6.30pm. Facebook's being a bitch and won't let me change the time, but come along & we'll show Facebook who's boss. I'm launching my poetry book. Reviving my first love. Celebrating the muse. Poetry and I have been tangoing for over a decade. This is the baby we made in that time. She's sassy and full of soul and yells all night goddamn long.
Find out more »Who’s in the House? – May
Come and hang out with artists, staff and community who are in the house with FCAC this season! We will be chatting about work, life and the fun things we have been doing. An informal but informative gathering of great folks, you are invited to come and meet, mingle and participate in this conversation. VENUE: FCAC Foyer COST: Free Also join us at FCAC's Annual General Meeting at 7:30pm — http://footscrayarts.com/event/fcacs-annual-general-meeting-2/ Looking forward to seeing you there!
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