Episode 23 – Aileen Moreton-Robinson
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December 10, 2020
Special guest Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson joins us to discuss the 20th anniversary re-release of her seminal book Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism and what it means to be an Indigenous feminist.
Links to topics discussed:
Talkin Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism 20th anniversary edition, out now through UQP Press
Shout out to:
Boe Spearim’s Frontier War Stories podcast
Dr Romaine Moreton’s poetry
Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka people (Moreton Bay). She is Australia’s first Indigenous Distinguished Professor and is Professor of Indigenous Research at RMIT. She was formerly the Director of the Australian Research Council’s National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN) and served as President of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC). She is the founding President of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association. Her recent monograph The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty (2015) won the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s (NAISA) subsequent book prize in 2016. And in 2020, Professor Moreton-Robinson was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Prior to her life in the academy, Professor Moreton-Robinson worked in public administration and served as a board member on a number of Indigenous community organisations. Her advocacy and intellectual work focuses on Indigenous sovereignty.