In this first episode, Chelsea & David catch up with three powerhouses of critical Indigenous studies in this colony: Professor Lester Rigney, Dr. Aunty Lilla Watson, and Dr. Aunty Mary Graham. Together, they ask: what does it mean to work from Aboriginal terms of reference? What does Indigenous intellectual sovereignty mean in practice? And what tools do Indigenous knowledges offer for the fight ahead? Through these wide-ranging conversations, Chelsea & David work to build the intellectual foundations of Indigenous critical race theory and the toolkit for Reading the Play 

Reading list

Rigney, Lester-Irabinna. Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Super-Diversity and Teaching Practice. Routledge, 2023.

Rigney, Lester-Irabinna. Indigenist Research and Aboriginal Australia. Routledge, 2017.

Mary Graham. “Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews: [Paper in: The Ecological Humanities].” Australian Humanities Review, no. 45 (2008): 181–94.

Phillips, Gregory. “Patterns, Power and Place—On Whose Terms?” Meanjin Spring 2023 (forthcoming). https://meanjin.com.au/essays/patterns-power-and-place-on-whose-terms/.

Lilla Watson. “The Commonwealth Games in Brisbane 1982 - Analysis of Aboriginal Protests.” Social Alternatives 7, no. 1 (1988): 37–43.

Watego, Chelsea, Lisa J. Whop, David Singh, et al. “Black to the Future: Making the Case for Indigenist Health Humanities.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (16), (2021): 8704

Credits

Recordings and Production: Some of the podcast materials are drawn from Triple A Murri Country’s Let’s Talk Black Politics and Black Knowing, recorded in the studio between 2023-2024, hosted by Professor Chelsea Watego and Dr David Singh in addition to excerpts from QUT Carumba Institute’s National Symposium Unifying Anti-racism Research and Practice, all of which were produced by Anna Carlson.

Music: We wish to sincerely thank Matt Hsu’s Obscure Orchestra for granting permission for free use of ‘Live, Laugh, Decolonise’ and ‘Eat the World’  

Production & Sound Design: BlakCast Productions

Artwork: graphic by Rachel Apelt, Artbalm.

This podcast was supported (partially) by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council's Discovery Indigenous Projects funding scheme (project IN210100008). The views expressed herein are those of the presenters and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.

In this first episode, Chelsea &amp; David catch up with three powerhouses of critical Indigenous studies in this colony: Professor Lester Rigney, Dr. Aunty Lilla Watson, and Dr. Aunty Mary Graham. Together, they ask: what does it mean to work from Aboriginal terms of reference? What does Indigenous intellectual sovereignty mean in practice? And what tools do Indigenous knowledges offer for the fight ahead? Through these wide-ranging conversations, Chelsea &amp; David work to build the intellectual foundations of Indigenous critical race theory and the toolkit for Reading the Play&nbsp;
Reading list
Rigney, Lester-Irabinna. Global Perspectives and New Challenges in Culturally Responsive Pedagogies: Super-Diversity and Teaching Practice. Routledge, 2023.
Rigney, Lester-Irabinna. Indigenist Research and Aboriginal Australia. Routledge, 2017.
Mary Graham. &ldquo;Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews: [Paper in: The Ecological Humanities].&rdquo; Australian Humanities Review, no. 45 (2008): 181&ndash;94.
Phillips, Gregory. &ldquo;Patterns, Power and Place&mdash;On Whose Terms?&rdquo; Meanjin Spring 2023 (forthcoming). https://meanjin.com.au/essays/patterns-power-and-place-on-whose-terms/.
Lilla Watson. &ldquo;The Commonwealth Games in Brisbane 1982 - Analysis of Aboriginal Protests.&rdquo; Social Alternatives 7, no. 1 (1988): 37&ndash;43.
Watego, Chelsea, Lisa J. Whop, David Singh, et al. &ldquo;Black to the Future: Making the Case for Indigenist Health Humanities.&rdquo; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (16), (2021): 8704
Credits
Recordings and Production: Some of the podcast materials are drawn from Triple A Murri Country&rsquo;s Let&rsquo;s Talk Black Politics and Black Knowing, recorded in the studio between 2023-2024, hosted by Professor Chelsea Watego and Dr David Singh in addition to excerpts from QUT Carumba Institute&rsquo;s National Symposium Unifying Anti-racism Research and Practice, all of which were produced by Anna Carlson.
Music: We wish to sincerely thank Matt Hsu&rsquo;s Obscure Orchestra for granting permission for free use of &lsquo;Live, Laugh, Decolonise&rsquo; and &lsquo;Eat the World&rsquo; &nbsp;
Production &amp; Sound Design: BlakCast Productions
Artwork: graphic by Rachel Apelt, Artbalm.
This podcast was supported&nbsp;(partially) by the Australian Government through the&nbsp;Australian Research Council's&nbsp;Discovery Indigenous Projects&nbsp;funding scheme (project IN210100008). The views expressed herein are those of the presenters and are not necessarily those of the&nbsp;Australian Government&nbsp;or Australian Research Council.

Join your favourite “nerds on the frontline” Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr. David Singh as they embark on an ambitious new podcast to showcase the power and possibility of Indigenous critical race theory. 

Over 13 jam-packed episodes, Chelsea & David examine key concepts and ideas in Indigenous critical race theory to help listeners learn to “read the play” in the ongoing war on race. They dig into big questions about the ethics of anti-racist research and practice. They foreground the importance of working from Aboriginal terms of reference, and the power and joy of building intellectual collectives grounded in Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty. 

Expect incisive interviews, gut-punch analysis, and the occasional belly laugh as Chelsea & David grapple with the life and death stakes of race in the colony and the work that mob across the continent are doing to fight back.

Join your favourite &ldquo;nerds on the frontline&rdquo; Professor Chelsea Watego &amp; Dr. David Singh as they embark on an ambitious new podcast to showcase the power and possibility of Indigenous critical race theory.&nbsp;
Over 13 jam-packed episodes, Chelsea &amp; David examine key concepts and ideas in Indigenous critical race theory to help listeners learn to &ldquo;read the play&rdquo; in the ongoing war on race. They dig into big questions about the ethics of anti-racist research and practice. They foreground the importance of working from Aboriginal terms of reference, and the power and joy of building intellectual collectives grounded in Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty.&nbsp;
Expect incisive interviews, gut-punch analysis, and the occasional belly laugh as Chelsea &amp; David grapple with the life and death stakes of race in the colony and the work that mob across the continent are doing to fight back.