Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this podcast episode contains the names of people who have died.

“I’m no longer exhausting my labour on appealing to a people whose existence is predicated upon me not existing because it’s tiring work and they don’t believe us anyway, no matter how sophisticated our tools are, no matter how articulate our storytelling is. The power of the black story and the real black story is the story that’s told to black people by black people.” – Chelsea Watego

Sydney Writers’ Festival Guest Curator Nayuka Gorrie speaks with Chelsea Watego, Amy McQuire and Veronica Heritage-Gorrie about writing from the front lines, bearing witness in a way no one else can. From young black women telling Pauline Hanson she’s not Indigenous to speaking back to the archive. As Nayuka says, “In the colony, it is the black woman who speaks truth to power and sees this colony for what it really is.”

Please note, this episode contains references to topics such as the Stolen Generations and Aboriginal deaths in custody.