An Indigenous-led, methodologically innovative approach

This project is undertaken in collaboration with First Nations women and girls from Noongar, Ngalakgan and Victorian Aboriginal communities.

Key aims and contributions

This Indigenous-led project addresses one of the most foundational and enduring gender justice issues for the Australian nation – reparations for colonisation – from the standpoint of First Nations women and girls. It commissions First Nations women and girls to create artwork that shares their desires for reparative justice and visions for more just futures in Australia which will be celebrated in a national exhibition. This project aims to reshape scholarly understandings of reparative justice by co-designing with the artists new practices of reparations which are embedded in Indigenous knowledge and perspectives.

Why this work matters

The strength of this project lies in its novel and highly innovative use of desire-based frameworks and Indigenous methods of storywork (through art) and yarning to redress the historic exclusion of First Nations women and girl’s voices and stories from scholarship and practice of reparative justice. By amplifying their voices, this project empowers First Nations women and girls to participate in decision making about reparative justice and advances Indigenous self-determination.