Colouring the rainbow : blak queer and trans perspectives : life stories and essays by First Nations People of Australia

"Colouring the Rainbow uncovers the often hidden world of Queer and Trans Blak Australia and tells it like it is. Twenty-two First Nations people reveal their inner reflections and outlooks on family and culture, identity and respect, homophobia, transphobia, racism and decolonisation, activism, art, performance and more, through life stories and essays. The contributors to this ground-breaking book not only record the continuing relevance of traditional culture and practices, they also explain the emergence of homonormativity within the context of contemporary settler colonialism. Colouring the Rainbow is a real, searing and celebratory exploration of modern culture in post-apology Australia"--Provided by publisher Colouring the Rainbow About the editor Title page Imprint Contents page 1 Contents page 2 Acknowledgements: The Mirror Contributors Introduction: Looking In to the Mirror Part One: Inner Reflections - Life Stories Napanangka: The True Power of Being Proud Kungakunga: Staying Close to Family and Country Black, Gay in a Wonderland of Boogie Pigeon-holing Trauma: Situating Demoralisation The Conflicts of Camouflage Atonement My Totem is Tawny Frogmouth Part Two: An Emergent Public Face A Story to Tell: Rodney Junga Williams, 18 February 1962 - 24 November 2011 My Story, Your Story, Our Story: Recollections of Being Aboriginal and Queer in the 1980s and '90s That Rope Pulls Along Many People OutBlak Adventures 'Words are like Weapons, They Wound Sometimes': Andrew Bolt, Gay White Men, and an Out and Proud Gay Black Man A Lore unto Themselves Part Three: Looking Out of the Mirror - Essays Dual Imperatives: Decolonising the Queer and Queering the Decolonial Stranger in a Strange Land: Aspiration, Uniform and the Fine Edges of Identity The Border Made of Mirrors: Indigenous Queerness, Deep Colonisation and (De)fining Indigenousness in Settler Law Are We Queer? Reflections on 'Peopling the Empty Mirror' Twenty Years On Notes Acknowledgements Introduction: Looking In to the Mirror Kungakunga: Staying Close to Family and Country Pigeon-holing Trauma: Situating Demoralisation My Totem is Tawny Frogmouth My Story, Your Story, Our Story That Rope Pulls Along Many People 'Words are like Weapons, They Wound Sometimes' A Lore unto Themselves Dual Imperatives Stranger in a Strange Land The Border Made of Mirrors Are We Queer? Reflections on 'Peopling the Empty Mirror' Twenty Years On Glossary A B C D E F G H K L M N O P Q S T W Y Select Bibliography Section One: Sources with Specific Relevance to Aboriginal Homosexuality (prior to 1994) Section Two: Background Sources (prior to 1994) Section Three: New Sources (published from 1994) Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Wakefield Press Back cover This book uncovers the often hidden world of Queer and Trans Blak Australia and tells it like it is. Twenty-two First Nations people reveal their inner reflections and outlooks on family and culture, identity and respect, homophobia, transphobia, racism and decolonisation, activism, art, performance and more, through life stories and essays. The contributors to this ground-breaking book not only record the continuing relevance of traditional culture and practices, they also explain the emergence of homonormativity within the context of contemporary settler colonialism.'Colouring the Rainbow'is a real, searing and celebratory exploration of modern culture in post-apology Australia.