Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea by Natalie Harkin
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she lingers in archives / her trace is my memory / we labour dig sweat / blister imagine / know them more intimately / so much work to be done / so much work / to clean up this colonial mess.
Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea evokes an embodied reckoning with Aboriginal women’s domestic labour and servitude drawing from oral history and the State’s official record. It explores the complexity of Aboriginal women’s experiences and survival strategies, and intergenerational stories that span loss, love, sorrow, solidarity, resistance, and refusal.
This title evokes an embodied reckoning with Aboriginal women’s domestic labour and servitude drawing from oral history and the State’s official record. It explores the complexity of Aboriginal women’s experiences and survival strategies, and intergenerational stories that span loss, love, sorrow, solidarity, resistance, and refusal.
About the Author: Natalie Harkin is a Narungga creative arts-based Research Fellow with the Indigenous Studies team at Flinders University (Adelaide), Kaurna Yerta. She is passionate about archival justice, engaging archival-poetic methods to document community Memory Stories, and Indigenous Living-Legacy archive innovations for our time. Her books include Dirty Words (Cordite Books) and Archival-Poetics (Vagabond Press).
28 Jul 2025
Additional information
| Format | Paperback / softback |
|---|---|
| Genre | Australasian & Pacific history |
| Readership Level | General (US: Trade) |
| ISBN | 9781743059562 |
| Publication Date | 28 Jul 2025 |
Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea by Natalie Harkin ISBN 9781743059562