Chelsea Watego

3 days ago | theurbanlist.com | Chelsea Watego |Larissa Behrendt |Lisa Fuller |Melissa Lucashenko

If you prefer to sit back and listen to a literary classic or you want to hear an autobiography in an author's own words, we have found some of the best audiobooks for your listening pleasure. While we still love sitting down for a good session of page turning, with life always on the move, it's not always possible to sit down with a book. This is where the beauty of audiobooks comes in. Here are the best audiobooks to listen to right now.

Jul 29, 2023 | e-tangata.co.nz | Chelsea Watego

Professor Chelsea Watego’s response to being told to have hope is: “Fuck hope. Be sovereign.”In her essays, she examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in Australia. Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she sets out strategies for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out.

Jul 20, 2023 | theguardian.com | Chelsea Watego

When I released my debut book Another Day in the Colony it took me a while to adjust to the white applause for the supposed sophisticated articulation of our oppression while on various festival stages over the past year or so. The writers’ festival circuit isn’t my usual stage. I’m not in the business of selling books to make a living. I wrote a book to make sense of the violence of this world and the work of trying to make a living, of raising a family in this place. This place, that is ours.

Jul 19, 2023 | indigenousx.com.au | Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts |Chelsea Watego |Phillip Mills |Celeste Liddle

Voice to Parliament: Why mob are staying silent At this moment, Blackfullas are being routinely punished, in their personal and professional lives, for daring to speak freely about a referendum that will supposedly change our lives forever. Munanjahli and South Sea Island woman and Associate Professor Chelsea Watego shares why mob are staying silent when asked about the Voice to Parliament.

May 9, 2023 | dailybulletin.com.au | Chelsea Watego

So writes Ellen van Neerven in the introduction to their latest book, Personal Score. “I have a score to settle,” they continue. In this book, they well and truly settle the score – as a Blackfulla, an athlete and as well as a former amateur player, a self-proclaimed “armchair enthusiast of the sport we call ‘the world game’: football, sometimes called soccer in this country”.