Sandy O'Sullivan
Title
Sandy O'Sullivan
Birthplace
Wiradjuri, Central New South Wales, Australia
Primary Sources
O'Sullivan, S., & Reardon-Smith, H. (2025). The colonial project of gender: trans joy, queerness in practice, coloniality in turmoil. Continuum. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2025.2456011
O'Sullivan, S. (2024). The museum of the imagination: curating against the colonial insistence on diminishing Indigeneity. In B. Carlson, M. Day, S. O'Sullivan, & T. Kennedy (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of Australian Indigenous peoples and futures (pp. 336-345). (Routledge Anthropology Handbooks). Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003271802-26
O'Sullivan, S., & Day, M. (2023). Colonial histories and artefacts: which way gender? In B. Carlson, & T. Farrelly (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook on rethinking colonial commemorations (pp. 203-216). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28609-4_12
O'Sullivan, S. (2023). Fucking up, fixing up, and standing up (to the colonial project of gender and sexuality). American Ethnologist, 50(3), 350-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13194
O’Sullivan, S. (2021). Saving lives: Mapping the power of LGBTIQ+ First Nations creative artists. Social Inclusion, 9(2), 61–64. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i2.4347
O'Sullivan, S. (2021). Our knowledges build. In D. Jones, & D. Low Choy (Eds.), Indigenous knowledge systems and Yurlendj-nganjin (pp. 65-76). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7017-7
O’Sullivan, S. (2019). A lived experience of Aboriginal knowledges and perspectives: How cultural wisdom saved my life. In Higgs, J. (Ed.), Practices wisdom: Values and interpretations (pp. 107–112). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004410497_010
Secondary Sources
Carlson, B., Day, M., O'Sullivan, S., & Kennedy, T. (Eds.) (2024). The Routledge handbook of Australian Indigenous peoples and futures. (Routledge Anthropology Handbooks). Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003271802
Lezard, P., Day, M., & O'Sullivan, S. (2023). Indigiqueer futures: a conversation between Indigenous non-binary academics. In B. Carlson, T. Kennedy, & M. Day (Eds.), Global networks of Indigeneity: peoples, sovereignty and futures (pp. 179-202). Manchester University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.9345411.16
Bartleet, B-L., Woodland, S, Sunderland N & O’Sullivan, S (2022) An ecological approach to mapping remote creative practices: insights from an Australian Desert region. Cultural Trends, 31(1), 68-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2021.1950510
Sunderland, N., Woodland, S., O’Sullivan, S., & Bartleet, B.-L. (2022). The role of Australian First Nations’ Knowledges and the arts in “inclusive” regional and remote development: A narrative review. Journal of Rural Studies, 89, 423–436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.11.002
Barney, K. (2014). A discussion with Sandy O’Sullivan about key issues for the Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 43(1), 52-57. https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2014.7
Extra Resources
O'Sullivan, S. (2019, May 17) As queer Indigenous people we know a thing or two about days of action – IDAHOBIT. Indigenous X. Accessed September 1, 2022. https://indigenousx.com.au/as-queer-indigenous-people-we-know-a-thing-or-two-about-days-of-action-idahobit/
Collection
Citation
“Sandy O'Sullivan,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 13, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/125.