Alison Whittaker
Title
Alison Whittaker
Birthplace
Wamba Wamba, Gomeroi
Primary Sources
Whittaker, A. (2020). So white. So what. Meanjin. Accessed August 2, 2022. https://meanjin.com.au/essays/so-white-so-what/
Whittaker, A. (2019) Blakwork. Broome: Magabala Books. https://magabala.com.au/products/blakwork?srsltid=AfmBOopOd_xKpl8Ij5WhaGIJTfgqtCt8yYrmkqSk2jyDbr4Rjhpssvk4
Whittaker, A. (2018). The unbearable witness, seeing: A case for indigenous methodologies in Australian soft law. Pandora’s Box, 25, 23–35. Accessed August 2, 2022. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.202303873766864
Whittaker, A. (2016). Lemons in the chicken wire. Broome: Magabala Books. https://magabala.com.au/products/lemons-in-the-chicken-wire?srsltid=AfmBOor3DAwuqoX7_yM_V9xAlj1F1ePD4yRXBAnsTCkAIeKhP_h6KGNW
Whittaker, A. (2020). Fire Front : First Nations poetry and power today. University of Queensland Press. https://www.uqp.com.au/books/fire-front-first-nations-poetry-and-power-today
Whittaker, A., & Watson, N. (2019). First Nations women: Law, power, story. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 45(2), 179–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2020.1837537Whittaker, A. (2019) Blakwork. Broome: Magabala Books. https://magabala.com.au/products/blakwork?srsltid=AfmBOopOd_xKpl8Ij5WhaGIJTfgqtCt8yYrmkqSk2jyDbr4Rjhpssvk4
Whittaker, A. (2018). The unbearable witness, seeing: A case for indigenous methodologies in Australian soft law. Pandora’s Box, 25, 23–35. Accessed August 2, 2022. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.202303873766864
Whittaker, A. (2017). White Law, Blak Arbiters, Grey Legal Subjects: Deep Colonisation’s Role And Impact In Defining Aboriginality At Law. Australian Indigenous Law Review, 20, 4–47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26913617
Whittaker, A. (2016). Lemons in the chicken wire. Broome: Magabala Books. https://magabala.com.au/products/lemons-in-the-chicken-wire?srsltid=AfmBOor3DAwuqoX7_yM_V9xAlj1F1ePD4yRXBAnsTCkAIeKhP_h6KGNW
Secondary Sources
Longman, C., & Whittaker, A. (2023). Practitioner Perspective: Chasing Professionalism–The Practitioner Role in Responding to First Nations Deaths in Custody. In M. Camilleri & A. Harkness (Eds.), Australian Courts: Controversies, Challenges and Change, 264-268. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19063-6
Bellette, A. (2023). "White nativity": Reinscribing aboriginal land in the poetry of evelyn araluen and alison whittaker. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature : JASAL, 23(2), 1-11. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/white-nativity-reinscribing-aboriginal-land/docview/3043325367/se-2
Hobbs, H., Whittaker, A., & Coombes, L. (2021). Treaty-making: Two hundred and fifty years later. The Federation Press. https://federationpress.com.au/product/treaty-making-250-years-later/
Ultima Thule: BlakWork by Alison Whittaker. Review February 5, 2019. Sydney Review of Book. Accessed August 2, 2022. https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/review/ultima-thule-blakwork-by-alison-whittaker/
Extra Resources
Whittaker, A. (2020, June 3). Despite 432 Indigenous deaths in custody since 1991, no one has ever been convicted. Racist silence and complicity are to blame. The Conversation. Accessed August 2, 2022.
https://theconversation.com/despite-432-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-since-1991-no-one-has-ever-been-convicted-racist-silence-and-complicity-are-to-blame-139873
Whittaker, A. Review: Surviving New England, 10 Mar 2020, IndigenousX Accessed August 2, 2022.
https://indigenousx.com.au/review-surviving-new-england/
Coade, M. (2019, March 1). Blak letter Queen: Wicked, witty wordsmith Alison Whittaker is a queer feminist poet slaying every creative and legal domain she sets foot in; her newest anthology “Blakwork” and the pursuit of justice for her mob. LSJ: Law Society of NSW Journal, 53, 52. https://lsj.com.au/articles/blak-letter-queen/
https://theconversation.com/despite-432-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-since-1991-no-one-has-ever-been-convicted-racist-silence-and-complicity-are-to-blame-139873
Whittaker, A. Review: Surviving New England, 10 Mar 2020, IndigenousX Accessed August 2, 2022.
https://indigenousx.com.au/review-surviving-new-england/
Coade, M. (2019, March 1). Blak letter Queen: Wicked, witty wordsmith Alison Whittaker is a queer feminist poet slaying every creative and legal domain she sets foot in; her newest anthology “Blakwork” and the pursuit of justice for her mob. LSJ: Law Society of NSW Journal, 53, 52. https://lsj.com.au/articles/blak-letter-queen/
Collection
Citation
“Alison Whittaker,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/142.