Alison Whittaker

Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet and essayist, and author of Lemons in the Chicken Wire (2016). Her second book, BLAKWORK, was released with Magabala Books in September 2018.

Works By Alison Whittaker

Let The Yolk Drip Down
For years, my emotional needs have been tended to by people on the internet who do not know me.
22 Nov. 2020
Not My Problem: on The Colonial Fantasy
The Colonial Fantasy could have been a book that shaped how future settler publics saw their predecessors – it’s what I hoped for when I opened it – but that ambition falls flat. And as she asks her peers to pull out of governing us, is Maddison n...
8 Nov. 2019
Not As We Know It: Terra Nullius
Terra Nullius is terra nullius, but not as we know it. It’s colonisation, this continent, time, place, Country, race – but not quite as we know it.
29 Aug. 2017
Who Knows Where: Netherspace
For all the not-hereness, not-thereness of Aboriginality under colonisation, it seems that Redfern is the best place in Sydney to find what it means to be neither here nor there. A place to build an Indigenous self and community from what is physi...
19 Oct. 2016

Works Featuring Alison Whittaker

Ultima Thule: BlakWork by Alison Whittaker
Whittaker uses English as both an object of ridicule and a tool of empowerment. In subverting the conventional rules of usage, she makes it her own. In her hand, English does and says and tells a different story.
5 Feb. 2019