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“Keep reading, writing, creating and questioning — and push back.” @GuerreraDominic wraps up the #ContextFest21 weekend — thanks for following along 📚
“A lot of the ten years was being a woman trying to balance family responsibilities, work. That’s why it took so long to write. Now, no one is financially relying on me — it’s a risk I can take now.” @1KarenWyld on the decade she spent writing Where The Fruit Falls #ContextFest21
“The pen is mightier than the sword, but we don’t need to wound readers to get our point across.” @1KarenWyld #ContextFest21
“How to depict the violence of colonisation? I did not to write trauma porn for the White gaze.” @1KarenWyld explains how she came to write Where The Fruit Falls #ContextFest21
“Let’s have no more gratuitous violence forward; this isn’t truth telling. I’m not suggesting writers gloss over the truth; I’m asking for writers to be conscious of what they’re writing. To do no more harm.” @1KarenWyld #ContextFest21
“How can any of us writing on this continent be ‘post colonial’ writers? Let’s commit to writing honestly about settler colonial, let’s do this without resorting to ‘trauma porn’.” #ContextFest21
“This process is not without violence and is generally never ending. It’s a system of power; Indigenous lands invaded by the British are now controlled by their descendants.” #ContextFest21
“Instead I put forward this: colonisation still hasn’t ended. The correct term of the state we’re in is settler colonialism.” #ContextFest21
We’re about to begin our closing address with @1KarenWyld, follow the conversation at #ContextFest21
Now we’re using some existing texts to provoke some creative responses along the lines of Time, Points of View, and Conceptual #ContextFest21
“Read, learn how to evaluate the publications you read, then find and follow the journalists [you value]. Your support means editors keep hiring them — they can only continue if you’re there reading their stuff.” @RoyceRk2 on how we can support journalism #ContextFest21
“Where I find hope is that you have a crop of people coming through who are committed and care about journalism, and there are other models. There are models of industrial journalism that aren’t about shareholders and profit.” @RoyceRk2 #ContextFest21
“There’s a difference between writers and journalists; being able to communicate in a way that speaks to the widest possible audience is one thing, but knowing how to find information, know when you’re being bullshitted to is another.” @RoyceRk2 #ContextFest21
“I’ve learnt a lot from reading the work of scholars like @AJ_Whittaker about critiquing White [critics] about how their work has this illusion of objectivity.” @nishkinsilk #ContextFest21
“As the curator I wanted to have people who don’t normally get to sit on a table like this; those pubs already have a giant reach. I wanted to hear from people who are doing it themselves.” @GuerreraDominic answers q about why InDaily and Tiser aren’t on panel #ContextFest21
Question from audience member who works in an org that does community advocacy: “What do you think that organisations, that are reliant on local journalism, should be doing?” #ContextFest21
“It’s also unsustainable because it silos everyone; as a reader I can’t fund every journalist ever... it’s almost as if they should all be in one place.” @GemBeale on downside of splintering, crowdfunded media landscape #ContextFest21
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