Elijah Money is Wiradjuri and lives in Naarm/Melbourne on Kulin land.
We chat about:
- White mums and DNA tests
- Embracing healing instead of trauma
- Being tokenised at school
- A white racial guidance counsellor
- Learning how to use your voice
- University is a cringe colonial institution
- Internalised white guilt
- Standpoint theory
- Being Blak is a hot topic atm
- Identity in art leaves us exposed
- White women and the caucasity
- Eli’s drag persona transitioned alongside himself
- Queerness in a pre-colonial context
- The pressure on POC to be overachievers and exceptional, but why can’t we just focus on joy
- Racial and trans fetishisation
Mixed Media: White Woman by Elijah Money, My Wiradjuri Colour by Elijah Money, Stan Grant Senior and his work on Wiradjuri language.
Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson
Guest: Elijah Money
Music by: Green Twins
Edited by: Maria Birch-Morunga
Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts, Maribyrnong City Council Community Grants Program, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.
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