Words are weapons! [sound recording] / Anita Heiss.
Content type:- Heiss, Anita, 1968-
- Jessie Street National Women's Library Lunch Hour Talk 17 February 2005
- Aboriginal Australians in literature
- Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors
- Racism in literature
- Literature and society -- Australia
- Racism -- Australia -- Literature
- Prejudices -- Australia -- Literature
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Compact Disc
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Jessie Street National Women's Library | 820.9915 HEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library | 66861 |
Article by Shirley Jones on Anita Heiss' address published in "Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter"vol. 16 No. 2 May 2005.
JSNWL Lunch Hour Talk held in The Marconi Room, Level 4, Town Hall House, 456 Kent Street, Sydney.
A copy of "Who am I? The diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937" by Anita Heiss, published in Sydney, NSW by Scholastic Press 2010.ISBN 1865043613 is held by JSNWL.(As mentioned in Anita's address)
Speaker: Dr. Anita Heiss.
Anita Heiss is a member of the Wiradjuri nation and one of Australia's best known Indigenous authors. From everyday conversations to government policies, words have been used as weapons to harm individuals and Indigenous peoples collectively. Anita shows that, through Indigenous storytelling, words can be used in a counter-attack to heal a nation.
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