Reparative ways of thinking about First Nations women’s desires for gender justice

Disbursement of ‘Enhancing Gender Justice through Transdisciplinary Research’ funds supporting Elfie Shiosaki’s project “Reparative ways of thinking about First Nations women’s desires for gender justice.” This Indigenous-led project addresses one of the most foundational and enduring gender justice issues for the Australian nation – reparations for colonisation – from the standpoint of First Nations women and girls. The strength of this project lies in its novel and highly innovative use of desire-based frameworks and Indigenous methods of storywork (through art) and yarning to redress the historic exclusion of First Nations women’s voices and stories from scholarship and practice of reparative justice. This project will reshape scholarly understandings of reparative justice by co-designing with First Nations women new practices of reparations which are embedded in Indigenous knowledge and perspectives.