Published: October 20, 2019
Pigeonholing me and my work to make whitefellas comfortable is shallow and does me a disservice
My culture is not an adjective. My identity is not a category. Yet, in the hands of white writers, arts workers and editors, this often feels like the case.
Since the beginning of my career, I’ve been labelled as an “Aboriginal writer”, an identifier I thought everyone had until I realised: white writers aren’t called “white writers”. In being labelled an Aboriginal writer, I feel as if I’m removed from the writing canon and situated as “other”.
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