Public Lecture by Dr Clare Land on Whiteness and Blackness in the Politics of Solidarity with Indigenous Struggles

Clare Land will deliver a Public Lecture titled 'Whiteness and Blackness in the Politics of Solidarity with Indigenous Struggles' as part of the Place, Politics, Privilege conference.

Dr Clare Land is a long-time supporter of Indigenous struggles and author of the book Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles. She is a researcher at Moondani Balluk Academic Unit at Victoria University and also works at the Reichstein Foundation, one of Australia’s most innovative philanthropic foundations.

Clare has been engaged since 1998 with the history and present of settler-colonialism. An Anglo-identified non-Aboriginal person living and working in south-east Australia, inspired by Aboriginal struggles, she has undertaken community-based organizing in solid support of a range of Aboriginal-led campaigns.

Clare has been a volunteer at 3CR community radio in Fitzroy, Melbourne since 2004. For 10 years, with Gunai/Maar man Robbie Thorpe, Clare co-presented a radio program on 3CR which focused on colonialism and resistance. She is also a member of the Police Stop Data Expert Working Group convened by the Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre as part of their work against racial profiling.