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Charmaine Papertalk Green, Research Fellow, School of Allied Health, Western Australian Centre for Rural Health, The University of Western Australia

Friday essay: ‘I claimed our data’ – confronting the colonial archive is ‘intense Aboriginal love’ in action

This is my data. And this is my sovereign right.
No more whitewashing. Let Truth be told.

— Data Sovereignty Words

I am a Wajarri, Badimaya and Wilunyu woman from the Yamaji Nation who has grown up on country with family in the small rural inland community of Mullewa, in Western Australia. In this story, I weave together some of my journey through the space of colonial archive violence, silences, and the creation of family stories where there was once a void, filling it with family love.

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