"Dispatch"
| Title | "Dispatch" |
| Year for Search | 2022 |
| Authors | Cumptson, Zena |
| Secondary Authors | Ismail, Rafeif, and van Neerven, Ellen(b. 1990) |
| Secondary Title | Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction |
| Pagination | 139-148 |
| Date Published | 2022 |
| Publisher | Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press |
| Place Published | North Fremantle, WA, Australia |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-760990701 |
| Keywords | Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author |
| Annotation | Aboriginal Australians had survived the COVID pandemic much better than other Australians because, given systematic neglect by government, Aboriginal communities had evolved effective grassroots services. The story is presented as The Moreton-Robinson Annual Address Barak University BLAKFULLAS Campus in 2029. BLAKFULLAS stands for Blak Lives And Knowledge Fundamental University Living knowledge Living culture And Solidarity). The lecture follows the development of the university and its teaching and development of Aboriginal knowledge in response to the ongoing crises. |
| Info Notes | Originally a “Dispatch from the Future” for the Assembly for the Future for the BLEED Festival in Arts House in Melbourne and Cambelltown Arts Centre outside Sydney in 2020. The author reading the story at the festival can be seen at https://www.thethingswedidnext.org/assembly-for-the-future/ Further such dispatches and other material can be found at http://www.thethingswedidnext.org/dispatches-from-the-future |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Aboriginal Australian (Barkandji) female author and a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. |
| Full Text | 2022 Cumptson, Zena. “Dispatch.” Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction. Ed. Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (North Fremantle, WA, Australia: Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press, 2022), 139-148. Originally a “Dispatch from the Future” for the Assembly for the Future for the BLEED Festival in Arts House in Melbourne and Cambelltown Arts Centre outside Sydney in 2020. The author reading the story at the festival can be seen at https://www.thethingswedidnext.org/assembly-for-the-future/ Further such dispatches and other material can be found at http://www.thethingswedidnext.org/dispatches-from-the-future. PSt Aboriginal Australians had survived the COVID pandemic much better than other Australians because, given systematic neglect by government, Aboriginal communities had evolved effective grassroots services. The story is presented as The Moreton-Robinson Annual Address Barak University BLAKFULLAS Campus in 2029. BLAKFULLAS stands for Blak Lives And Knowledge Fundamental University Living knowledge Living culture And Solidarity). The lecture follows the development of the university and its teaching and development of Aboriginal knowledge in response to the ongoing crises. Aboriginal Australian (Barkandji) female author and a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. |
