"The Girls Home"
| Title | "The Girls Home" |
| Year for Search | 2022 |
| Authors | Saunders, Mykaela |
| Secondary Authors | Ismail, Rafeif, and van Neerven, Ellen(b. 1990) |
| Secondary Title | Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction |
| Pagination | 223-243 |
| 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, Queer author |
| Annotation | A future Aboriginal community chooses, without their knowledge, girls who are drugged to temporarily eliminate their memories to put in the dystopian girl’s home conditions that their forebearers were forced to endure. In the story, the girls find the inner resources to fight back as a community and escape, which appears to be the point. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Aboriginal (Koori) female, queer, and working-class author of Dharug and Lebanese descent. |
| Full Text | 2022 Saunders, Mykaela. “The Girls Home.” 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), 223-243. PSt A future Aboriginal community chooses, without their knowledge, girls who are drugged to temporarily eliminate their memories to put in the dystopian girl’s home conditions that their forebearers were forced to endure. In the story, the girls find the inner resources to fight back as a community and escape, which appears to be the point. Aboriginal (Koori) female, queer, and working-class author of Dharug and Lebanese descent. |
