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Category: Southerly Essay

K.A Ren Wyld Serve the tea Blak

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Announcing the Inaugural Southerly Essay

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Southerly is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural Southerly Essay, written by K.A Ren Wyld, entitled “Serve the tea Blak”. This essay is a conversation with, and an extended reflection on the award-winning work, Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea by Natalie Harkin (Wakefield Press, 2025). K.A Ren Wyld reflects on Natalie Harkins’ book, its representation of the history of Aboriginal women’s domestic labour and servitude, and its use of archival research to speak back to the colony and to power, through literature. As part of Southerly‘s ongoing revival, we will publish on our website a series of essays, each focused on…

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