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Chelsea Watego's Blackfulla Book Tour
19 Feb / 3:28pm – 08 July 2022
Thursday Island, Cherbourg and Cairns

Chelsea Watego's Blackfulla Book Tour

Please note the updated times 30/05/22.

Join Chelsea Watego on her Blackfulla Book Tour as she discusses her ground-breaking book, Another Day in the Colony and hosts workshops on critical thinking around race and racism.


Friday 3 June

3:30-4:30PM Author talk
Join Chelsea Watego as she discusses her ground-breaking book Another Day in the Colony.
ANZAC Park
117 Douglas Street, Thursday Island

This event formally started at 6:00pm at Port Kennedy Hall. Please book according to the updated event details.

Register here for Chelsea's FREE author talk at ANZAC Park, Thursday Island


4:30-5:30PM Workshop

Join Chelsea Watego for a 1 hour workshop on critical thinking around race and racism. In the workshop Chelsea will share the stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public figures who have demonstrated leadership in the face of adversity and will reference writings, song lyrics, art works and speeches; encouraging participants to engage in how stories are told and perceived and, through the understanding of this, how they might share their own stories.
ANZAC Park
117 Douglas Street, Thursday Island

This event formally started at 7:30pm at Port Kennedy Hall. Please book according to the updated event details.

Register here for Chelsea's FREE workshop at ANZAC Park, Thursday Island


Thursday 9 June

2:00-3:30PM Author talk and workshop
Join Chelsea Watego as she discusses her ground-breaking book Another Day in the Colony and hosts a racism workshop.
The Boys Dormitory, The Ration Shed Museum
19 Barambah Ave, Cherbourg

Register here for Chelsea's FREE author talk and workshop at The Ration Shed Museum, Cherbourg

Friday 8 July

1:30-2:30PM In-conversation
Cairns Art Gallery
40 Abbott St, Cairns City

Register here for Chelsea's FREE author talk at the Cairns Art Gallery.

3-4PM Workshop
Cairns Art Gallery
40 Abbott St, Cairns City

Register here for Chelsea's FREE workshop at the Cairns Art Gallery.


This tour is presented by University of Queensland Press, in partnership with Queensland University of Technology. It is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

About the book

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of ‘the Aboriginal problem’, she theorises a strategy for living in a society that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out.

Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea narrates her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court and in the media. It’s a stance that takes its toll on relationships, career prospects and even the body.

Yet when told to have hope, Watego’s response rings clear: Fuck hope. Be sovereign.