I’m a Wiradjuri (Aboriginal), transgender/non-binary person, and a Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. I also a lead the Intimacies strand of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures.

I’ve been an academic for 34 years and a creative practitioner for a decade longer, so I’m quite old and hoping to get a bit older. My work is grounded in First Nations’ perspectives, and spans creative practice, gender and queer studies, performance, and representation/s of identity in museums and public spaces. I’m interested in how complex diversity is understood across these intersecting areas.

I’m currently a senior ARC Future Fellow (2020-2025) for a project called Saving Lives, which means I got funding from the government to look at the way that queer Indigenous creativities makes our world better.

My day to day is working with Dr Hannah Reardon-Smith, a postdoc on the ARC Saving Lives program. We are supported in our work by a number of career researchers, including our esteemed colleagues, Gender/Queer Studies researcher, Dr Madi Day, and Head of Department, Head of CGIF, and Head of the World (as we know it), Distinguished Professor Bronwyn Carlson.

This website has a smattering of work I’m doing and links to other places where you can find more about that work.

• Current - anything happening at the moment or coming up (and some recent things)

• Work(s) - info and links to current and past writing, and other work.

• Links to the work of others that inspire or connect to our own work.