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Lisa Buxton and Leesa Watego

Reconstructing Indigenous Womenhood Realities in Conflict.

The process of healing and reconstructing Identity can be a long and arduous one, fraught with pain and possibility. The building of relationships, valuing and sharing knowledge, responsibilities to and respect for country and self are all part of reconstructing Identity. This can only happen when and where the right conditions exist through the creation of culturally safe spaces/places.

Drawing on personal experience this presentations will explore these concepts in the terms of 2003. By identifying what reconstructing Indigenous womenhood involves, what we have gained and the challenges we continue to face.

Bios: Buxton is from the Yugambeh Language Region and is currently the Aboriginal Education Adviser for the Catholic Education Office, Sydney. She is a secondary school teacher who has teaching experience experience in primary, secondary and tertiary settings.

Watego is a Brisbane Indigenous women and mother four young children. She is the Director of Blacklines Publications, an independent organization, producing and distributing educational resources for Australian primary and secondary schools. Leesa is also a sessional lecturer at Griffith University.