Paola Balla
Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba & Gunditjmara woman & is a visual artist, curator, writer, lecturer & PhD candidate at Victoria University at Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Centre. Paola is a Lisa Bellear Postgraduate Research Scholar. Her art & research focuses on black women’s art & activism & it’s role in disrupting patriarchal & colonial dominant narratives & spaces.
All essays by Paola Balla
Tyirrem; the end of the world as we knew it
We are traumatised yet again, and yet again our voices are extinguished by not only flames and ash, but by narratives of settler suffering of this ‘hard’ and ‘extreme’ Country that settlers are still yet to actual settle into. The narrative of fear once again dominates: of black fullas, black voices, black solutions, blackened trees, blackened houses, blackened businesses, and black streets.