Tabitha Lean

Tabitha (or as her ancestors know her, Budhin Mingaan) is a Gunditjmara woman living on Boandik country. Tabitha is a story teller and abolition activist who argues that the criminal punishment system is a brutal and often deadly colonial frontier for her people and uses her lived prison experience to fight for the total abolition of the prison industrial complex.

All essays by Tabitha Lean

Review: Tabitha Leanon Veronica Gorrie

Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie Scribe
256pp
Published March 2021
ISBN: 9781925849240

More Black Than Blue: A Confession

Your story is one of defiance and ongoing resistance, Ronnie. Every day you drew breath as a Black woman wearing a blue uniform you were resisting. You may have been required to walk in that world, but your bare Black feet never left our world.