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Author Link Gordon, Dixie, Editor. Author

Title Breaking silent codes : across Australia and the Pacific against sexual abuse and family violence for First Nations women / [edited by Dixie Link Gordon]
Published North Sydney : Blur Projects
[Riverwood, New South Wales] : Ligare / Colour Copy Centre, 2019

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 W'PONDS  362.82920994 Lin/Bsc  DUE 03-04-24
Description 78 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
Summary "In August 2018, UNSW Arts and Social Sciences, Women's Legal Service NSW and the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence sponsored and hosted a unique forum of 42 Aboriginal, Torres Strait and Pacific Islander women intended to 'Break Silent Codes' and share stories of cultural and spiritual responses to the issue of sexual assault and family violence in communities across Australia and the Pacific. The forum provided a platform for women to discuss the ways in which community, religion, authority and family create silences around sexual assault and family violence. There are many injustices experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait and Pacific Islander communities. For a long time, it has seemed that all other matters of injustice are more important than the sexual assault and domestic violence in communities. Women experience this as a silencing of issues important to their spiritual and physical well being. Through this book, we share with you the stories of this gathering which has now become a movement of its own for First Nations women across Australia and the Pacific."
Analysis Australian
Notes Copyright © - author Dixie Link Gordon, adjunt senior lecturer, Art and Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney ; copyright © photography - Belinda Mason
Subject Family violence -- Australia
Family violence -- Papua New Guinea
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Social condition
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs
Sexual abuse victims -- Papua New Guinea
Sexual abuse victims -- Australia
Author Link Gordon, Dixie, editor
Mason, Belinda, photographer
ISBN 9780648257417