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Dakota Feirer

Dakota Feirer is a Bundjalung-Gumbayngirr man based in Dharawal and Yuin country on the south coast. Since graduating from an honours degree at the University of Wollongong, Dakota has consulted for NITV, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and AIATSIS. He is carving a path as an independent researcher, educator and advocate for cultural sovereignty and progressive warriorhood.

Consult to me

repetitious tones of consulting are weekly weakening. monotonous Acknowledgments of Country in email signatures. traditional custodians must be rich, been paid that many ‘respects’. Underwhelming paper-pushing white-guilt-projecting ‘Indigenous Stakeholder Engagement Frameworks’ bunch of white-fulla-jargon, with dot-art-for-margins. How numbingly quick they …

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25-to-life

Dedication’s pressing his twenties, had his smile contentious. Somewhere between portraits, pokies and payslips he’s hit the minor-jackpot-black-privilege. That’s the-kettle-calling-the-pot-black-scholarship, that’s front-page-university-magazine that’s naidoc-week. All-teeth no-sleep still-black-coffee. Three-chapters-deep, lofi-on-repeat, thesis won’t break me, no time for poetry, don’t panic, it’s …

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