Series VIII - Unbound Book Club: Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media by Dr Amy McQuire

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Sun 18 Aug 2024 - Sun 29 Sep 2024

Recently released, Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media by Dr Amy McQuire, a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman from Rockhampton, showcases how journalism can be used to hold the powerful to account and make the world a more equitable place.

Join Series VIII of unbound Book Club at Rockhampton Museum of Art, 220 Quay Street, Rockhampton, where participants attend facilitated conversations with Dr Melinda Mann, First Nations Arts Officer. Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media is described by publisher UQP as a searing indictment of the media’s failures in reporting Indigenous affairs and a powerful corrective that shows how Black journalism can pave the way for equality and justice. Monthly facilitated conversation dates for this book are as follows:
• 10 am – 11 am, Sunday, 18 August 2024
• 10 am – 11 am, Sunday, 8 September 2024
• 10 am – 11 am, Sunday, 29 September 2024

Dr Amy McQuire has been writing on Indigenous affairs since she was 17 years old. Over the past two decades, she has reported on most of the key events involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including numerous deaths in custody, the Palm Island uprising, the Bowraville murders and the Northern Territory Intervention. She has also exposed the misrepresentations and violence of the mainstream media’s reports, as well as their omissions and silences altogether in regard to Indigenous matters.

Dr McQuire is a prolific Aboriginal affairs journalist, academic, writer and commentator who has been published in Guardian Australia, the National Indigenous Times, The Saturday Paper, BuzzFeed News Australia, New Matilda, Vogue Australia, Marie Claire, The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. She currently co-hosts Curtain The Podcast, which was named one of the top 25 true crime podcasts by New York’s Vulture magazine. In 2019 she won a Clarion Award and was nominated for a Walkley Award for her essay on the wrongful conviction of Aboriginal man Kevin Henry, and in 2023 she won Meanjin’s Hilary McPhee Award for brave essay writing for her piece on the disappearing of Aboriginal women. She is an Indigenous postdoctoral fellow at the Queensland University of Technology.

Please book here to attend this event that is open to the public, $35 per participant, including book. To collect your copy of Black Witness, please present your ticket confirmation email at RMOA Front of House, daily from 9 am to 4 pm.


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