Allanah Hunt

Allanah Hunt is a Barkindji and Malyangapa writer, editor and academic. She is passionate about social justice, mental health and First Nations storytelling. She has published short stories and won several awards, and in her PhD, used the Marvel Cinematic Universe to create an original Indigenous female superhero to explore ownership of women’s bodies and Unremarked Whiteness.

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Allanah Hunt

The Good Patient

When I go to Emergency, no matter if I’m in so much pain I can’t even stand straight, I always dress up. In the summer, I put on a lovely dress to sit in the hospital waiting rooms for hours on end, head resting on my mum’s lap, tears dripping onto the dirty white linoleum floor.

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The Royal Commission Report into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody shows a history of no police accountability

Readers please be advised this article mentions harm against Aboriginal people, deaths in custody, names of people who have passed away, and racist terminology. In…