Fishwick Papers: The "Your Neutral is not Our Neutral" Edition

Goooood evening!It's the second FP (that's what the cool kids are calling the Fishwick Papers) in a week! How was that? Too much stuff in a week? Would you want that again? Let me know!This week at work we've made a start on the next level of research for the exhibition we're working on, and I was assigned research into the emergence of colour film. Specifically, I chose to look at how the technology of colour film was developed to best represent white skin tones. Film stocks, dyes and lighting were not only chosen to represent white people, but to make white people whiter than they are. Wild.

It's That Day

• To celebrate Australia Day is to celebrate violence

• What kind of morality do they want us to celebrate on That Day?

• It's convenient to say Aboriginal people support Australia Day but it's not true

White Australia has a Black History

• Nathan Sentance on the myth of objectivity in memory institutions

• 20 inspiring black women who have changed Australia

• The history of the 1938 Day of Mourning

White Australia has a Black Future

• Miranda Tapsell: from Kakadu to Cannes and back again

• Divide and Dissolve use walls of sound to help end white supremacy

• Warwick Thornton on Sweet Country: the Western for contemporary Australia

Cutting Through With Comedy

• Blerd Culture: "Show me the receipts where it says Hermione is white"

• Nakkiah Lui, author of Black is the New White

• Sharing a smashed avo with Adam Briggs

• Why can't white Australia just get over it?

And from across the Tasman

• The Thriller Haka from Taika Waititi's Boy

Alrighty, have a great weekend, and thank you as always for subscribing.Much love,Jim xPS. Looking to buy a thing? Check this Twitter account first to see if you can buy Indigenous