Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea

she lingers in archives     her trace is my memory     we labour dig sweat
blister imagine     know them more intimately     so much work to be done
so much work          to clean up this colonial mess

Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea evokes an embodied reckoning with Aboriginal women's domestic labour and servitude drawing from oral history and the State's official record. It explores the complexity of Aboriginal women's experiences and survival strategies, and intergenerational stories that span loss, love, sorrow, solidarity, resistance, and refusal.