M Day
Biographic Data
| ID | 68201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Day |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Day |
| SIGNATURE | DAY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3290-9695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Goanna Walking: A Rubric to Measure Transformation in Critical Indigenous Studies Students
By Madi Day, Percy Lezard & 19 more. This rubric is designed for Indigenist and anti-colonial approaches to teaching. It was created in collaboration with more than 20 Indigenous scholars from so-called Australia, Aotearoa and Turtle Island
Indigenous peoples, digital leisure, and popular culture
This is the introductory article for the special issue "Indigenous peoples, digital leisure, and popular culture". Following the 2016 issue of AlterNative edited by Michelle Harris and Bronwyn Carlson "Indigenous people, popular pleasure and the everyday", this article comments on the continued influence of the former issue and offers some new commentary on Indigenous popular and digital leisure today
Trash Tiddas: Blak queers, terrible TV and the Blachelorette
Trash Tiddas is a podcast about Blak-a reclaiming of Black from English as a colonising language, and used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people-Millennial life and culture produced by First Nations digital content platform Awesome Black. In this article, the hosts Tully DeVries, Amy LF and Brooke Scobie speak with Madi Day about the cultural significance of Brooke Blurton's season as Australia's first Blachelorette-Blak, queer Bachelor…
The Question, or Who Asks for Evidence of Queerness in Aboriginal Culture?
This chapter is based on a keynote for the Digital Intimacies conference in 2022. The theme of the conference was Relational Futures. The chapter responds to the frequently asked question: ‘Is there evidence of queerness and transness in Aboriginal culture prior to colonisation?&s; The author reflects on key thinkers and texts in Indigenous Studies, and Indigenous Feminism and Queer Studies which frame anti-colonial thinking around sexuality, gen…
So-Called Sovereign Settlers: Settler Conspirituality and Nativism in the Australian Anti-Vax Movement
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the social and economic instability that followed, has given new life to conspirituality and far-right ideology in so-called Australia. This article discusses how politico-spiritual communities invested in both conspiracy theories and New Age spirituality have pieced together settler narratives about a New World Order and external threats to Western society from far-right and white supremacist Christian ideology circula…
Global Indigenous futures: A new research agenda
This chapter sets the agenda for the book beginning with the violence of settler colonialism this chapter introduces global Indigenous thinkers, activists, knowledge holders and scholars who identify, reject and respond to epistemic violence with acts of self-determination and sovereignty. This chapter highlights the ways in which Indigenous peoples articulate what it means to be ‘Indigenous’ in an increasingly connected and globalised world. The…
Indigiqueer futures: A conversation between Indigenous non-binary academics
This chapter is a conversational piece with Dr Percy Lezard and Dr Sandy O'Sullivan focused on their careers and work as Indigenous queer, non-binary academics enduring two different settler colonial nations - Australia and Canada. Centered on questions about the relationships between activism and academia, and gender and colonialism, and the conversation considers the realities and complexities of queerness and Indigeneity in higher education. T…
Supplemental Material for Pain Sensitivity Predicts Support for Moral and Political Views Across the Aisle
The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures
Supplemental Material for Meh, Whatever: The Effects of Indifference Expressions on Cooperation in Social Conflict
Introducing the Covid-19 Special Issue: Indigenous academics’ resilience during the coronavirus pandemic
The current pandemic reignites painful memories of Indigenous peoples’ encounters with infectiousdisease brought by colonization and the resultant legacy of devastation. We are not strangers to theimpacts on economic, governance, education, welfare, and cultural fronts. Despite the magnitude ofthis challenge, Indigenous academics are rising to the call in innovative ways – proving once again the creativity, strength, and resilience of Indigenous …
Remembering Lugones: The Critical Potential of Heterosexualism for Studies of So-Called Australia
Heterosexualism is inextricably tied to coloniality and modernity. This paper explores the potential of Argentinian philosopher Maria Lugones’ theorisations of heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system for sustained critical engagement with settler colonialism in so-called Australia. ‘Heterosexualism’ refers to a system of relations between settlers and Indigenous peoples characterized by racialized and gendered power dynamics. Lugone…
Indigenist Origins
Indigenous queer and trans studies will be available as part of the Indigenous Studies major in the Bachelor of Arts program at Macquarie University beginning February 2020. Institutionalization of Indigenous queer and trans studies occurs in a context in which education and institutionalization have been tools of settler colonialism used against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This article considers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isl…
Queer(y)ing Indigenous Australian higher education student spaces
For many Queer and Gender Diverse (QGD) Indigenous Australian people, there is little to no separation between our queer or gender identity, and our cultural identity. We are increasingly calling upon institutions to consider and cater to our identities and the needs which correlate with such identities. This paper discusses the findings of a project that investigated the ways in which QGD Indigenous Australian students are included, or not, in t…
The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures
Remembering Lugones: The Critical Potential of Heterosexualism for Studies of So-Called Australia
Heterosexualism is inextricably tied to coloniality and modernity. This paper explores the potential of Argentinian philosopher Maria Lugones’ theorisations of heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system for sustained critical engagement with settler colonialism in so-called Australia. ‘Heterosexualism’ refers to a system of relations between settlers and Indigenous peoples characterized by racialized and gendered power dynamics. Lugone…
Indigenist Origins
Indigenous queer and trans studies will be available as part of the Indigenous Studies major in the Bachelor of Arts program at Macquarie University beginning February 2020. Institutionalization of Indigenous queer and trans studies occurs in a context in which education and institutionalization have been tools of settler colonialism used against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This article considers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isl…
Queer(y)ing Indigenous Australian higher education student spaces
For many Queer and Gender Diverse (QGD) Indigenous Australian people, there is little to no separation between our queer or gender identity, and our cultural identity. We are increasingly calling upon institutions to consider and cater to our identities and the needs which correlate with such identities. This paper discusses the findings of a project that investigated the ways in which QGD Indigenous Australian students are included, or not, in t…
Indigenist Origins
Indigenous queer and trans studies will be available as part of the Indigenous Studies major in the Bachelor of Arts program at Macquarie University beginning February 2020. Institutionalization of Indigenous queer and trans studies occurs in a context in which education and institutionalization have been tools of settler colonialism used against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This article considers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isl…
Introducing the Covid-19 Special Issue: Indigenous academics’ resilience during the coronavirus pandemic
The current pandemic reignites painful memories of Indigenous peoples’ encounters with infectiousdisease brought by colonization and the resultant legacy of devastation. We are not strangers to theimpacts on economic, governance, education, welfare, and cultural fronts. Despite the magnitude ofthis challenge, Indigenous academics are rising to the call in innovative ways – proving once again the creativity, strength, and resilience of Indigenous …
Remembering Lugones: The Critical Potential of Heterosexualism for Studies of So-Called Australia
Heterosexualism is inextricably tied to coloniality and modernity. This paper explores the potential of Argentinian philosopher Maria Lugones’ theorisations of heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system for sustained critical engagement with settler colonialism in so-called Australia. ‘Heterosexualism’ refers to a system of relations between settlers and Indigenous peoples characterized by racialized and gendered power dynamics. Lugone…
Supplemental Material for Meh, Whatever: The Effects of Indifference Expressions on Cooperation in Social Conflict
The Question, or Who Asks for Evidence of Queerness in Aboriginal Culture?
This chapter is based on a keynote for the Digital Intimacies conference in 2022. The theme of the conference was Relational Futures. The chapter responds to the frequently asked question: ‘Is there evidence of queerness and transness in Aboriginal culture prior to colonisation?&s; The author reflects on key thinkers and texts in Indigenous Studies, and Indigenous Feminism and Queer Studies which frame anti-colonial thinking around sexuality, gen…
So-Called Sovereign Settlers: Settler Conspirituality and Nativism in the Australian Anti-Vax Movement
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the social and economic instability that followed, has given new life to conspirituality and far-right ideology in so-called Australia. This article discusses how politico-spiritual communities invested in both conspiracy theories and New Age spirituality have pieced together settler narratives about a New World Order and external threats to Western society from far-right and white supremacist Christian ideology circula…
Global Indigenous futures: A new research agenda
This chapter sets the agenda for the book beginning with the violence of settler colonialism this chapter introduces global Indigenous thinkers, activists, knowledge holders and scholars who identify, reject and respond to epistemic violence with acts of self-determination and sovereignty. This chapter highlights the ways in which Indigenous peoples articulate what it means to be ‘Indigenous’ in an increasingly connected and globalised world. The…
Indigiqueer futures: A conversation between Indigenous non-binary academics
This chapter is a conversational piece with Dr Percy Lezard and Dr Sandy O'Sullivan focused on their careers and work as Indigenous queer, non-binary academics enduring two different settler colonial nations - Australia and Canada. Centered on questions about the relationships between activism and academia, and gender and colonialism, and the conversation considers the realities and complexities of queerness and Indigeneity in higher education. T…
Supplemental Material for Pain Sensitivity Predicts Support for Moral and Political Views Across the Aisle
The Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures
Indigenous peoples, digital leisure, and popular culture
This is the introductory article for the special issue "Indigenous peoples, digital leisure, and popular culture". Following the 2016 issue of AlterNative edited by Michelle Harris and Bronwyn Carlson "Indigenous people, popular pleasure and the everyday", this article comments on the continued influence of the former issue and offers some new commentary on Indigenous popular and digital leisure today
Trash Tiddas: Blak queers, terrible TV and the Blachelorette
Trash Tiddas is a podcast about Blak-a reclaiming of Black from English as a colonising language, and used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people-Millennial life and culture produced by First Nations digital content platform Awesome Black. In this article, the hosts Tully DeVries, Amy LF and Brooke Scobie speak with Madi Day about the cultural significance of Brooke Blurton's season as Australia's first Blachelorette-Blak, queer Bachelor…
Goanna Walking: A Rubric to Measure Transformation in Critical Indigenous Studies Students
By Madi Day, Percy Lezard & 19 more. This rubric is designed for Indigenist and anti-colonial approaches to teaching. It was created in collaboration with more than 20 Indigenous scholars from so-called Australia, Aotearoa and Turtle Island
Indigenous (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works)