ABSTRACT
The opening chapter of this book begins in acknowledgement. An acknowledgement is a formal process whereby Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander first peoples are recognised and respected publicly as the sovereign owners of a country that was never ceded to colonial authority. I seek to acknowledge the Yanyuwa, Garrwa, Mara and Kudanji women without whom I would never have been able to call myself a feminist autoethnographer and foreground the understandings gifted to me about what being kundiyarra might come to mean as “sisterhood” between us. My positioning on the borderlands as a white-settler-colonial-woman “being in relationality with” Yanyuwa, Garrwa, Mara and Kudanji women and as a mother to two Yanyuwa sons engaged in feminist thinking, wondering and writing is interrogated as central to living a feminist autoethnographic life.
