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Teela Reid

Teela Reid is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer, essayist, storyteller and co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub, a platform that honours First Nation’s ancestors as the original storytellers. Currently, Teela is…

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Teela Reid is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer, essayist, storyteller and co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub, a platform that honours First Nation’s ancestors as the original storytellers. Currently, Teela is a Sydney-based senior solicitor practicing in Aboriginal Land Rights litigation and is the current practitioner in residence at Sydney Law School. She is also a campaigner for the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

This year, Teela is the contribution editor for the Griffith Review ‘Acts of Reckoning’ Edition 2022. Her essay is titled The Power of the First Nations Matriarchy: Warrior Women Reckoning with the Colony.

Teela has also contributed to the Sydney Morning Herald, Washington Post, The Guardian, Marie Claire and The National Indigenous Times.

Teela Reid

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Newcastle Writers Festival would like to acknowledge the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the festival takes place, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend this respect to all First Nations people attending our festival.

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