Professor Sandy O'Sullivan (they/them) is a Wiradjuri person and the Director of Research and Innovation in the Centre for Critical Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. They have been an academic for 35 years working across museums and archives, gender and queer studies, and across the ways that Indigenous Knowledges are appropriated or misappropriated across these areas. They recently completed an ARC Future Fellowship mapping the influence and power of Indigenous queer creativity, this follows on from a major ARC project on the capacity of 470 museums to reflect and engage Indigenous peoples.   They have a particular interest in citational justice and in archival practices across the GLAM sector and have created multiple lists of Indigenous writing and Knowledges, including the 2020 101 Links to Black Writers and Voices for Austlit’s BlackWords, and an updating list that centres Indigenous queer theorists found on the Queer As… website. 

LinkedIn| ORCID

Yanti Ropeyarn (she/her/they/them) is the Research and Ethics Training Program Coordinator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), based at Macquarie University. Yanti recently completed a Master of Research in Critical Indigenous Studies, where her work focused on Indigenous citational practices and intellectual sovereignty. Her thesis, Righteous Rebellion: Asserting Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty through a Blak Site’ation System, explores how citation practices can be reimagined to respectfully centre Indigenous epistemologies and Knowledge Systems. Yanti is a proud descendant of the Angkamuthi (West Cape York), Yadhaykenu (East Cape York), Meriam (Dauar), and Woppaburra (Kanomie) Peoples. 

LinkedIn