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.

Natalie Harkin is a Narungga creative arts-based Research Fellow with the Indigenous Studies team at Flinders University (Adelaide), Kaurna Yerta. She is passionate about archival justice, engaging archival-poetic methods to document community Memory Stories, and Indigenous Living-Legacy archive innovations for our time. Her books include Dirty Words (Cordite Books) and Archival-Poetics (Vagabond Press).

K.A Ren Wyld is a writer of Martu descent, living on the coast south of Adelaide. Ren's fourth book, Whichway Shimmering Dust, will be published by UQP early 2027.

This free event is part of Constellations 2026, the community-led response to the attempts to silence Palestinian voices at Adelaide Writers' Week. We stand in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.

This event is free and is made possible through volunteer efforts. All authors are being paid ASA rates, made possible through donations and sponsorship. We would appreciate any donation you are able to make.

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