Abstract
A piece of writing that links the impact of colonialism to the lives of contemporary Indigenous peoples, particularly through a focus on the sexual abuse of women, through the histories of two similar women.
Highlights
On the eleventh of November 1614, a cartographer clambered aboard the Eendracht, bound for Batavia by way of the Great South Land
When he unpacked his belongings, he realised he’d forgotten something. He wrote to his wife in Dutch
On the first of April 1789, a man who stole a lump of bread shuffled aboard the Kitty bound for a less than hospitable penal colony
Summary
On the eleventh of November 1614, a cartographer clambered aboard the Eendracht, bound for Batavia by way of the Great South Land. ‘Maybe it’s me, but I don’t have a good feeling about this.’ Cutting open her mattress, she inserted the story deep inside the springs. One night when her mother was at bingo, he rocked the bed so much that the vial inside her troubled head broke open. The stars were people of varying light.
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