An Anti-Colonial Approach to Abolition: Building Intentional Relations

Abstract

Thalia Anthony is a mother, activist and academic who lives, works, and brings up her children on the unceded lands of the Eora Nation. She is proud of her Cypriot heritage and her long matrilineal and patrilineal lines of resisters to British and Turkish military occupation. She raises her children to act in solidarity with ongoing struggles against colonialism. Thalia is a Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney where she researches systemic colonial injustices against First Nations people and imagines a world where our unity prevails over the structures that divide us.