Tyson Yunkaporta
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752 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 10 Jun
Tyson Yunkaporta’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they've got that big totemic connection to reindeer.
And so, you know, I guess you go to these sort of international events with international Indigenous people, you know, all around the world.
And then there's these people who they, you know, they've got yellow hair, blonde hair, like rosy cheeks, you know, blue eyes, all that sort of thing.
And, you know, in the same room with Maoris and
you know, Apaches and all kinds of things.
And, um, you can see everybody doing a double take.
What are they doing here?
But then they start talking and it's like, oh, that's just like talking to Artie or something.
It made me start thinking a lot about, um, color and, and all this sort of thing.
And a lot of the preconceived ideas and attachments we have to, to the, you know, the image of what an indigenous person is and these kinds of racialized ideas of whiteness.
Oh, not for, well, because, you know, I'm looking after very young babies and working full time and then trying to do all this book stuff.
And yeah, this pretty much hasn't been time for a couple of years.
So you just read trash then?
Yeah, like just something that'll put me to sleep at night.
I can read a dozen pages of it.
I never even know who the authors are that I'm reading.
I just get like $2 things on my Kindle.
booksellers gonna hate my guts for saying that but um i really like viking anything with vikings in it i've got like a i've got a viking fetish you must have been delighted then when we gave you michael christie's 500 page novel greenwood so why don't we move into the trees and we'll start on that one oh i resented having to engage my heart in something
Well, firstly, him and how believable.
I tell you, what I can't believe is that his wife's letting him go on a book tour without her.
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