Synopsis:Birthing holds a different significance for Indigenous communities that have experienced colonial attempts at elimination. For scholar, poet and irredentist Alice Te Punga Somerville, (Te Āti Awa, Taranaki), birth is an act of resistance. She joins us to talk about her journey to parenthood and her experiences as a scholar who traverses between Indigeneity and migrancy. Notes:UBC academic pagePersonal websiteAlice Te Punga Somerville: My story as told to Elisabeth EastherAlice Te Punga Somerville and the politics of italicsImportant reading and writing questions for Alice Te Punga SomervilleWriting while colonisedBuy her first book of poetryMusic:Music in this episode includes ‘SMOOTH LIFE’ by Killer Chops used under an Audio Standard Licence from Adobe Stock.Birthing and Justice is written and produced by Dr Ruth De Souza on the traditional and unceded lands of the Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nations. Sound editing by Olivia Smith.