We Need To Talk About Whiteness - with Alison Croggon
Ep 37: A terrible secret - Alison Croggon is an award-winning novelist, poet, theatre writer, critic and editor living in Melbourne, Australia. Her latest book "Monsters" is a memoir exploring the impact of whiteness within a family when the uncovering of a colonialist heritage evokes anger and denial within an already fraught relationship. It's been described by the Guardian as "an unsparing cultural and self-reckoning". She joins me to talk white guilt, the legacy of empire and confronting one's colonialist past.