Abstract
In 2020, FREEMAN became the most-watched documentary in Australia. This article situates the film’s intercultural, multivocal, and multiperspectival story of Cathy Freeman’s gold-medal win at the Sydney 2000 Olympics in three contemporary contexts: the Trailblazers collection of sports documentaries that entertained Australians during COVID-19 lockdowns; the Black Lives Matter protests in Australia cities and towns that defied COVID-19 bans in 2020 and provided a context for remembering Cathy Freeman as a Black activist in the 1990s; and a First Nations context that recognizes Freeman as a Kuku Yalanji woman whose public roles have helped to transform the terms of stranger relationality between Indigenous, settler-colonial, and immigrant Australians.
Recommended Citation
Collins, Felicity
(2020)
"Cathy FREEMAN: Trailblazer, Black Activist, Kuku Yalanji Woman,"
Antipodes: Vol. 34:
Iss.
2, Article 11.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/antipodes/vol34/iss2/11