The global sweep of the Black Lives Matter movement was “extremely important”, says Boyd: “[Australians] let their guards down when they saw what was happening elsewhere, not understanding that [injustice] was happening here. And it’s been happening here forever.”With Treasure Island, Boyd hopes to unpack the unacknowledged history of slavery in Australia. His own great-great-grandfather, Samuel, was kidnapped from Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, and enslaved on Queensland’s sugar cane fields.
Did Boyd, born in 1982, feel a connection to Country? While pandemic lockdowns have restricted his travel back to Cairns of late, Boyd has been learning more about his ancestral connections to different places. “You create associations if you’re dislocated. You have to,” he says.Photograph: © Daniel Boyd
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