Episode Three: Dr Emma Lee on ‘real, revolutionary love’

Dr Emma Lee is a trawlwulwuy woman from tebrakunna country, north-east Tasmania. She is a leader, advisor and multi award-winning academic at the Center for Social Impact at the Swinburne University of Technology. 

We first came across Dr Lee in 2019, reading her article, “We love-bombed the Tasmanian government to win Indigenous rights.” In it, Dr Lee describes incredible advances in not only rights, but relationships, that she helped progress in just five years — using what she describes as ‘real, revolutionary love.’ 

In this conversation Dr Lee talks to us about love, about being a warrior who is gentle with herself and others, about loving Country and letting Country love us back; about loving and belonging to Country and to each other.  She offers a gentle, wise, warm and love-filled invitation into a different way of looking at failure, inclusion, activism, human relationships and so much more.

The reMAKERS is recorded on Darug Country and we celebrate the Traditional Custodians of these lands and waters, honouring Elders past and present.

Show notes

Here are some of the things we mention:

“We love-bombed the Tasmanian government to win Indigenous rights,” by Dr Emma Lee,

“In this Reconciliation Week of healing country, are you an activist or a warrior?” by Dr Emma Lee

The Orb, world-leading Indigenous education in Tasmania

‘(R)evolutionary Love project from Ireland (referenced during episode, mentioned in Dr Lee’s love-bombing article)