'Protocols of Transference', by Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, read by Dakotah Love

This week's short story is 'Protocols of Transference' by Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, a Nyungar technologist, writer, and digital rights activist living on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar, Western Australia.

Build a mechanical brain to hold and remember First Nations stories. 'Protocols of Transference's' narrator is a First Nation person who is gathering and saving Indigenous stories. They do this by building a digital and mechanical brain to hold the many stories that have been taken from Australia’s first peoples, and which they collectively mourn the loss of – and in this story - work to recover and revive.

The story is read by Dakotah Love, an upcoming talent and recent graduate of NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Dakotah is a proud First Nations artist of the Anēwan mob, Armidale, New South Wales. 

'Protocols of Transference', Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, in This All Come Back Now: an anthology of First Nations speculative fiction, edited by Mikaela Saunders, UQP, 2022.

StorySALOON acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first storytellers of this land. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, as we create and perform on unceded Gadigal land.