Struggling with Silence: Rachel Perkins' Black Panther Woman

Even the most well-meaning movement can be plagued with a malicious underside. Julia Scott-Stevenson explores this idea in Black Panther Woman, which tells the story of Marlene Cummins and reveals the tribulations she and other women faced as part of the Australian counterpart of the black rights movement.

Additional keywords: Aboriginal, Indigenous, civil rights, racism, oppression, feminism, sexism, misogyny, patriarchy, sexual abuse, protest, Denis Walker, Redfern, Kathleen Cleaver, Martin Luther King Jr, Zainab Abbas, Isabel Coe, Koori.