Dancing with an Illegitimate Feminism: A Female Buginese Scholar’s Voice in Australian Academia

Sharing this article, the act of writing and then having it read, legitimises the point of it – that is, we (and we speak on behalf of each other here) managed to negotiate western academic expectations and norms from a justaslegitimatebutnotalways heard female Buginese perspective written in Standard Australian English (not my first choiceoflanguage and I speak on behalf of myself). At times we transgressed roles, guiding and following each other through different academic, cultural, social, and linguistic domains until we stumbled upon ways of legitimating our entanglement of experiences, when we heard the similar, faint, drum beat across boundaries and journeys.