What inspired you to write Not Meeting Mr Right?
As a Koori woman living in Sydney, home to the largest gay population in the world, finding a man to marry ‘black or white’ was always going to be a challenge. After a decade of dates from hell, being stood up and put down, cheated on and lied to, the mere thought of meeting a decent guy was almost laughable. But analysing and researching how to do it was fun and exciting! Trying to find Mr Right myself gave me lots of material for a book that I knew single women the country over would relate to. I have written and published about the politics of identity, the Stolen Generations and Indigenous issues generally. But I also want to write about other aspects of my life. I shop for bras, menstruate, queue for toilets in nightclubs and shop at Tiffany’s whenever possible. These are things many women do, black or white. So I wrote a book that I’d like to read, in the hope that other women would chuckle over it and nod in agreement at how desperately hard it is to meet Mr Right, in Sydney, in
