Part of the Creative Writing Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, and the Higher Education and Teaching Commons Recommended Citation Recommended Citation Anae, N. (2014). "Creative Writing as Freedom, Education as Exploration": creative writing as literary and visual arts pedagogy in the first year teacher-education experience.

While transgender people -Sistergirls and Brotherboyshave reportedly been part of Australian Aboriginal/Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander culture long before European colonisation, it is only relatively recently that documentaries and short documentaries (short-docs) have focused specific attention on the Brotherboy community. The term Brotherboy (sometimes "Brothaboy" or "Brotha boy") is used by Australian Aboriginal female-assigned individuals who identify as, and live partly or fully as men. Within a cultural moment tracking the beginnings of a broader visibility of Brotherboys within contemporary Australian film and television programs, this article explores the ways in which the documentary as a form of visual representation not only confronts the discourse of Brotherboy invisibility in terms of selfrepresentation/trans representation, but also how the form itself operates to inform Australian Indigenous communities of the various challenges Brotherboys face in negotiating their transition alongside strictly observed Indigenous cultural practices, and, in many cases strictly held spiritual beliefs in the expression and fashioning of the self.

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