This article explores the truth-telling practices of ‘comfort women’ memory activism through the lens of coloniality and decoloniality. It examines how the colonial legacy has silenced and marginalised the voice of survivors and activists in their past and ongoing pursuit of truth and justice. This study discusses the transnational and transgenerational aspects of truth-telling practices with a focus on memory activism in Australia. Australia's historical connections to ‘comfort women’ and diasporic space for decolonial encounters have enriched memory activism in Australia. The article highlights that truth-telling practices of survivors and activists have challenged the coloniality of power, knowledge and gender by valuing marginalised voices, contesting colonial imaginaries and constructing collective memory for the decolonial present and future. It suggests decolonial praxis as a direction for ‘comfort women’ memory activism in transnational and transgenerational spaces.

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“慰安妇”记忆行动中的殖民性和非殖民性：澳大利亚跨国和跨代的讲真话实践


本文通过殖民性和非殖民性的视角探讨了“慰安妇”记忆行动主义的讲真话实践。它探讨了殖民遗产如何压制和边缘化幸存者和活动人士过去和持续追求真理和正义的声音。本研究讨论了讲真话实践的跨国和跨代方面，重点关注澳大利亚的记忆行动主义。澳大利亚与“慰安妇”的历史联系以及非殖民遭遇的离散空间丰富了澳大利亚的记忆激进主义。文章强调，幸存者和活动人士讲真话的做法通过重视边缘化的声音、质疑殖民想象以及为非殖民化的现在和未来构建集体记忆，挑战了权力、知识和性别的殖民性。它建议非殖民实践作为跨国和跨代空间中“慰安妇”记忆行动主义的方向。