Before moving to Tamworth, New South Wales four years after Sen was born, in his mother’s efforts to escape domestic violence, the family would regularly visit her birthplace, Toomelah. The Aboriginal community there was the last destination of three forced relocations of the Gamilaroi. Founded in 1937 by the New South Wales government, Toomelah turned from reservation into mission, but is also called a station, and has a history of precarious conditions and harming policies. Sen’s mother herself was taken away at the age of fourteen to serve as cheap, forced labor at a remote farm.