#atsi

[twitterexile]

James Cook:

"All the seem'd to want was for us to be gone."

Botany Bay, 30 April 1770.

[dovand]

anyone know any books/texts on gender in aboriginal australian communities (pre or post invasion), specifically genderqueer identities? all i’ve been able to find is a collection of personal essays, which is cool but not quite what i want (that being historical info). any pointers appreciated!!

[xeno-aligned]

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Walkern

Walkern means rainbow in the Noongar language. It's used by the Walkern Katatdjin project as a term for queer Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI). This flag is used by them as a queer ATSI flag.

Please only use this flag for yourself if you are Aboriginal and/or a Torres Strait Islander! Anyone can reblog and use in pride edits, etc.

[maoist-mizer]

I think Rio Tinto would look lovely on a platter alongside our prime minister 🍴

[kakaimeitahi]

DARK EMU DANCER TALKS OUT AGAINST BRUCE PASCOE’S BEER

A new lager created in collaboration with Bruce Pascoe has stirred controversy due to the inclusion of a Yuin men’s initiation Dreamtime story on the can.

Dark Emu Lager is a beer that was created in collaboration between the Sailor’s Grave Brewing Company in Orbost and Yuin, Bunurong, and Tasmanian author Bruce Pascoe.

Pascoe is the author of the book “Dark Emu” which entered the Australian literary canon in 2014 when it challenged the dominant idea of Aboriginal society being a hunter-gatherer society.

Warren Ngaarae Foster a multi-disciplinary artist danced in the production of Pascoe’s Dark Emu.

He said the Yuin story written on the can of alcohol is special and sacred to the Yuin people.

“It’s one of our lore stories that our old people tell the young men when they have gone through their initiation”.

Mr Foster said Pascoe was adopted into ceremony and lore to the Yuin nation and as an initiated man, he should be more aware of the protocols in sharing the story.

[queerasfact]

It's NAIDOC Week in Australia, acknowledging and celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. You can learn some of their queer stories with Archiving the Aboriginal Rainbow, a queer Indigenous-run blog collecting and sharing contemporary and historical audio, images, articles, and art to celebrate Australia’s Indigenous LGBTIQ, Sistergirl, and Brotherboy communities.

[Image: Poster featuring NAIDOC week logo; artwork of Rainbow Serpent; and white text on black background: “CELEBRATE NAIDOC WEEK Always Was, Always Will Be. 8-15 NOV 2020″]

[popthirdworld]

Black Lives Matter in Australia

Kumanjayi Walker An NT cop shot Walker (19yo Walpiri man) in his grandmother’s house in Nov 2019. Walker was dragged away hurt, then died in the cop station that night. It took hours for an ambulance to get to him. It was too late. NT police claim Walker stabbed the cop before the shooting. Witnesses refute this. The cop has been charged with murder (he’s pleading not guilty).

The cop didn’t have a warrant or permission to enter. ‘NT Intervention’ laws, however, allow cops to go into Black ppl’s homes easily. Black people in NT have less rights that the rest of us to keep police out of their homes.

Tanya Day Day (55yo Yorta Yorta woman) fell asleep, drunk on a train. She wasn’t aggressive or anything, she was sleepy. But “public drunkenness” was a crime. She was put in police custody. She fell and hit her head in custody. It took 3+ hours before the cops noticed the severity and called an ambulance. She died in hospital 17 days later, in Dec 2017.

I’ve been drunk and sleepy on a train before. So have you. Did you get put in custody? I didn’t. Public drunkenness laws are used very selectively. On Black people and also homeless people. Also, if it was a rich white lady in their ‘care’, would they have been so meh about her injury? The Victorian govt has now abolished public drunkenness laws after Day’s case. Good. But they exist elsewhere, and it won’t bring Day back.

In Apr 2020, the coroner concluded that the cops might have been criminally negligent in their treatment of Day. She's referred it to the DPP to investigate.

🔹🔹🔹🔹

That’s just two names. I’m a bit shit with knowing exactly what’s going on with how the cops treat Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in this country. I’m a Greek-Australian guy and it’s not something I’ve ever had any intimate experience with.

But Black Lives Matter, this stuff isn’t just an American thing. We should all do more. And all Australians should know these names – and others like Mulrunji Doomadgee, Mrs Dhu and Kwementyaye Langdon.

If I got anything wrong with these details, sorry let me know. If you want to know more, here’s some good articles to start here (by Amy McQuire) and here (by Thalia Anthony). 

[triumph-of-adaptation]

This photo was taken 3 years ago. What has changed?