I am looking for recommendations* for fiction books authored by Indigenous people. It doesn't matter which country. Any genre of fiction is fine. Please boost?

*I am looking for personal recommendations, please don't just Google this for me.

A Welcome to Country isn't welcoming you to Australia, you fucking losers.

It's welcoming you to the specific Aboriginal Country that the event you're attending is occurring on.

It's not directed at settlers to remind you that you're settlers - be honest, nothing we do is going to address your entitlement.

It's for everyone who isn't a part of that Aboriginal community, and it's a WELCOME.

Only someone desperate to be a victim would find a ritual designed to literally WELCOME them into a shared space alienating.

Y'all must've been super confused when your mother's would welcome you home from school, huh?

Two of the BPU’s most committed organisers are at breaking point after a traumatic 18 months. These are good, hardworking people who have given everything to the community, and right now, they need the community to have their backs.

A recent act of financial abuse has left them in crisis, forcing them to cover urgent costs for accommodation, relocation, and medical needs. We’re aiming to raise $10,000 to help them regain stability.

Please donate what you can and share this fundraiser widely. Solidarity is everything.

https://chuffed.org/project/124457-support-two-bpu-organisers-in-crisis

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #Australia #Decolonise #BPU #BlackPeoplesUnion #MutualAid #PleaseShare #PleaseHelp #AboriginalMutualAid #BlackMutualAid
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[shared from the BPU Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18mWsNpYmi/]

Australia's own #pride #map Somebody should have had this handy when the expresion "terra nullius" was first coined
#IloveAustralia #aboriginal #country #diversity

The leader of the Federal opposition in Australia Peter Dutton says he will not stand beside the #Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags at press conferences if he becomes prime minister, insisting Australians should be unified under a single national flag.

#Colonialism is alive and thriving in #Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-10/dutton-wont-use-indigenous-flags-at-press-as-prime-minister/104706118

It's called "justice reinvestment", and it's the idea that we put money into the prevention of crime by giving it to community-led programs that will support people and address the drivers of contact with the criminal justice system.

We know that the biggest driver towards criminal behaviour is poverty, and if governments really want to address crime (as they all claim they do), they'd be addressing poverty.

Governments talk about engaging in justice reinvestment, but when you look at the amount of money they give to these programs ($17.25m in Australia) and compare it to the amount they waste on obsolete submarines ($368 BILLION), you get more of a sense of what's actually happening.

New Podcast! "23 August 1966: Wave Hill walk-off" on @Spreaker #aboriginal #australia #history https://www.spreaker.com/episode/23-august-1966-wave-hill-walk-off--61120718?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Gunn’s breakdancing at the Paris Olympics wasn’t just an embarrassing series of missteps—it represented something even more sinister.

Her viral performance was a modern-day minstrel show, where cultural appropriation masqueraded as athleticism, and a global audience was invited to laugh at the crude distortion of a cultural expression once demonized because it originated with Black urban youth. Gunn stripped away the history, socio-political significance, and skill behind breakdancing, reducing it to a caricature for the world to mock."

"She took her tone-deaf display of privilege to the world stage, wrapped in the delusion that academic interest gives her a free pass to dabble in a culture that’s not hers while disrespecting the people and artistic expressions she claims to study."

#Aboriginal #Indigenous #racism #Australia #olympics #OlympicBreakdance #AustralianBreakdancing #RayGun

https://newsone.com/5474349/olympic-breakdancing-rachael-raygun-gunn/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEnYfBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeu35DDKU7NHdVuHThHQXvDz1GJAPtDQAiE98Nch1XMUUTFA8qlbHJwTyA_aem_3dzOi_8sUpZxXUh_dq4i0w

[ Festival Tickets https://www.trybooking.com/CSWJG ]

FLICKERFEST 2024 INDIGENOUS SPOTLIGHT SHORTS
Sat 21 Sep 7:45pm, Huskisson Pictures

Flickerfest & Shoalhaven First Nations Film Festival (SFNFF) are thrilled to present an inspiring evening of First Nations storytelling celebrating First Nation Filmmakers.

Flickerfest has made a special selection of 9 stunning short films from First Nations filmmakers, and they have provided those films to SFNFF to be shown at our festival.

Check the image provided for the names and details of all these wonderful films; and don't miss this your chance to watch them in Huskisson. There are still tickets available but must be quick!

Film Trailer: https://vimeo.com/900677384

#filmfestival #films #huskisson #shoalhaven
#TicketsOnSale #firstnations
#aboriginal #aboriginalculture

I admin a local "pantry" group on Facebook, for food sharing. Basically, if you have food (or other stuff, but mostly food) that you don't want for whatever reason you can post it in the group and give it away. It stops good being thrown out and wasted, and helps people who might be going hungry otherwise.

Tonight a woman put up a post talking about how she's a young mum with two small boys, and that they were out of food until Thursday. She talked about how she was embarrassed to ask but really needed help.

Two women answered the post, offering food. The OP explained that she didn't drive and would it be ok of people dropped things at her place, so I offered to drive around and collect the things people were giving and drop them at her place. I don't have spare food I can help with, but I have a car and I have time.

The second woman I collected from was someone I actually met at the beginning of the year, when she posted in the group and asked for help with cleaning supplies.. I gave her a bunch of things I had tucked away under the sink and didn't use.

She had told me then about how her partner had just been diagnosed with cancer. She told me tonight how she'd stayed in the group because she was waiting for the opportunity to help someone else because we'd helped her so much. She's doing better now, and it made her feel happy she could help someone else.

When I dropped the food these two women had given to the OP, she talked to me about how her partner had died suddenly the year before, leaving her with two young boys.. both with autism and ADHD. She said she's 31 and doesn't have her life together yet. I told her I'm 50 and mines a mess too. I told her that one of the women who had offered food was someone the group had helped previously, and how happy she'd been to be able to help as well. We talked about how community means not only helping people, but also being helped. We talked about how this means that our communities are stronger and prosper together. She's looking forward to being able to help someone else too.

This is how mutual aid works. No matter how dark things get, we can find hope in community.

Australia is getting a new Indigenous music label.

Announced just after NAIDOC Week 2024, Universal Music Australia is throwing its considerable muscle behind the country’s Indigenous music community with its new label, Irruk Birruk.

As reported by The Music Network, a statement says the new label launches with a “mission to amplify the voices of Indigenous artists and celebrate their rich cultural heritage.”

Find out more about the new label at Tone Deaf: https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/universal-music-australia-launches-indigenous-music-label/

From 2020: Why #Aboriginal people have little say over energy projects on their land

Published: August 10, 2020
by Lilly O'Neill, et al.

"Renewable energy projects come with a caveat: most #TraditionalOwners in #Australia have little legal say over them.

- The #NativeTitleAct does not allow traditional owners to veto developments proposed for their land.

- The National Native Title Tribunal — which rules on disputes between native title holders and #companies — has sided with native title holders only three times, and with companies 126 times (of which 55 had conditions attached).

- #RioTinto’s agreement for the area including #JuukanGorge reportedly “gagged” traditional owners from objecting to any activities by the company, which then destroyed the 46,000-year-old rock shelters.

Read more:
https://theconversation.com/why-aboriginal-people-have-little-say-over-energy-projects-on-their-land-139119