#blackfella

[bakuraryxu]

i keep seeing art of self insert characters and im like jmmmmm i dont want to sound mean but why are you bitches so obsessed wifh white people. and then i wake the fuck up to myself

[blubushie]

If you're white you shouldn't be appropriating Indigenous deities. Get your own pagan one or something from whatever white country your ancestors are from. Also I'm not Australian but I'd imagine calling Aboriginal Australians "blackfella" is hella racist. Do better

Did your mum drop you on your head as a baby?

Literally go outside and lick salt. Touch grass. Breathe air. Talk to literally any blackfella so they can belt you for your stupidity.

[the-boy-branithar]

Real ones remember the original "my job is just beach"

[innervoiceartblog]

Uluru Statement from the Heart - Background Video

[merryfortune]

my two cents on the modern art discourse as an art gallery worker who loves modern art and yet works at an art gallery which has soft banned modern art from displaying.

People hate ugly things.

They automatically consider something ugly to be bad.

If it was good, it was beautiful and if it is beautiful it is good.

Deeper messages? No thank you, I want to look at pretty things and I will get pissy at you if you explain that the trash on the floor (<- actual quote I was told to to my face about one of the artworks)

Even though I connected every artwork in that exhibition back to dadaism and modern art of the 80s, I wasn't able to change a single mind of someone who had already decided they hated it. They didn't care that the artist's praxis was about sustainability and using local sources to make her own paint & dye, they wanted to see landscapes made from cheap acrylics. I was in agony that the average Joe who came in didn't know who Barbra Kreuger was or who Marcel Duchamp was. They didn't want to know.

I also think anti-youth sentiment, so many people complained that it was too inner-city student, and "I'm not racist, I don't use slurs but those blackfellas who leech off gov-lov need to get a job, boohoo the stolen generation didn't have an impact!" type racism also plays a part. Like the "trash on the floor" comment was made about an Indigenous artist's work which was named in reference to the removal of certain, racist policies affecting First Nations people.

I loved these artworks, I tried to get other people to see why I loved them so much but it was an uphill battle I lost. But I did get to put my cunt of an aunt in her place so thank you for that at the very least.

[oscconfessions]

People can draw human Suitcase how ever they like, she’s not my character, but if I see anyone draw her as anything but blackfella… I’ll silently judge you. Give you a little side eye perhaps, slowly drink my beverage while starring… I don’t know, just… judging you. /silly /silly /silly

-🩵

.

[lehhoh7822]

i was being approahced by old white people on the street asking if i would vote no. and you know. i was getting tired of things like that. tired of the stupid debates tired of the fucking racism the inability to give a fuck. the dark side, i guess, of australia not giving a sdhit about anything.

and then we lost it. watching youtube comment sections call us slurs and ask why we never took accountability. tazlking about how oppressed white people are. how fucking priviledged we are over them. the poor convicts. i couldnt give less of a shit.

and then we lost it. god ITS NOT HARD

ITS NOT HARD AUSTRLIAS

I CANT

i just. jesus fucking chrsit. there was a speech from a stolen generation survivor: a woman who is alive who was abducted, abused, raped and sent into slavery, robbed of her family and her culture telling us that we need a voice because THAT is what happens when they dont give blackfellas a voice

my grandparents and great grandparents never took their children to doctors for fear of them being TAKEN AWAY

iwas the only indigenous student during my tenure at the highest selective school in my state. the only one in a school of almost 1000

if you dont know, by npw, after MONTHS to learn.

then you CHOSE not to FUCKING KNOW

[nationalvyvanseshortage]

Got to be the Most Annoying Customer at the Athletes Foot today! (not an athlete. Do not look like I'm even trying to be an athlete. Wanted all their little tests. Tests showed I have very special and Quite Peculiar feet (blackfella). Tried every shoe they brought me twice. Annoyingly asked the guy to clarify that the clearly plastic shoe wasn't "leather" at all. Looked shocked when they told me most walking shoes only last a few months of regular use. Made sure to clarify their return policy. Only bought the cheapest shoe they brought out after all of that (not a price thing, the others were just squeaky and Not Right for my Peculiar Feet).)

[thenixkat]

Black Superpower Breakdown Re

Considering redoing that Black Superpower project but a bit more detailed/properly broken down. While it will definitely take *awhile* for listing shit and even longer for crunching the numbers and making graphs I’d like to get suggestions for characters to include.

For the purposes of this project, any Black character from a work of speculative fiction where there are people with supernatural or superscience powers/abilities are in it are viable even if the character in question does not have powers (the absence of powers is also valuable data). And Black means any group racialized as Black which is not limited to people of indigenous African descent. This includes Melanesians, Blackfellas, Torres Straight Islanders, and more folks than just Black Africans and their diaspora. 

There will be 4 major categories for characters: Confirmed Black, Ambiguous Brown Bitches, Visibly Nonhuman, Claimed by the Community.

- Confirmed Black- there’s characters are unmistakably visibly Black. Confirmed to be Black by the creator. A openly bigoted white bitch would look at them and go “Nigger!” with zero modifiers.

- Ambiguous Brown Bitches- Characters who are visibly brown but, especially in nonlive action media, are not actually given any specific visibly ethnic features. The kinds of bitches that any medium to darkskin bitch of any race could look at and go ‘That Me!’. Those kinda bitches.

- Visibly Nonhuman- Fuckers who do not look human but ... you know they Black. Whether its b/c the actor wearing the makeup is Black, or the voice actor is Black and gives the character a Black voice, or the design aspects invoke/reference Black stuff. 

- Claimed by the Community-  those characters that you’d be hard pressed to actually define and defend what makes them Black but a good number of Black folks claim the bitch for the community.

Still working out what specific powers and nonpower abilities will be termed as. But for character suggestions pls include: - Real Name and Code Name if applicable - Media of origin - Their powers and if they don’t have powers what technology/weapons/bonds are they using that makes them stand out from the average joe (ie. supersuits; cybernetics; pet monsters; martial arts; shit tons of money; etc) - Gender - Age/Life stage - Ethnicity if known - Species

[pineapplerightsideupcake]

You've got yourself a massive victim complex. Ohh, the men are out to get you. All anon hate is always by some evil, evil men. And they're always wrong and being mean to you. And you love bragging about how empowered and strong you are, how entertained you are by all the perceived capital h Hate.

The only thing spoken in Oz even remotely similar to the n word is the word abo. The slur against blackfellas. Get your head on the right way, mate.

Hope you have a nice day

Forgot to come on anon?

I don’t think only men send me hate. In fact given this is tumblr probably most of my hate comes from butthurt TiFs.

I promise you they have the N word in Australia lmao and “cunt” is a sexist slur that you used against a stranger.

I’m not hurt by your words and I’m not the one that sends anonymous hate messages so I think it’s clear who needs to get their head on straight.

[bakuraryxu]

ordered my naidoc 2024 shirt and i cant WAITTTTTT

[blubushie]

I've heard about the dog fence, any fun facts?

Longest fence in the world (~5600km long, that's about ~3500mi to you yanks). That's longer than China's Great Wall.

Built in the 1880s to protect the best grazing regions from "dingo incursion" while we killed all the dogs south of the fence. There's still dogs south of the fence but it was largely a success. Within the fence is also the only place in Australia where it's legal to kill dingos—they're protected everywhere else.

The fence was effective at first but time has not been kind. It's full of holes now big enough for pups to pass through, and it costs about $1.3milAUD annually to maintain it.

It's also affected the environment south of the fence because of how the land has been changed by grazing animals. Wind doesn't even move the same as it did and the vegetation is different compared to the same climate just north of the fence.

Goes through three states (QLD, NSW, and SA). All of these have the highest concentration of dingos. The only state within the fence without TOUCHING it, Victoria—south of NSW—has the lowest concentration of dingos, but also has a lot of feral dogs instead.

More interesting (to me) is the rabbit-proof fence (which is not in any way actually rabbit proof). It's typically overshadowed by the dingo fence (rabbit fence—counting all three of them—is only ~3250km or ~2025mi, so it's a bit smaller than the dingo fence even though the #1 Fence was the longest unbroken fence in the world at the time of its building, at ~1830km or ~1140mi long) but I find the story of it far more... iunno, moving I guess? The concept of strict borders is a foreign one in Australia. Borders come and go with the seasons and movement of the mobs. And both of the fences cut across Country with jagged edge at a time when blackfellas were just trying to survive the onslaught of colonial white Australia that wanted them all dead or assimilated. Naturally this made travel difficult, especially when you're being shot at.

Read Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Nugi Garimara. It's the true story of the author's mother's journey (along with her mum's sister and cousin) back home to their Country on foot after they were taken by the white government and sent to a mission as part of the Stolen Generations (Nugi's mother and aunt were both half-white, so considered half-caste by the government and weren't allowed to be raised by their black mothers). It'll break your heart but it's a necessary read. Nugi Garimara herself also ended up a stolen child at around 3yo (as she was ¼ white), but reunited with her mother about 20yr later. Her sister (I don't know her birth name) was also stolen and raised at a mission, but her sister never went back to Country and distanced herself from her heritage as I recall.

[saltyground]

Neil Murray of the Warumpi Band, Blackfella/Whitefella Tour 1986

[songsofprotestpeacerevolution]

Blackfella / Whitefella (2015 Remaster) · Warumpi Band

[nando161mando]

'The Voice is simply yet another Aboriginal advisory body. And we’ve got a long history, at least a fifty-year history, of Aboriginal advisory bodies.'

@paddygibson interviews Professor Gary Foley on the Voice referendum debate

[workersbushtelegraph]

Police murder blackfella in Toowoomba