#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

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[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.

[saltyground]

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

[bakuraryxu]

ordered my naidoc 2024 shirt and i cant WAITTTTTT

[blubushie]

Just found out Mavis has an "Aboriginal Australian" OC which is very fucking enraging given how racist she was toward MY MARRKIDJBU, A LITERAL ABORIGINAL CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS ELDER but you know what's even worse than that?

We don't tie our hair like that (it's wrapped like leather dread wraps?? Some mobs have locked hair but they don't wrap/tie it with the Native American leather wrap/tie style or the traditional Jamaican dread wrap style)

He looks like Johnny Depp in POTC I'm not even joking (but I do wish I was). Aboriginal facial structure does not look like that. He looks Afro-Caribbean with that skintone, or MAYBE Persian off his skintone and nose shape. Not Australian Aboriginal. Tell me you didn't even bother to GOOGLE WHAT A BLACKFELLA LOOKS LIKE without telling me

He has TATTOOS when culturally we don't get tattoos, just scarification. We never developed tattoos because the skin is too dark and the ink won't show up, so scarification is traditionally done instead

The tattoo pattern she gave this bloke is--get this-- Samoan/Polynesian herringbone. AND HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL

So y'know nice confirmation that to Mavis every fucking brown person and culture is the same. Racist. This bloke is a mix of at least 2 different races/cultures NONE OF WHICH ARE ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN

Also he's supposedly "fluent in 19 languages" which. Lol no this chick has no idea how long it takes to even grasp language let alone become fluent in them

[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

[abcnewspr]

NEW ABC NEWS STUDIOS DOCU-SERIES ‘NEVER LET HIM GO’ UNEARTHS A HAUNTING TALE OF ANTI-GAY VIOLENCE AND ONE BROTHER’S DECADES-LONG QUEST FOR JUSTICE

Four-Part True-Crime Series Features Real-Time, Crime-Solving Breakthrough, First-Ever Interview With Killer’s Ex-Wife and Key Investigators, Plus Never-Before-Seen Surveillance Footage and Case Evidence

‘Never Let Him Go’ Begins Streaming on Wednesday, Sept. 6, Only on Hulu

When authorities found Scott Johnson’s body at the rocky base of a cliff in Australia in 1988, they declared his death a suicide. The gay American mathematician’s tragic demise and the murky circumstances surrounding it set his older brother Steve Johnson’s decades-long pursuit for answers in motion. “Never Let Him Go,�� a new docu-seriesfrom ABC News Studios, paints an intimate portrait of Scott’s life and untimely death through never-before-seen evidence from the investigation, personal home videos and rare archival footage from 1980s’ Sydney. As Steve’s probe gained international attention, it sparked a public reckoning in Australia, shedding new light on a pattern of violence against the LGBTQ+ community.

While the series was in production, the filmmakers captured a breakthrough in real-time: 35 years after Scott’s death, his killer confessed and was sentenced in June of this year in the New South Wales Supreme Court. The series features an interview with Helen White, the confessed killer’s ex-wife, who breaks her silence for the first time after tipping off the police. The docu-series also features exclusive in-depth interviews with Steve and his family and first-ever interviews with key law enforcement officials who worked on the case. Over four episodes, “Never Let Him Go” traces the intense journey to cracking Scott’s case. With dozens of similar unsolved cases involving gay men in Australia, Steve has been left to decide if his search for justice was complete — or if it had just begun. “Never Let Him Go” begins streaming on Wednesday, Sept. 6, only on Hulu.

“Never Let Him Go” is produced by Show of Force and Blackfella Films for ABC News Studios. Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff are executive producers, and Saralena Weinfield is series producer for Show of Force. Darren Dale and Jacob Hickey are executive producers for Blackfella Films. “Never Let Him Go” is directed by Jeff Dupre and Jacob Hickey. David Sloan is senior executive producer, and Beth Hoppe is executive producer for ABC News Studios. ABC News Studios is led by Mike Kelley, and Reena Mehta is the SVP of Streaming and Digital Content.

About ABC News Studios

ABC News Studios, inspired by ABC News’ trusted reporting, is a premium news and documentary original production house and commissioning partner of series and specials. ABC News Studios champions untold and authentic stories driving the cultural zeitgeist spanning true-crime, investigations, pop culture and news-adjacent stories. ABC News Studios’ original titles include critically acclaimed documentaries “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” “The Lady Bird Diaries,” and “Aftershock” docu-series, including “Killing County,” “Wild Crime,” “Mormon No More,” “The Randall Scandal: Love, Loathing, and Vanderpump,” “Jelly Roll: Save Me” and “Betrayal: The Perfect Husband.”

About Show of Force

Founded in 2006 by Jeff Dupre and Maro Chermayeff, Show of Force is known for creating award-winning feature documentaries and television series. Their 2022 HBO series “Hostages” was recently nominated for three Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Historical Documentary, Writing and Research. Prior work includes “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered,” which won the 2020 IDA Award for Best Multi-part Documentary; the Emmy and Grammy-nominated series “Soundbreaking,” created in partnership with Beatles producer Sir George Martin; “Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present,” which garnered a Peabody Award, an Emmy Award and the Audience Award at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival; and “Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace,” which won the 2014 SXSW Jury Prize and was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination.

About Blackfella Films

For over twenty years leading Australian production company Blackfella Films has created distinctive Australian content for global audiences. International awards include the BANFF International Rockie Award for Best Docu-series, MIPCOM Diversify TV’s Excellence Award for Representation of Race and Ethnicity (Scripted) and multiple New York Festivals Television & Film Gold Awards. Productions have sold to Netflix, Sundance TV/AMC, Acorn and the BBC. Unscripted credits include the changemaking “The Australian Wars” (aka “First Wars”) and “Deep Water: The Real Story” which exposed a gay hate crime epidemic. Scripted content includes “Total Control,” which premiered at TIFF, and the groundbreaking “Redfern Now.”

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