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renoriginal:

The Dreamers Design

Creative products celebrating Aboriginal culture. The Dreamers Design is a collective of like minded Indigenous creatives, passionate about finding new ways to promote Aboriginal culture.

The First Line of Defence tee design is a collaboration between Penny Smallacombe and Jessica Johnson. It’s the beginning of a range that honours our Aboriginal warriors of the 1800 period. It is also hoped that the designs will encourage further interest in our past leaders. The designers are currently in consultation with the various communities to seek permission to use these warriors names.

Check out the Dreamers Design website and facebook.

This is too awesome for words. I’m ordering one soon.

kidkongmusic:

KRS ONE 

Too deadly. Mad respect for KRS

This is an awesome idea.

Click the link and watch the presentation.

Have you ever wondered about the traditional owners of the land you’re driving through?

The Blacktracker app and GPS software is in its early development and could offer a digital connection to local indigenous cultures and traditions.

ABC Heywire winners, Angus Gallagher from Armidale, New South Wales, Todd Hayes from Eddington, Victoria, Lance Ashley and Timmy Watson from Hodgson Downs in the Northern Territory developed the idea at the 2012 ABC Heywire Regional Youth Summit.

During the annual summit, the four young men from rural Australia worked with their mentor Rhianna Patrick from ABC Local Radio’s program Speaking Out to form a working group on Indigenous Heritage and Education.

According to Angus Gallagher, “Our aim right from the beginning of our discussions at the Heywire Summit was to create a new way to educate Australians about the heritage and diverse culture that is the history of our country.”

As you drive through Australia, imagine learning the significance of a water hole, the special meaning of a mountain, stories from the past and the culture of the indigenous people.

Todd Hayes believes, “It’s a road trip with a difference that should appeal to international and local travellers and anybody with a passion for history and understanding of Australia indigenous culture.”

“An important part of the project is working with the Aboriginal community and making sure the information is right and culturally appropriate,” he said.

How does it work?

If developed, Blacktracker would use GPS software and a Smartphone app to inform travellers about the traditional heritage of the land they’re passing through.

Blacktracker could provide information like tribal names, languages, traditions and customs, some Indigenous history including links to stories, other relevant websites and landmarks and points of interest in the region.

So far the group have held meetings with the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence (NCIE) and IBM to pitch their idea further.

http://www.abc.net.au/heywire/stories/2012/02/3438106.htm

I sent around an email to all the people who work in my building about the anniversary of the Apology to Indigenous Australians and their families who were removed from their parents and culture.

I must have shaken up some supporters. Found this in the youth drop in space when I got back to work this week.

Also have booked in some Indigenous theatre performances later in the year. These mob gunna respect by the time this lil whitey is through.

In other news, Babes (aka tights as pants) asked me what anal beads are for. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA had to explain why butt play is fun and pleasurable. My influence is everywhere!

stop smiling: Saw these responses to i-like-physics' question to thesavagesalad (aka person believes racism is over in Australia)

thesavagesalad:

photonsandfrisbees:

thesavagesalad:

TW: talks on racism, use of racist speech, talks of genocide, apologist nonsense

photonsandfrisbees:

ayiman said: HOLY. FUCK. Is this like, an accurate picture of white Australians? Indigenous people in…

I am not a typical Non-Indigneous Australian. THANK FUCK.
What a racist arsehole. 

Great logic to rebut all those dumb racist arguments.

Respect to all Australian Indigenous peoples on this Invasion Day.

Terra Nullius was bullshit.

Check this awesome interactive map of Indigenous languages

The ramblings of that girl called Ebs: Today is Australia Day

ramblinggirle:

In theory it is a time of celebration for Australians. A time to reflect upon the great country that we are all members of and how far we have come in such a small period of time.

I guess I say in theory because let’s be honest, Australia day for most Australians is an excuse to get a day off…

rpmfm:

Film Trailer for “The Young Ancestors”

A new film, The Young Ancestors, explores the journey of young people learning their language from their elders.

ramblinggirle:

Wanna see this sooo bad.

I love how there was a word in a native american language for “two spirited” people and that it wasn’t treated with negativity.

I dig the whole spectrum some (maybe most? all?) Indigenous cultures have with gender. 

It is completely bullshit that missions imposed the binary view of gender and only one expression of sexuality and then commercialise non binary genders in the case of kathoeys (ladyboys).

An Open letter from Black Women to the #Slutwalk

Pretty killer letter outlining how race and power influences the way Slut Walks engage with black and diverse communities. Read it.

As Black women, we do not have the privilege or the space to call ourselves “slut” without validating the already historically entrenched ideology and recurring messages about what and who the Black woman is.  We don’t have the privilege to play on destructive representations burned in our collective minds, on our bodies and souls for generations.