sandyosullivan.bsky.social
Aboriginal trans/non-binary/queer/ND doing anti-colonial work on museums/art/gender/culture @IndigFutures. ARC Future Fellow.
I mostly make jokes about museums. I'm 59!
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Gina's commitment to the family often meant that - while being a full-time mum, grandma n social worker - she also accompanied Mum on trips in her free time. In 2017 she took her back to Ireland for her 80th birthday. Mum had Alzheimers and had a fall there, it was a hard but important trip.
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*an Aboriginal woman
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Sorry, I messed up and forgot to put in the ID information. The two photos above are close-ups of in one instance someone dressed up, and that same person and Aboriginal woman in her 50s with long black hair facing the camera and smiling.
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As Peigi reminded me, whether you are cis, trans+ male or female. If you feel something weird, get it checked out now. It’ll just be preying on your mind. Your GP will sort you out!
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He’s so transparent. Attempting to run for presidency that he doesn’t have a hope in securing, all on the back of transphobia as a cheap and nasty scapegoating.
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You know why you’re not? Because you acknowledge it. But also honestly sometimes our mental health gets in the way of our intentions and that’s not something to hold shame over.
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You’re not Jim. Not being able to get out of the house is a real thing. You’re not awful.
Exhibition looks great, it’ll be good to see reviews off of it.
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CORRECTION: This doesn’t ban gender affirming care for ACA plans, however it does make it so those plans do not have to cover gender affirming care.
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Yeah, he just made a pretty solid announcement that he didn’t think queer people had the same rights as others. The post was entirely ironic.
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Maybe they can unify on hating trans people
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You can go back and read it. She made public statements about it. Very clear public statements.
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It’s always great to be trounced by anonymous cowards
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Well, that’s completely conclusive, isn’t it?
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Yes, she did
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Oh look, I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to alarm you. It sounds like it’s based on two things and one of them is just Australian specific about how it’s advance purchased product. While the other is about supply it’s really hard to know where any of this is at the moment.
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It always ends well when cops run things.
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It seems to be that manufacturing can’t keep up with demand since they discontinued the climara patch. I think it might push a lot more people onto the implants.
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Ugh they’re on here but their whole engagement is ‘influencer’ which doesn’t really work on blue sky cause it’s just people having conversations not ‘content’.
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I think the reason that this irks me so much is that the influencer is continuing their whole idea of being an expert across social justice. All the while encouraging racism on their threads.
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Yep. We actually wrote something four years ago about this. research-management.mq.edu.au/ws/portalfil...
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Ah speaking of which it was in a sentence that they DID capitalise Australian (their dictionary told them to).
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The actual 'influencer' is somehow more worrying than the outright racists. Filled with explanations for why Australia can't be racist and that the no vote was an aberration caused by us being confused and confusing. Yeah, nah.
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The 'you can't be a professor because you don't agree with my dictionary capitalisation of small A Aboriginal' is not even a first for me, to be fair.
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I know. Honestly I could have provided a citation (we wrote an entire piece on this) but apparently their dictionary didn't support it, lol. I mean it's almost as though racism is institutionalised and all-encompassing, hey?
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Also Aboriginal people can't be queer. Apparently. Like Marriage Equality is for white folks. The referendum was for us. Or not, as the case may be.
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Sorry that should’ve read marriage equality. No wonder they were questioning how I could possibly be a professor. It’s clearly about my spelling and not about the fact that I called them out on racism.
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Been called out by queer racists who are relieved about the govt staying in is exactly what I imagined my week would be. Funnily enough, it is. Picking the battles you care about and being able to explain why the other ones don’t matter is why reconciliation is a load of crap.
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The weird part about it is how much they hate being called racist and yet insist the Aboriginal should be lower case. Just managed to have one of the people in the stream explain to me that that’s in the dictionary and as a professor I should know this. Let me say this is the kind of racism we get.