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14 Jan, 11 tweets, 2 min read
I’d like to start out by taking a look at my recently started podcast Fear of a Blak Planet and picking it a part a bit. Talking about why this work? Why now?
The show is a narrative fiction podcast similar to a radio play. This particular narrative is told through a series of interview with myself as the interviewer. The interviewees are all members of the ‘fictional’ paramilitary Aboriginal group: Warriors of New Dreaming
Warriors of New Dreaming or WoND as I have been referring to them as are getting ready to Decolonise so-called-Australia, by force if necessary. What does this mean?
Lots of different things to different people. Each episode focuses on an interview with a different member of the group beginning with the PR Manager Janie Carter (played by Brooke Scobie) and each interview is completely improvised.
What we’re trying to do with the show is create a narrative journey into the world where the future could very well First Nations and giving a platform for mob to speculate on what they want from that future.
For Janie Carter it’s our land back. How much land? All of it.
For the Warrior Librarian Drew Carter played by @SaywhatNathan it’s getting back our stolen artefacts from faraway lands.
We’re recording new episodes now and each episode will advance the storyline for Warriors of New Dreaming in their question de take the land that is rightfully theirs.
You can listen to the show on Spotify, iTunes and other podcast apps or through the Awesome Black website. The link is in the next tweet.
awesomeblack.org/podcast/1-warr…
If you’re mob and you’d be keen to be on the show reach out to me and we can schedule you in. I would love to chat.
Anyways... have a listen to the show. It’s funny whilst also being poignant and a powerful look at sovereignty for mob in this country.

Hit me up with questions about the show this week while I’m hosting.

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14 Jan
Morning! I’m going to talk about the second wave of Cheese-week for a moment. Earlier this week formerly racially charged Cheese brand changed their brand name to Cheer.
That’s great, it’s done. It should have been done months ago if not years ago.
With the announcement of the new branding has come a rise in anti Cheer sentiment on social media.
Side note: I would have loved to have been part of the marketing meeting and the focus groups when they tested Cheer Cheese. It would have been absolute funniest thing.
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14 Jan
Good evening. It feels like a bit of a strange time to be taking over the driving seat for this account (I hope I don’t crash). There’s a lot of noise in the world at the moment. Cheese Historians, Double Peaches. The next two weeks are huge as well leading up to Invasion Day.
I’ll be here till Thursday next week.
Let me introduce myself.
Gamilaroi/ Dharug.
I host the podcasts: @Broriginals1 and Fear of a Blak Planet for @AwesomeBlackOrg
I’m an illustrator/ artist, an Indigneous Futurisms writer, & a producer
I usually tweet from @TravisHDeVries
I’m incredibly passionate about storytelling and ensuring that Blackfullas control our narrative, telling the stories we want to tell in the ways we want to tell them. We can be anything we want to be.
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3 Jan
One of the most powerful things allies can do is use their vote, not for their own (perceived) economic benefit (LNP are actually terrible economically despite rhetoric to contrary), but for the human rights of others. So I will remind you of the records of the people elected.
The Prime Minister has woeful personal ethics, taking pride in denying asylum to those seeking it instead locking them up and committing human rights atrocities. He also showed three days ago he believes in maintaining paternalism and deciding for us - one word and he’s done.
The current deputy leader of the Coalition has a very telling history.
*trigger warning* homophobia
He has since apologised of course.
He also spoke highly of Nigel Scullion’s work in Indigenous Affairs.
Nothing like the perpetual back pats of mediocrity.
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2 Jan
I realise we didn’t get one day into 2021 without a stupid political decision demonstrating exactly why the struggle continues for us but here we are readying ourselves for another year of the struggle.
We look ahead and know the power paradigms still need to be disrupted and shifted; land protected; rights pursued and asserted and sovereignty continued to be asserted in the pursuit of land rights, self-determination and reparations.
We are a vast people of over 200 nations but I am always amazed at the use of resources to collectivise and support one another. Seeing mobs from all over the country join calls for justice, calls for action to protect Gomeroi country and calls against Rio.
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2 Jan
Super racist Tony Abbott was a Rhodes scholar ffs, and Cecil Rhodes was also a super racist... white supremacy is a hell of a drug!
It’s like when ppl say “How is tony abbott racist? He volunteered in blah blah blah!” - he’s racist because he believes in Indigenous inferiority and white superiority. His charity is borne of the white man’s burden.
It’s like how having an Aboriginal friend doesn’t mean that you can’t be racist... being racist isn’t only openly hating all people of all other races all the time. Racism is a belief that permeated every aspect of the western world for centuries.
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2 Jan
‘Not all Indigenous people agree on thing’ is still a legitimate angle for a news story in Australia even though all white people have never agreed on anything.

We aren’t homogenous. We aren’t two dimensional. We don’t share a hive mind.
‘Indigenous leader’ is still an acceptable phrase in media too, even though it’s problematic af for perpetuating a homogeneous view of Indigenous peoples, and because it’s usually white editors who get to decide who is an Indigenous leader and who is an Indigenous activist.
I tried to point this out a couple of years ago when I did a parody article in response to an australian article titled ‘Indigenous leaders back Kerri-Anne Kennerley in racism row’ (The ‘Indigenous leaders’ in question were all Liberal party members’)
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