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5 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Ok I guess I shld introduce myself proppa...my name is Chelsea Watego used to be Bond. Im Munanjahli & South Sea. My day job is as a mother to 5 really cool people.
I work as an Associate Professor at UQ having recently returned to the ATSIS unit. I’m a board member of @InalaWangarra and used to be 1/2 of @wildblackwomen
This week I will talk about a few things, from the work I do as an academic, as a community member, and as a Black woman and the beautiful Black ppl I get to do work with.
The stuff I want to talk about is survival - not as a gasping for breath tho *combat breathing* (Fanon) is real - but survival as living fully even knowing every day is #AnotherDayInTheColony

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7 Mar
Ok so last week #BlackfullaTwitter was yarning about the erasure of Aboriginal women *coughs* @QandA and....(yes it’s a thread)
I shared part of a speech by Audre Lorde that she delivered to a conference in Melbourne in 1985 where she rouses them for ignoring Aboriginal women - it’s in A Burst of Light and what annoyed me was...
It got a lot of attention and RTs which reminded me again how we are only visible as Indigenous women when others deem us worthy. BTW Aunty was clearly ahead of her time cause we have had race scholars here since who don’t think they can learn from us here.
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5 Mar
In more of things #AuntyAudreAlsoSaid ‘I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my nose holes - everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe, I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!’
This is in the essay from which people quote ‘self care is an act of political warfare’ and it made me wonder why hasn’t this part been popularised to the same extent?
‘For Black women, learning to consciously extend ourselves to each other and to call upon each other’s strengths is a life-saving strategy’
#OtherThingsAuntyAudreSaid
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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
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?
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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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