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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
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Aboriginal professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.

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Hey, if you’re struggling this Christmas season, me too. I see you.

Sometimes the most important thing is to survive it.
Look, lots of fun things for Christmas catching up online with my sister. Lots of lovely pressies. And a beautiful day outside with birds singing, to be fair mostly squawking, and just a nice relaxing time.
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I love Christmas. But since my mum and brother and sister - who all loved it - have died, I don’t have the desire to celebrate with others. I’m at home writing for the entire season anyway, so it’s lovely to reflect and reproduce some of the rituals we always shared. Oh, and food!
December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Remembering the time Sam Kerr once again proved she doesn't miss chaser.com.au/sport/sam-ke...
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Hey, if you’re struggling this Christmas season, me too. I see you.

Sometimes the most important thing is to survive it.
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Check in on your trans and gender diverse kin. There’s a lot of positive stories going around at the moment and they’re really powerful, but they can also do a number on you if your mental health is not great. Check in.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I’ve met so many amazing people on here (and the *other place*) who challenge the colonial project of gender, some in big ways, some just through your actions. I just want to say that I really appreciate you.

You are changing this world for the better.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is the next project. Please get in touch, or save this until next year.
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Today is the last day of the Future Fellowship that I’ve been doing for the last five years. If any of the work we’ve done in thinking about queer in Indigenous lives, creativity, the colonial project of gender and everything else has had an impact on your work or life I’d love to hear from you.
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Join us for our latest Queer as…a podcast with brilliant writer and poet, and talking about their latest for an into writing the brilliant play, swim - it’s EvN!

queer-as.org/a-podcast/evn/
EvN
EvN © Anna Jacobson EvN (Ellen van Neerven) Ellen van Neerven (they/them) is an award-winning author, editor and educator of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. EvN‘s first book, Heat and Light …
queer-as.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Really appreciate this. We’ve loved doing it. Three queer Indigenous people up so far…9 more to go in the first series.
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Just gonna say this: our families don't all hate or revile us as queer Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people aren't trying to find a way to alienate our families and friends. This white queer rendering of queer Aboriginal people as cast out by mob is ridiculous and a colonial fantasy. And racist.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I got a haircut. It feels so good. Now this is how trans people should be spending #TransgenderAwarenessWeek… having affirming care!

ID: me in a selfie in my car with a fresh haircut.
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
During #TransAwarenessWeek2025 we are featuring the wonderful Campbell X on the podcast. Campbell is an amazing trans filmmaker whose recent work focus on anticolonial reckonings, #LandBack and trans bodies. The podcast is also conducted by 2 trans folks, Han and me.

queer-as.org/a-podcast/ca...
Campbell X
Campbell X Campbell X’s work deals with queer memory, desire and Blackness across the African diaspora through filmmaking, theatre and curation. He directed the award-winning queer urban roma…
queer-as.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Join us on Queer as… a podcast as we speak with Campbell X whose work deals with queer memory, desire and Blackness across the African diaspora through filmmaking, theatre and curation. He talks with us about #LandBack, trans bodies and the promise of ancestors.

queer-as.org/a-podcast/ca...
Campbell X
Campbell X Campbell X’s work deals with queer memory, desire and Blackness across the African diaspora through filmmaking, theatre and curation. He directed the award-winning queer urban roma…
queer-as.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
At the heart of this work is the wealth of care, thought, innovation and support that exists in the practice of queer Indigenous creatives. Look it’s great that we have lists, but these are real people making incredible contributions, and I’m so grateful for that.
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Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info

queer-as.org
Queer As...
Exploring Queer Indigenous Creativity
queer-as.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
We made this for us to celebrate queer Indigenous scholarship lies, but it also counters the many non-Indigenous queer and gender studies scholars that tell us that they can’t find the work of any IndigiQueers. Here's a few hundred citations.

queer-as.org/blaqademics/
BlaQademics
A randomly ordered list of Indigiqueer scholars and thinkers that explore queerness, Indigineity, and creative artmaking Across our program we have learned from the powerful work of Indigenous scho…
queer-as.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🧵
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info

queer-as.org
Queer As...
Exploring Queer Indigenous Creativity
queer-as.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Seen this morning, great advice. Unless you have food or help on offer just leave them alone.
They are doing the best they can.
October 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Where am I safe?': U.K. court ruling leaves trans people's lives in turmoil
The U.K. Supreme Court ruled in April that "sex" refers to biological sex, and transgender people say the judgment has made them feel less safe.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
'Where am I safe?': U.K. court ruling leaves trans people's lives in turmoil
The U.K. Supreme Court ruled in April that "sex" refers to biological sex, and transgender people say the judgment has made them feel less safe.
www.nbcnews.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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The Sep/Oct issue of Architecture Australia includes an article by Georgia Birks reviewing Balam Balam Place by Kennedy Nolan Architects, Openwork and Finding Infinity: aus.archi/jysv

#AustralianArchitecture
September 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Trans women are women. Pass it on.
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This message from Palestinian journalist, Wael Al-Dahdouh, must echo across the world.

Wael continued to report from occupied Gaza after his wife and children were killed by Israeli forces.
September 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
From the transgenderUK community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community
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August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Surely the point of a large institution is that some people working there understand finances and others understand other things, like physics and literature and how to maintain 10000 computers and how to stop students getting suicidally depressed. The problem is *not* that everyone can't do it all.
August 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM