Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
@sandyosullivan.bsky.social
Aboriginal professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture @IndigFutures. ARC Future Fellow.
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Queer As...
Exploring Queer Indigenous Creativity
queer-as.org
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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
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
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...
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
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...
queer-as.org/a-podcast/ca...
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.
🧵
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
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
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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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/
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
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/
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/
🧵
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
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
🧵
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
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
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
Seen this morning, great advice. Unless you have food or help on offer just leave them alone.
They are doing the best they can.
They are doing the best they can.
October 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Seen this morning, great advice. Unless you have food or help on offer just leave them alone.
They are doing the best they can.
They are doing the best they can.
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
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...
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
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...
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...
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
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
#AustralianArchitecture
September 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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
#AustralianArchitecture
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
Trans women are women. Pass it on.
Trans women are women. Pass it on.
Trans women are women. Pass it on.
June 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Trans women are women. Pass it on.
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
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.
Wael continued to report from occupied Gaza after his wife and children were killed by Israeli forces.
September 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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.
Wael continued to report from occupied Gaza after his wife and children were killed by Israeli forces.
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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.
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
www.reddit.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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.
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.
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
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
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.
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
August 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
The government has a choice: protect cultural rights and First Peoples’ data sovereignty — or cave to tech giants hungry for free labour and profit.
To the government we say: our culture is not yours to give away.
We must have a say in how it’s used.
To the government we say: our culture is not yours to give away.
We must have a say in how it’s used.
August 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The government has a choice: protect cultural rights and First Peoples’ data sovereignty — or cave to tech giants hungry for free labour and profit.
To the government we say: our culture is not yours to give away.
We must have a say in how it’s used.
To the government we say: our culture is not yours to give away.
We must have a say in how it’s used.
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First Peoples must be respected as rights-holders, not treated as data sources.
Any use of our culture must be based on consent, control and compensation.
Without that, AI becomes just another tool of colonial exploitation.
Any use of our culture must be based on consent, control and compensation.
Without that, AI becomes just another tool of colonial exploitation.
August 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
First Peoples must be respected as rights-holders, not treated as data sources.
Any use of our culture must be based on consent, control and compensation.
Without that, AI becomes just another tool of colonial exploitation.
Any use of our culture must be based on consent, control and compensation.
Without that, AI becomes just another tool of colonial exploitation.
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
The Productivity Commission has suggested changes copyright law to let tech giants freely use creative work to train AI.
This would allow exploitation of First Peoples’ intellectual and cultural property.
Our culture is not “content” for governments to hand to tech companies.
This would allow exploitation of First Peoples’ intellectual and cultural property.
Our culture is not “content” for governments to hand to tech companies.
August 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The Productivity Commission has suggested changes copyright law to let tech giants freely use creative work to train AI.
This would allow exploitation of First Peoples’ intellectual and cultural property.
Our culture is not “content” for governments to hand to tech companies.
This would allow exploitation of First Peoples’ intellectual and cultural property.
Our culture is not “content” for governments to hand to tech companies.
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme focuses on AI.
And right now, the government is considering letting AI companies use copyrighted Australian work — including First Peoples’ stories, art and language — without our consent.
nit.com.au/07-08-2025/1...
And right now, the government is considering letting AI companies use copyrighted Australian work — including First Peoples’ stories, art and language — without our consent.
nit.com.au/07-08-2025/1...
AI must not be allowed to exploit Indigenous culture
The federal government is being asked to make a decision that will shape the future of First Nations stories, art, music and journalism in Australia.Right now, the Productivity Commission is consideri...
nit.com.au
August 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme focuses on AI.
And right now, the government is considering letting AI companies use copyrighted Australian work — including First Peoples’ stories, art and language — without our consent.
nit.com.au/07-08-2025/1...
And right now, the government is considering letting AI companies use copyrighted Australian work — including First Peoples’ stories, art and language — without our consent.
nit.com.au/07-08-2025/1...
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide.
"To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"
"To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"
July 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide.
"To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"
"To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"
That 15% reciprocal looks pretty good for a lot of states within the EU. I guess they can’t crow about it for obvious reasons but I think places like Ireland that have exports at three times the rate of imports w/ the US, they must have some sense of relief.
July 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
That 15% reciprocal looks pretty good for a lot of states within the EU. I guess they can’t crow about it for obvious reasons but I think places like Ireland that have exports at three times the rate of imports w/ the US, they must have some sense of relief.
Next Friday a number of us are gathering in Sydney to remember the life of Dr Wendy Brady who died last month. If you knew Wendy I hope you make it to USyd.
Details are: University of Sydney, Gadigal Centre, John Woolley Building (A20) on August 1st, starting at 11am.
Details are: University of Sydney, Gadigal Centre, John Woolley Building (A20) on August 1st, starting at 11am.
July 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Next Friday a number of us are gathering in Sydney to remember the life of Dr Wendy Brady who died last month. If you knew Wendy I hope you make it to USyd.
Details are: University of Sydney, Gadigal Centre, John Woolley Building (A20) on August 1st, starting at 11am.
Details are: University of Sydney, Gadigal Centre, John Woolley Building (A20) on August 1st, starting at 11am.
For Mob, we really want to hear from you!
Calling Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Adults!
We want to hear your experiences of connection & disconnection.
✨ Are you 18+ and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander?
✨ Have you felt disconnected, isolated, or marginalised from culture?
monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
We want to hear your experiences of connection & disconnection.
✨ Are you 18+ and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander?
✨ Have you felt disconnected, isolated, or marginalised from culture?
monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
July 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
For Mob, we really want to hear from you!
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“Gender critical” by ensuring gender presentation and gender roles are policed. Slow hand clap to all involved
This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.
July 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“Gender critical” by ensuring gender presentation and gender roles are policed. Slow hand clap to all involved
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
Young trans people’s deaths are being IGNORED by @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social while he removes lifesaving healthcare from trans youth, based on ideologically driven transphobia and/or desire for power! 😖
And not just "the individual" as the FOI refers to them, but a son, a loved one. How many others are missing? Tragic, avoidable deaths, that are seemingly being denied, dismissed, literally erased from the data, in order to pursue a gender critical mindset in the heart of our government and the NHS.
July 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Young trans people’s deaths are being IGNORED by @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social while he removes lifesaving healthcare from trans youth, based on ideologically driven transphobia and/or desire for power! 😖
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
Why do we care about some people who go missing in the bush, but ignore others? 🤔 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Why do we care about some people who go missing in the bush, but ignore others?
The miraculous survival of German backpacker Carolina Wilga in the West Australian outback was met with joy and relief across the country. But for families of missing Aboriginal men who are still sear...
www.abc.net.au
July 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Why do we care about some people who go missing in the bush, but ignore others? 🤔 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
Happy Non-binary People’s Daaaaaay!
Stuff:
- there are older people who are non-binary.
- there are Indigenous people who are non-binary (but we’re not your ‘proof of concept’).
- the binary is a key element of the colonial project of gender.
-we’re an integral part of our community.
Stuff:
- there are older people who are non-binary.
- there are Indigenous people who are non-binary (but we’re not your ‘proof of concept’).
- the binary is a key element of the colonial project of gender.
-we’re an integral part of our community.
July 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Happy Non-binary People’s Daaaaaay!
Stuff:
- there are older people who are non-binary.
- there are Indigenous people who are non-binary (but we’re not your ‘proof of concept’).
- the binary is a key element of the colonial project of gender.
-we’re an integral part of our community.
Stuff:
- there are older people who are non-binary.
- there are Indigenous people who are non-binary (but we’re not your ‘proof of concept’).
- the binary is a key element of the colonial project of gender.
-we’re an integral part of our community.
Reposted by Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
Meanwhile, what do families do? Maybe they emigrate (as I suggested a year ago) given Labour's revealed policy is 'cleanse Britain of the stain of transness.' But the families hit hardest, those without money to insulate them, don't have that choice. And for them life is almost literally unliveable.
July 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Meanwhile, what do families do? Maybe they emigrate (as I suggested a year ago) given Labour's revealed policy is 'cleanse Britain of the stain of transness.' But the families hit hardest, those without money to insulate them, don't have that choice. And for them life is almost literally unliveable.