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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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.
ID: me in a selfie in my car with a fresh haircut.
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 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.
ID: me in a selfie in my car with a fresh haircut.
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.
Quick interruption from my articles update to just post this photo. Next month it will be 24 years since Dad died. There is a complexity around relationships, always. But this represents a third photo in which Dad and I exist. I'd never seen this before. I'm blonde. Lol.
June 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Quick interruption from my articles update to just post this photo. Next month it will be 24 years since Dad died. There is a complexity around relationships, always. But this represents a third photo in which Dad and I exist. I'd never seen this before. I'm blonde. Lol.
Just a final post about this two year anniversary since my sister Gina went into the hereafter and onto her own Dreaming.
Gina made the world a better place by being in it. We’re all better for her having been here.
Gina made the world a better place by being in it. We’re all better for her having been here.
June 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Just a final post about this two year anniversary since my sister Gina went into the hereafter and onto her own Dreaming.
Gina made the world a better place by being in it. We’re all better for her having been here.
Gina made the world a better place by being in it. We’re all better for her having been here.
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.
June 9, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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.
Next Sunday will mark a kind of anniversary... two years since my sister Gina died. Over the next week, I'll post on this thread pics and stories of the wonder that she was and continues to be for our family.
For today here are some photos of her being magnificent.
For today here are some photos of her being magnificent.
June 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Next Sunday will mark a kind of anniversary... two years since my sister Gina died. Over the next week, I'll post on this thread pics and stories of the wonder that she was and continues to be for our family.
For today here are some photos of her being magnificent.
For today here are some photos of her being magnificent.
This is me 38 years ago, imagining that pride is about wearing the colours of the rainbow. It wasn’t true then and it’s not true now.
If queer pride can be individual and self-congratulatory, queer resistance is rooted in community, solidarity and fighting a system set up to oppress.
If queer pride can be individual and self-congratulatory, queer resistance is rooted in community, solidarity and fighting a system set up to oppress.
June 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This is me 38 years ago, imagining that pride is about wearing the colours of the rainbow. It wasn’t true then and it’s not true now.
If queer pride can be individual and self-congratulatory, queer resistance is rooted in community, solidarity and fighting a system set up to oppress.
If queer pride can be individual and self-congratulatory, queer resistance is rooted in community, solidarity and fighting a system set up to oppress.
How do we do it?
May 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
How do we do it?
Thinking about Mum today. As many of us are.  Go gently, folks.
May 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Thinking about Mum today. As many of us are.  Go gently, folks.
Noting for anyone in Australia who use Estradot patches.
May 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Noting for anyone in Australia who use Estradot patches.
Poor Herald Sun got all turned about by a result, and renamed Dutton after the seat he lost. Bit cruel.
May 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Poor Herald Sun got all turned about by a result, and renamed Dutton after the seat he lost. Bit cruel.
First proper cold day today here on Dharug Ngurra. 
April 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
First proper cold day today here on Dharug Ngurra. 
Booing a Welcome to Country at a Anzac Day dawn service is just vile and it also completely forgets that so many of our people served. Here’s the service of one Aboriginal soldier, my Dad.
April 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Booing a Welcome to Country at a Anzac Day dawn service is just vile and it also completely forgets that so many of our people served. Here’s the service of one Aboriginal soldier, my Dad.
I'm doing a keynote at this year's SAGE conference in Sydney. Lots of changes happening at universities right now. I'm pleased to be a part in talking about what that means in relation to equity and the work that leading bodies can do to effect change.
April 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I'm doing a keynote at this year's SAGE conference in Sydney. Lots of changes happening at universities right now. I'm pleased to be a part in talking about what that means in relation to equity and the work that leading bodies can do to effect change.
Trans and queer people who are reposting up the violence we’re getting, need to fuck right off fuck off, you’re a terrible person. If you’re posting a social action, do that. Stop fucking terrorising people.
April 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Trans and queer people who are reposting up the violence we’re getting, need to fuck right off fuck off, you’re a terrible person. If you’re posting a social action, do that. Stop fucking terrorising people.
I've dragged my feet (or the literary version) on writing the book: the colonial project of gender. As I nudge towards potential publication, I'm reflecting on the reason that I've been so uncharacteristically slow.
I think after this comes out, I'll die.
I'll expand on this in a few hours.
I think after this comes out, I'll die.
I'll expand on this in a few hours.
April 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I've dragged my feet (or the literary version) on writing the book: the colonial project of gender. As I nudge towards potential publication, I'm reflecting on the reason that I've been so uncharacteristically slow.
I think after this comes out, I'll die.
I'll expand on this in a few hours.
I think after this comes out, I'll die.
I'll expand on this in a few hours.
#SupportingTransHealthCare
Every day is a gender-affirming (or denying, if ya like) day. Another selfie to say gender-affirming healthcare has saved my life. I’m grateful for the support from the centre I work in, and the negotiated gender-affirming leave and support the uni and union agreed on.
Every day is a gender-affirming (or denying, if ya like) day. Another selfie to say gender-affirming healthcare has saved my life. I’m grateful for the support from the centre I work in, and the negotiated gender-affirming leave and support the uni and union agreed on.
April 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#SupportingTransHealthCare
Every day is a gender-affirming (or denying, if ya like) day. Another selfie to say gender-affirming healthcare has saved my life. I’m grateful for the support from the centre I work in, and the negotiated gender-affirming leave and support the uni and union agreed on.
Every day is a gender-affirming (or denying, if ya like) day. Another selfie to say gender-affirming healthcare has saved my life. I’m grateful for the support from the centre I work in, and the negotiated gender-affirming leave and support the uni and union agreed on.
I work alongside other Aboriginal people who are trans, I work alongside settler folks who are trans. The work we do in our Centre frames belonging and connection. So of course we do. Here are some of them. #TransDayOfVisibility #WeBelong
March 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I work alongside other Aboriginal people who are trans, I work alongside settler folks who are trans. The work we do in our Centre frames belonging and connection. So of course we do. Here are some of them. #TransDayOfVisibility #WeBelong
Trans visibility matters today, because an enormous amount of people are trying to erase us from the world. But it's our connection to others that we need to focus on. We are part of a community, not an outlier. We belong.
#TransDayOfVisibility #WeBelong
Here with Necho Brocchi
#TransDayOfVisibility #WeBelong
Here with Necho Brocchi
March 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Trans visibility matters today, because an enormous amount of people are trying to erase us from the world. But it's our connection to others that we need to focus on. We are part of a community, not an outlier. We belong.
#TransDayOfVisibility #WeBelong
Here with Necho Brocchi
#TransDayOfVisibility #WeBelong
Here with Necho Brocchi
I just turned 59.
Every year I share my birthday - the 31st of March - with #TransDayOfVisibility.
There’s never a more important time for us to be visible and to shout our existence from the rooftops. 
Today I’ll be posting on visibility in difficult times. It’s how we care for one another.

Every year I share my birthday - the 31st of March - with #TransDayOfVisibility.
There’s never a more important time for us to be visible and to shout our existence from the rooftops. 
Today I’ll be posting on visibility in difficult times. It’s how we care for one another.

March 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I just turned 59.
Every year I share my birthday - the 31st of March - with #TransDayOfVisibility.
There’s never a more important time for us to be visible and to shout our existence from the rooftops. 
Today I’ll be posting on visibility in difficult times. It’s how we care for one another.

Every year I share my birthday - the 31st of March - with #TransDayOfVisibility.
There’s never a more important time for us to be visible and to shout our existence from the rooftops. 
Today I’ll be posting on visibility in difficult times. It’s how we care for one another.

Just a few more weeks and I’ll have moved to Sydney. It’s been a bit of a journey to say the least. I mean, I’ve had an office there for over four years so it’ll be good to be going into work each day. It’s been 36 years since I’ve lived there - it’s changed. Now I just have to fall in love with it.
March 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Just a few more weeks and I’ll have moved to Sydney. It’s been a bit of a journey to say the least. I mean, I’ve had an office there for over four years so it’ll be good to be going into work each day. It’s been 36 years since I’ve lived there - it’s changed. Now I just have to fall in love with it.
In Canberra on a writing retreat.
March 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In Canberra on a writing retreat.
Today was unspeakably terrible for queer Mob. And especially for those targeted. But we are still here. Time to stand up, ‘allies’ within the community.
March 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Today was unspeakably terrible for queer Mob. And especially for those targeted. But we are still here. Time to stand up, ‘allies’ within the community.
🧵After saying it was 40 years since my first queer Mardi Gras. I heard an old friend from back then had died. We were really close for years & we have no photos together.
I get some stick from posting selfies. Take photos with people you love, take photos of yourself. I can’t recommend it enough.
I get some stick from posting selfies. Take photos with people you love, take photos of yourself. I can’t recommend it enough.
March 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
🧵After saying it was 40 years since my first queer Mardi Gras. I heard an old friend from back then had died. We were really close for years & we have no photos together.
I get some stick from posting selfies. Take photos with people you love, take photos of yourself. I can’t recommend it enough.
I get some stick from posting selfies. Take photos with people you love, take photos of yourself. I can’t recommend it enough.
40 years since my first Queer Mardi Gras - it was a protest then - the theme was FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES. It was a hard time, now it’s hard for different but surprisingly similar reasons.
It’s still a protest, we’re still fighting.
It’s still a protest, we’re still fighting.
March 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
40 years since my first Queer Mardi Gras - it was a protest then - the theme was FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES. It was a hard time, now it’s hard for different but surprisingly similar reasons.
It’s still a protest, we’re still fighting.
It’s still a protest, we’re still fighting.