"Our labour and our language has been co-opted into feigning an anti-racist, anti-colonialist, anti-ableist and ‘intersectional’ appearance for a racist, colonialist and ableist union, and its factions. We can no longer allow this to be so.
We will no longer be brought into sessions to provide our Cultural and lived knowledge to benefit an organisation which uses us to perform interpersonal anti-racism as a cheap political trick. We will no longer provide settler-framed images of pity to then be negotiated out of resources and power to implement change, especially now that we can never be reimbursed for the pleasure of that exploitation."
This is really exciting.
First Nations folk in Australia, if you want to get involved with these efforts to establish an autonomous national collective of Indigenous students check out Blacademy's facebook page.
