A picture from the front of my house, showing the Aboriginal flag waving in the wind, it's a flag split vertically with red on bottom and black on the top, and has a large yellow circle in the middle. The red signifies the red earth of Country, the black signifies the Aboriginal people, caring for Country, and the yellow signifies the sun shining over us

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1. farmer aby (aby@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 18:18:05 JST farmer aby

   Expanding on my #bio and #introduction, today's episode:

   I am a #Kamileroi person, living on #Wiradjuri Country.

   I'm #Indigenous, my paternal grandmother and her mother were part of the Stolen Generations. We've tried tracing our family history back further on that side, and can't find anything earlier so we don't know where my great-nanna was taken from.

   I have white skin, and with along with that comes a lot of privilege and social capital. This doesn't negate my Indigeneity, but in a country that is founded on white supremacy and imperialism the safety that my skin colour affords me is undeniable.

   Growing up I saw how much trouble my cousins and friends got in to solely on the grounds of assumptions made because of how they looked, and I experienced how little trouble I got in to in spite of my behaviours.

   It hurts me when my Indigeneity is questioned, but that doesn't mean my white skinned-ness causes oppression - it's anti-Indigeneity that causes it, and Black Indigenous people get hit a lot harder than I do. White and white skinned people benefit from white supremacy.. even those of us who are Indigenous. It's our duty to unpack that and abolish whiteness.

   Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land - sovereignty never ceded.

   (if you want to read more about the abolition of whiteness and ending white supremacy, a good quick outline is Dr Barnor Hesse's work "The 8 White Identities")