Wonder Wings

learning & sharing on queer, anti-racist, anti-sexist, gender queering, body positive, femme-focused, mental health-y and/or glittery wonderings.

i am. white. queer. cis-gendered. femme-y. pronoun "she". writing/living on stolen wurundjeri land. so-called melbourne, australia. learning. loving.

there's our catastrophe: BEING SOBER ON SURVIVAL/INVASION DAY IN AUSTRALIA

siriuslydeep:

I don’t really drink alcohol. For heaps of reasons. But I definately won’t be drinking on Invasion/Survival Day this year. I guess I hope to be one less Anglo/white persyn putting money into/supporting this booze-fueled day of false nationalism. Getting drunk can make…

Does anyone know the credit for the image?

I think there are really great points made in these two posts. Sometimes I think the use of patriotic gross whiteness can be so much the focus that we forget to think about the ways we engage with our own whiteness.

Perhaps another way to acknowledge Invasion Day is to step aside a little bit and allow the people who most need space to celebrate Survival Day in whatever way they wish to.

Side note: I imagine POC the MIC is going to be a packed space tonight and hopefully white queers who are going will show “solidarity” by giving up the space we’re so use to taking up.

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