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Jen Michels
@noturaboriginal.bsky.social
Munggurra & Garawa woman living in the beautiful unceded lands of Kaurna Country. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe
The face that adamantly says admires don’t touch… Message received, miss squishy face 🥰🤣

She attracted too much love from a recent young human & has decided she no longer enjoys being touched. Fair enough too, dare say I’d have the same reaction.
November 23, 2023 at 4:02 AM
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I just posted something on the other place that reminds ppl that some of us can't actually protest in person, & to make anyone feel badly for not being present in physical protest is an abelist behaviour. Learn that.
October 25, 2023 at 5:16 AM
This colony of settlers needs to have a read!

My ‘Indigenous Leaders’ are not people you’ve heard of. They are not m politicians or anyone else you know the names of. The people you do know the names of do not speak for me or mine; they don’t belong to my clans!!

#AuthorityNotGranted
Debunking: Indigenous Leaders – IndigenousX
indigenousx.com.au
October 23, 2023 at 12:36 PM
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Reskeet if you've ever:
- self-harmed
- attempted suicide
- been to a therapist
- cancelled on things because you don't have the energy to live
- lied about being okay
- had a panic attack in a public bathroom

the world needs to know how common these things are.
October 18, 2023 at 1:36 AM
For all the settler colonial Australians needing another unfriendly reminder:
We are not your fucking possessions! Stop labelling Aboriginal &/or Torres Strait Islander People with the word ‘our’.

We were never yours & we never will be! Your place is not above us, it is beside us!
October 14, 2023 at 5:43 PM
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A reminder. Some genuine voice of Strong Blak Resistance to Extractivism to listen to today on the real fight when this violent coloniser's Referendum finishes. Foe.org.au/cr146
October 14, 2023 at 3:28 AM
Before you vote this week, please remember what the PM told the Parliament of PNG in Jan this year “Independence was not Australia’s gift to give but your right to assert”

Why is our only option to allow Australians to give us a voice in your system, over upholding our own?
October 8, 2023 at 8:20 AM
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‘Aboriginal ppl were colonised because they didn’t have farms, fences, or a written language’ is some peak deficit discourse victim blaming nonsense... We got invaded because the same invaders who had been busily invading everywhere for a few hundred years finally came here and did what invaders do.
October 5, 2023 at 10:50 PM
For crying out loud! Now we can’t even open YouTube without being exposed to referendum garble! This has become nothing but insidiously invasive on our lives!
October 2, 2023 at 5:43 AM
Has babysitting ever been this cute!? 🥰 I kinda want their forever home to be mine… but it’s not a clever choice to have more than one male in a breeding program.
So, can everyone pls remind me that I can’t be greedy & keep them! 😂
October 1, 2023 at 3:03 AM
When does the colony take into account the Oldest Living Cultures in the World have their own systems of governance?

Our Clans have never ceded our sovereign rights to our own laws. What right do Australians have to vote about our unceded sovereignty!?

Would you be happy if other’s did it to you!?
September 27, 2023 at 5:08 PM
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nit.com.au/22-09-2023/7... Walbunja Elder Uncle Wally Stewart -
"We have been battling with fisheries for the last forty years. They have nearly destroyed our way of life, by ignoring our law and discriminating against our rights," he said.
South Coast fishing class action: "It's not a crime, it's our culture."
Fifty Native Title holders from coastal regions including La Perouse, New South Wales South Coast and Eden met at Bingie, New South Wales, t...
nit.com.au
September 26, 2023 at 1:02 AM
Happened a month ago & they haven’t even visited the site yet??

If it was their headquarters damaged, would they take over a month to check it out? We all know that answer!

Destroying our cultures is genocide! Remember that Australia!!
September 23, 2023 at 11:04 AM
I know we are not meant to have favourites… but this is the real world 😅😅

She’s ever so affectionate & is always seeking loving hands. She’s also a little chatter box just like me. How can I not adore that face? Belonging to this fluff ball makes me melt 🥰
September 21, 2023 at 11:11 PM
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The church hall had a bunch of boxes made up ready to tart for Operation Christmas Child this year. Ew.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This Christmas, beware evangelical Christians bearing gifts | Polly Toynbee
The Samaritan’s Purse charity sends gift boxes to children in Muslim countries. They contain a hidden agenda, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Would be great if Australians could remember the Abbott Govt handpicked 250 people from many more nations to attend the meeting.

We did not decide who spoke for us. Some of us were ‘lucky enough’ to have clan members there. Most of us were not & that means we were silenced in our exclusion!
September 20, 2023 at 1:05 AM