Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them)
@sandyosullivan.bsky.social
Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
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Aboriginal people across the continent have been shouting out the hypocrisy of the media and govt for not talking about the explosive device thrown into a group of Invasion Day protesters in Boorloo/Perth. 1st I heard about it was from Tarneen Onus Browne. Politicians still haven’t brought it up.
January 28, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Aboriginal people across the continent have been shouting out the hypocrisy of the media and govt for not talking about the explosive device thrown into a group of Invasion Day protesters in Boorloo/Perth. 1st I heard about it was from Tarneen Onus Browne. Politicians still haven’t brought it up.
Have thoughts about queer museums, queerness in museums, or just plain being queer in museums? We'd love to hear from you. Early findings are turning out to be amazing, and we hope it helps museums do better. mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @alanaaaab.bsky.social
#Queer #Museums #QueerMuseums
#Queer #Museums #QueerMuseums
January 23, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Have thoughts about queer museums, queerness in museums, or just plain being queer in museums? We'd love to hear from you. Early findings are turning out to be amazing, and we hope it helps museums do better. mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @alanaaaab.bsky.social
#Queer #Museums #QueerMuseums
#Queer #Museums #QueerMuseums
This year I’m turning 60. I’ve made the decision that in the next two or so years – work commitments dependent – I’ll be getting gender-affirming surgery.
Nothing’s a done deal but things will be changing and I guess I just wanted to say I’m really excited about it and really grateful.
Nothing’s a done deal but things will be changing and I guess I just wanted to say I’m really excited about it and really grateful.
January 19, 2026 at 10:45 AM
This year I’m turning 60. I’ve made the decision that in the next two or so years – work commitments dependent – I’ll be getting gender-affirming surgery.
Nothing’s a done deal but things will be changing and I guess I just wanted to say I’m really excited about it and really grateful.
Nothing’s a done deal but things will be changing and I guess I just wanted to say I’m really excited about it and really grateful.
Today would have been my sister Gina‘s 63rd birthday. Gina was an amazing person and I miss her terribly.
January 18, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Today would have been my sister Gina‘s 63rd birthday. Gina was an amazing person and I miss her terribly.
Next Sunday would have been my sister Gina’s 63rd birthday. I found this lovely picture of her from a few decades ago. It’s such an evocative photo; I really miss her.
*I’ve always done weekly lead ups to birthdays of my family. So this continues, hey.
*I’ve always done weekly lead ups to birthdays of my family. So this continues, hey.
January 11, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Next Sunday would have been my sister Gina’s 63rd birthday. I found this lovely picture of her from a few decades ago. It’s such an evocative photo; I really miss her.
*I’ve always done weekly lead ups to birthdays of my family. So this continues, hey.
*I’ve always done weekly lead ups to birthdays of my family. So this continues, hey.
Look, lots of fun things for Christmas catching up online with my sister. Lots of lovely pressies. And a beautiful day outside with birds singing, to be fair mostly squawking, and just a nice relaxing time.
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Look, lots of fun things for Christmas catching up online with my sister. Lots of lovely pressies. And a beautiful day outside with birds singing, to be fair mostly squawking, and just a nice relaxing time.
I love Christmas. But since my mum and brother and sister - who all loved it - have died, I don’t have the desire to celebrate with others. I’m at home writing for the entire season anyway, so it’s lovely to reflect and reproduce some of the rituals we always shared. Oh, and food!
December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I love Christmas. But since my mum and brother and sister - who all loved it - have died, I don’t have the desire to celebrate with others. I’m at home writing for the entire season anyway, so it’s lovely to reflect and reproduce some of the rituals we always shared. Oh, and food!
Hey, if you’re struggling this Christmas season, me too. I see you.
Sometimes the most important thing is to survive it.
Sometimes the most important thing is to survive it.
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Hey, if you’re struggling this Christmas season, me too. I see you.
Sometimes the most important thing is to survive it.
Sometimes the most important thing is to survive it.
This is the next project. Please get in touch, or save this until next year.
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
This is the next project. Please get in touch, or save this until next year.
Today is the last day of the Future Fellowship that I’ve been doing for the last five years. If any of the work we’ve done in thinking about queer in Indigenous lives, creativity, the colonial project of gender and everything else has had an impact on your work or life I’d love to hear from you.
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today is the last day of the Future Fellowship that I’ve been doing for the last five years. If any of the work we’ve done in thinking about queer in Indigenous lives, creativity, the colonial project of gender and everything else has had an impact on your work or life I’d love to hear from you.
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.