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My boyfriend when I was 18 initially just thought I had a "really good tan". He was a tad, well, stupid. Anyway IRL that's the closest anyone has gotten to mistaking me for white in my entire life so it never ceases to amaze me how many random tweeps have views on my appearance
I was sitting on a tram one day listening to my tunes when a woman started waving at me to get my attention. I thought she might need directions so I took my headphones off. Nope, she just wanted to ask me what "nationality" I was.
Then there was the school grounds. I got called "nigger" and heard the ABC joke more than once. I even got told to "go back to your own country" by some fool who then had to deal with my friends pointing and laughing at him.
When people haven't known, I have been mistaken for Maori, Native American, Lebanese, Indian - in short, a bunch of not white people.
But even all that aside, I have always been Arrernte. I have stated so from the time I hit school, it usually takes new people max 10 seconds of engaging with me before it's stated, it's included in all my work, all my articles, my twitter info, my Facebook info, everywhere
My point w all this is that it's amazing to me that randos on socials think they have the right to comment on my appearance, or the appearance of any other Aboriginal person, & tell us we're not enough. I'm ranting bc I've been set off tonight but it happens all the time. FRO DHs
It doesn't matter how dark or fair we are, we're not a fucking spectacle for tweeps to analyse and take apart at their leisure. We don't exist for you. We exist for mob, for community and they're the ones who get to judge where we fit, not rando tweeps.
