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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

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Aboriginal, trans/non-binary, 58, queer, they/them. Dept of Critical Indigenous Studies @IndigFutures . ARC Future Fellow in gender/museums/art/representation

Brisbane and Sydney

https://t.co/XD7xew1r8b

Joined March 2009

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Please read/retweet this #WearItPurple message from inaugural CEO of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corporation, Shaz Davis. Their work calling out exclusions & calling in trans Mob is powerful. Wear it purple, keep it Blak

Wear It Purple, Keep It Blak.

Today is the day that I was meant to speak at an event for Year 12 First Nations graduates—a moment that was supposed to be about celebrating the incredible potential inherent in our young people....

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'Birthing parent' is used on forms for two main reasons: because a child has two mothers and it identifies which gave birth to them, or because they have a parent who is trans (a man or non-binary or agender) who birthed them. Removing it is both transphobic and homophobic.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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If you misgender someone, just apologise and move on. Please don’t stop and explain why, because - and I say this having heard all the reasons - there’s no reason that’s helpful to share to that person.

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If you were ally enough to vote Yes’, then there’s a few things you can do now. 1. Listen to Aboriginal people. 2. Get that this isn’t about you. 3. The hand-wringing surprise that Australia is racist is insulting. We’ve said it for years. Stop denying, and work to change it.

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2 years

Here's some unsolicited advice: If you stay in a hotel near Hillsong, and you carry your guitar into the elevator and you're asked if you're playing at Hillsong, don't say 'fuck no' and laugh.

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2 years

My beautiful brother Dr David Hardy died this morning. I'm going to miss him for the rest of my life. He was an amazing person and I'll talk about that a lot in the next few days. His life's work was fighting for older queer people and the importance of story.

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Hey ABC: TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG. TRANS IS NOT DRAG.

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I've taught for 29 years, have a substantial research track record, managed 50M in funding, gained 10M for own work. Today a Prof with 1/2 my experience, half the years in service, & a 20th of my individual funding explained to me why they're a Prof & I'm not. Thanks, I know why.

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@alisonphipps @22_Gilly Is the coronation song the one that goes ‘you can shove your coronation up your…’ that Celtics supporters were chanting? It’s honestly the only one I’ve heard.

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2 years

Today marks the start of Ace Week #AceWeek - a time to remind that the 'A' in LGBTQIA+ stands for asexual/aromantic (Ace/Aro) - not 'ally'. Also a great time to listen to the voices of those who are asexual, aromantic, demisexual, and/or grey-asexual.

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Visited mum briefly and she made me go out to the car to grab a sign for her to get her picture taken with. Mum has 5 kids, 9 grandkids, and 22 great grandkids who are Aboriginal, and she wants the world for us all. #BlackLivesMatter

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A while ago I met a famous person I’d been following on twitter. I genuinely loved their work. I said I followed them on Twitter & my online tweets were mostly trans & mob focused. ‘I don’t like what they do to kids’ was what came out of their mouth. The end. #TransAwarenessWeek

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I'm a professor & I'm trans, so I'm setting homework for y'all (not all of you) for this #TransAwarenessWeek 1. When you say 'men or women' as though it's everyone, know you're excluding. Not all of us are in that binary. 2. When you write 'men & women', mean both trans & cis.

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4 years

I’ve been reading many ‘allies’ referring to ‘our Indigenous people’ or ‘our traditional owners’. Laying claim to owning us isn’t allyship. Try saying ‘the’ instead. It suggests genuine agency and authority.

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3 years

That ARC application that 2 of us were named on w/out our permission. We just had a meeting to discuss, and I've never had a more distressing hour in my 30 years of being an academic. Don't write Indigenous people into applications without their permission. Listen. Apologise.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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3 years

Mum (Dr Marie-Claire O’Sullivan) died at 1.45 this morning. I was holding her hand, as all of my siblings (one by distance) had been doing round the clock for days. Mum wasn’t in pain, and passed away peacefully. Some photos/reflections to follow. @RhondaR99577516 @Ghardy8Hardy

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2 years

You know what isn't happening? Being driven off Twitter a week before #TransAwarenessWeek . #TransgenderAwarenessWeek is Nov 13-19 this year. Flooding timelines with #TransAffirmingTweets is absolutely a thing, so let's do that. #IndigiQueer #IndigiTrans

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3 years

It's the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia ( IDAHOBIT): a great day to challenge colonial constructs of gender and sexuality. Well, okay, that's every day. 1. Binary genders are a colonial construct. #AntiColonialQueerness

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2 years

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day 2022. What a great time to celebrate and to remind people that we exist and we always have. #NonBinaryPeoplesDay

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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2 months

If you live alone and you're getting day surgery, do you just lie when you say someone will stay overnight with you?

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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2 years

Do you know how internal promotion works at universities here? You apply for promotion on the basis that you have been working at one level above your pay for a sustained period. Can confirm the built-in extra unpaid work and inequities of this are rarely discussed.

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3 years

I am done begging for a seat at the table as an Aboriginal person or as a trans/non-binary person. Pull out the fucking chair.

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2 years

Big appreciation to @SenatorThorpe for challenging the cop float at Mardi Gras. Some of us remember when this was an actual protest for rights we still don’t have, and against those who do us harm.

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@PhilosophyTube The ridiculous thing is they are legally obliged to (and do) take changes of birth certificates from, for instance, my country. So you could theoretically have tourists/visitors to your country have greater rights than you do.

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2 years

@TrudePerkins @guardian Surprise surprise, controlling other people’s language is kind of the colonial project… Again, stemming from good old Blighty.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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1 year

I live alone in a 1-bedroom apartment out of the city, near the beach. It's quiet, comfy, opposite woolies and coffee shops nearby, and feels plenty big enough for me. A few days ago I got a bit of space/size-shaming about how small my place is (yes, in 2023). I don't get it.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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1 year

My magnificent sister, Gina, died earlier this evening. An amazing woman, parent, grandparent, sister, friend, social worker and community leader. All the things. This was us 10 years ago. More photos and stuff to follow.

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3 years

If you're taking on TERFs, you could learn a lot from us. Aboriginal people have been challenging the ridiculous policing of our bodies for centuries. It's no surprise that the UK is ground zero for this kind of nonsense. It's the colonial project at work.

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2 years

Just got told to not say queer on my Ally Training. Lol, okay. Apparently I can say queer studies, but not queer.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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7 months

🧵 Let me tell you what actual doxxing looks like. It’s not me having my phone number released, because as an academic and artist my phone number is available to anyone. It’s receiving a box of actual shit to my home because my personal address was released on the Internet.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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2 years

I learnt the single most important work thing when I worked in a laundromat when I was 15: my capacity and happiness in doing my job is always based on the people around me and the people I'm doing it for. There was this person who used to come in, their Mum - I realise now -...

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2 years

Be kind to trans people in your life. There's a weird storm coming later in the week. I don't want to fan the flames of it, but it will be intentionally divisive. Just... be kind, don't look for 'answers', listen to people's lived experiences. Support, not decide.

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2 years

Women - cis or trans - are women. Men - cis or trans - are men. Non-binary or agender people are people. People use an array of terms to describe their gender, and it harms no one. #TransAwarenessWeek #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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3 years

Small thread on misgendering: I've made the decision to no longer engage with people who misgender me, when they clearly know my gender and my pronouns.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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2 years

The jokes that non-Indigenous people are making about the Queen would cause many of the rest of us to lose our job. That's a little thing called privilege.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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2 years

I'm tired of videos where settlers start talking to each other by acknowledging Indigenous stolen lands. It's so 'worthy'. Like...'we stole this land, what land did you steal? Cool cool, let's acknowledge it, now let's move on to why we're here now we got that out of the way'

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2 years

Hey queer folk: what do you wish you knew (or could know) when you were younger? For me, I wish I knew that one day I would both survive and thrive outside of the gender binary.

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2 years

I'm probably being clumsy in how I framed it (because I am absolutely fucking wild about this), but basically it's use is completely practical, and removing it is not.

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1 year

This just happened: Queensland Parliament has passed laws allowing trans and gender-diverse folks to change gender markers without the need for surgery. NSW and WA, come on... join us.

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Equality Australia 🌈

1 year

BREAKING: The Queensland parliament has just passed new laws that remove cruel barriers to updating birth certificates! This a momentous day for trans and gender diverse people in the Sunshine State and follows many years of advocacy. We share your joy and celebrate your win 🏳️‍⚧️

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3 years

#TransAwarenessWeek runs from the 13th - 19th of Nov. The colonial project of gender tells us to exist in the gender assigned to us at birth, regardless of how wrong this is, or the incompleteness that we feel. In a week focused on awareness, let's counter myths with truths. 1/

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2 years

It's my absolute bugbear, but it would be great if people stopped misusing the term 'intersectionality'. Read Crenshaw, and all of the work she's had to do to challenge the ridiculous co-option. It refers to compounding disadvantage.

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3 years

Hey, today (14 July) is International Non-Binary Awareness Day! Let's all be aware of fabulous non-binary people! Here's me looking all non-binary yesterday. Do you have a photo, story or a bit of appreciation to share? Some non-binary mythbusting below!

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2 years

Happy 56th birthday, Sandy! You’re awake at 4am cos you have to finish writing a chapter, have a meeting, do a presentation, make someone buy you coffee for your birthday and then drive to Canberra to see your brother in hospital.

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2 years

As someone who's never been nominated or won anything across my 31 years academic career (apart from funding), being told I was nominated for 'worst professor' by a certain right wing think tank feels like somewhat of an achievement.

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4 years

I don't know what to make of this. I find it surprising that in 2020, Melbourne University would appoint a non-Indigenous person as the inaugural Director of their Indigenous Knowledge Institute, and I'm not reading any concern. Is this just a thing now?

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3 years

"A guide to writing and speaking about Indigenous People in Australia". A guide we ( @IndigFutures & @IndigStudiesMQ ) developed for students and other folks who want to understand our perspectives on terminology.

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4 years

I am currently buying Christmas presents for 9 months time from small suppliers that might need a boost #ChristmasPresents2020 - because, why not! I always run out of time anyway, so may as well buy now and store them! Know any online stores that I should be looking at?

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4 years

The sequence: 1. I was in my hotel room in Sydney enjoying my pita bread when I felt multiple sets of eyes on me. 2. Then others were also enjoying my pita bread. 3. Now I’ve closed the curtains and I’m pretending I’ve gone out.

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3 years

If someone you work with is misgendered when they aren't present, correct the person doing the misgendering. #GenderStuffPride2021

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2 years

To be fair, I was really tired from a day of driving, I really didn't think it through. To be fair, who takes one look at me and wonders if I'm playing Hillsong.

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5 months

🧵Every year I share my birthday w/the International Trans Day of Visibility #TDoV2024 . I usually tweet about amazing trans people, and our work at @IndigFutures on challenging the colonial project of gender. This year - as my last real thread - I'll be talking about me.

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2 years

I love @IndigenousX . I've been committed to it since inception, and I was excited to take it over last week. I'd planned to talk about the colonial project of gender and to hear perspectives on it. Then the queen died.

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2 years

If you're a trans-inclusive person, I'd really ask you to retweet this (and you know that apart from research and surveys and follows for others I never ask for retweets). For trans people who are here (on Twitter), safe places are often formed from hearing affirmations.

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4 years

So... this baby is trans. It will take them over 50 years to tell others, but that's who they are. To be clear: I was never a girl. My world couldn't comprehend this, but where would I be if it had? What will it take to support kids as they grow into themselves? #AlwaysTrans

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2 years

As a rule I don’t block or mute other Indigenous people, but I will be blocking anyone using this platform to promote the dangerous neoliberal idea that there are ‘poverty influencers’. The system that creates wealth inequity is the problem, not people subject to the system.

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Hey, for Pride... here is a statement on trans Aboriginal people that isn't filled with junk and fantasy. Aboriginal people who are trans describe themselves however they want to. The end.

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The end of engagement, the end of loving their work, the end of assuming because someone seems kind that they aren’t judgemental. It was the end. The media could help to make our lives better, to help us spread the word. @abcnews and @SBSNews could do that. #TransAwarenessWeek

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It's Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31)! -Whether we choose to be visible is up to us. -Challenge your preconceived notions of what it is to be trans, whether it's assumptions about binaries, age, or how we present. -Support change that makes trans lives better. #TDOV2021

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Just a reminder that if someone misgenders me when I’m not present, correct them. Don’t just let it slide because I’m not there.

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2 years

If you’re going to ‘threaten’ to post full body shots of someone with gender dysphoria about the body part they’re dysphoric about, you’re a shit human being. Here it is in all its glory as I leave Covid fucking isolation. All, feel free to retweet, I’m not ashamed of my body!

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3 years

Somebody just referred to me as 'very young to be a professor'. 1. I'm not; I'm 55. 2. When people say this about Indigenous folks, they mean something else entirely. 3. They also mean that they think I should wear 'business casual'. 4. In no way is this a compliment.

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Hey researchers: not everyone is either a man or a woman.

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If you lead a queer focused org, learn the difference between trans and drag, and not from a streaming service.

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Just a reminder that you can live an entire lifetime without passing judgement on other people's bodies.

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Hey Australians, you could be in mourning, you know. You could actually choose that.

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@sandyosullivan

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Singing the alphabet to check the citation order of an article is a totally grownup thing to do.

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2 years

It genuinely scares me that we could have a minister in charge of this brief who doesn't know a fundamental thing about a health-focused form.

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1 year

Alrighty, believe it or not there are 'complex yes' voters too. In the end it's only two choices, yes or no. And both of these choices will mean more work after the voting. I'm voting yes, because I'd rather give it a go and then agitate and work on it AND hold it to account.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

It's taken me a week to start the tweets David and I prepared before he died. It's apt it's during Pride Month. David was committed to the queer community and, as a gay Wiradjuri man, he knew the importance of talking about the long game of who we are and the complexity of us.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

My beautiful brother Dr David Hardy died this morning. I'm going to miss him for the rest of my life. He was an amazing person and I'll talk about that a lot in the next few days. His life's work was fighting for older queer people and the importance of story.

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2 years

Perfect response, in particular to the person (no clue who they are) who was making out that JKR shouldn't be accountable. Love the word accountable, love the redirection back from celebrity to trans people/parents of trans kids/doctors/professionals.

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One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen. Sensible, honest, smart. I’m posting the video directly as Times Radio tweeted it with a clickbait and somewhat misleading headline that unintentionally confirmed his point. More of this please.

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So... THIS Is happening. Yep, I get to work with amazing people at Macquarie.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

1 year

I have to ask people to please stop messaging me about what I think about the yes/no campaign. 1. I’m actually in Sorry Business at the moment and if you gave a shit about any Aboriginal people you’d stop bothering me. That’s it. That’s the list.

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@sandyosullivan

3 years

So... it's 30 years to the day since I got my first university teaching contract. I was going to post up pics from back then, but I want to start by posting a picture from today. Happy to be where I am, doing the work I get to do, and with the people I get to work with.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

I’m gonna say it again: trans people have a right to highlight transphobic commentary. Being told by cis people not to put it out into the world is a privileged position. Watch the transphobia on #AfternoonBriefing & Fran Kelly’s lack of care if you can stomach it. Witness.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

I know it sounds terrible, but I hoped they’d learn. I said something, as you’d imagine, but they didn’t understand. They were committed to their misinformation. Persuading people that #TransRightsAreHumanRights is harder than it should be. Media could help. @abcnews @SBSNews

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

3 years

My gift to myself for my 55th birthday tomorrow (that thoughtfully coincides each year with the International Day of Trans Visibility) is some lovely meetings. And to not look at my Twitter inbox, in case the annual, inevitable transphobia rears it’s frustration-inducing head.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

Two good reasons to use 'affirmation' over 'transition'. 1. Transition (and most of the language around it in policy and docs) suggests that gender is binary. 2. It's harder to argue against the term 'affirmation'. And de-affirmation is, um, affirmation.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

1 year

March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility - let's celebrate Indigenous trans peoples lives. It's also my 57th birthday, sharing the link below could be a present?! I've written a thread that's a plea to cis Indigenous writers and content creators to include us. #TGoV23

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@sandyosullivan

1 year

🧵Transgender Day of Visibility celebrates trans visibility and how it contributes to our survival. Seeing ourselves on TV, reading ourselves into stories we love is just a fantasy for a lot of trans Indigenous people. Indigenous writers & creators could change that. #TDoV2023

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3 years

Do people really make their bed?

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@sandyosullivan

7 months

I’ve been really shocked by that WhatsApp anti-Palestinian revelation. At least one name on that group is someone that I had a great deal of respect for.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

3 years

@abcnews This whole 'our' Indigenous People thing is getting old. You don't own us. Anyone who has thought about what a claim of possession means, would realise how offensive and weird it is. @CaseyBriggs - just today, case in point. It still works if you don't say 'our'.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

He was cared for at @wesleyhospital in their palliative care unit, though I realise that his illness progressed so quickly it must be a shock to many who knew him that he was even sick. They were amazing, letting us co-sleep and he died in my arms, peacefully.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

Personal pronouns are easy to use correctly. If they tell you they use she/her, use she/her If they tell you they use they/them, use they/them If they tell you they use he/him, use he/him Use the pronouns people provide, today and everyday #InternationalPronounsDay

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

3 years

I don't know who needs to hear this (actually I do, my union, @NTEUNational , apparently): 'gender critical' is code for transphobia. One of you should read a book some time. You are the worst of what any union could be. You strategically fail to protect people from abuse.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

6 months

If you really want to understand Intersectionality, read Crenshaw, the Black legal scholar who coined the term. She uses it to describe compounding disadvantage and illustrates by showing how cops & the justice system exponentially destroy the lives of black women. So, not this.

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@peabodywashere @sydneymardigras @nswpolice They should not be expected to deny their professional identity. That is like slipping back into that closet. #intersectionality

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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2 years

🧵After I came out about my gender I had some friends respond with variations of ‘I see you the way I’ve always seen you’, or ‘you’re just Sandy to me’. I want to explain here why this was a problem for me, and why it *may* be an unhelpful response to others who are trans.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

11 days

Why is the government so afraid of gathering statistics on gender in Australia? I mean apart from their rabid transphobia.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

3 years

ABC... um... ANU strategically avoids using a possessive in their name for a reason!

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

This is my pinned tweet: I am pleading with you all to not let the state misgender me at the end of my life or in death.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

People who 'out' others in relation to their sexuality or gender are wrong to do it. They always are, no matter who's being outed. I often get cis people gleefully (and without care) disclosing someone is trans, in spite of me not needing to know at all. Same for other queers.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

3 years

Hey, people who are sharing screenshots of racist tweets thinking they’re calling them out. I have a news flash for you: you’re sharing racist tweets.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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2 years

If your response to someone disclosing they are non-binary is to ridicule them by saying that everyone feels that way, you might want to have a think about your own relationship to the gender binary.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

As the most recent host, I can attest this was not only unsafe (death threats and incessant racist and transphobic stuff) but there was only a few valiant people shouting it down. Pause is right, and hopefully we'll be back.

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IndigenousX

2 years

Given recent events, the IndigenousX team is concerned that we cannot currently provide a safe space for hosts or followers via this account. As such, we are hitting pause on hosting in order to give us time to consider the best course of action for the future.

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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2 years

I’m grateful for all the work that Senator Thorpe has done, and will continue to do, in spite of the colony. #AssociatingWithLidia

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

Also to be fair, I wish I could enjoy a good comeback instead of sinking into the floor!

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

Anyone who’s had a conversation with me when I’m angry about injustice knows I’m no wilting flower. But here, I experienced the shock of being faced with a cold hard reality that we are unwelcome in someone else’s world, that our existence is wrong. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

9 months

@PercyKaren @abcnews Have you never heard of protest? How does a protest of this kind actually affect the safety of your members? How are you 'distressed' by this?

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

3 years

So no, the accusations of me being a Greens ‘hack’ are wrong. I don’t belong to a political party. I’m a ‘I want Celeste Liddle in parliament’ hack. If you can’t work out why, then you prolly need a coffee and a think. @Utopiana

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

2 years

I have a new lease on life thanks to an amazing person & all of you. This year has been long n hard for many of us. I'm still a bit sick w/Covid, but I want to celebrate that I'm still here in my unvarnished 56-year-old trans Wiradjuri self. #IndigiTrans #IndigiQueer #WeirdTags

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Prof Sandy O'Sullivan (Wiradjuri) 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@sandyosullivan

7 months

Anonymous people trying to get me fired. It's sooooo 2019. My department is the Department of Indigenous Studies ( @IndigStudiesMQ ) & the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures ( @IndigFutures ), they'd love to hear from you that I'm literally doing the job I'm paid for.

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