Jez @petrichor@scholar.social

And I don't mean cutesy theatrical "Ugh racism makes me so mad!! >:(" stuff when it's hip and they can do it without offending their other white friends, I mean the kind of belly-deep, boiling, bursting rage when you really *get* how fucked up and wrong all this is, how much has already been ripped away and will be ripped away by the systemic dehumanization of Black and Indigenous peoples. The kind of anger that drives you to tell your friends to go fuck themselves. No more pledges to "do better," no more teachable moments where you treat the pain of BIPOC as opportunities to better yourselves. No more belief in "progress," no more comfortable distance that gives you the benefit of being beatifically benevolent.

If white people can't feel anti-racism to be THEIR OWN fight that they have skin and blood and guts in then they will, at best, be placating bystanders and whiny "allies" who demand to be carried and catered to at every step.

@ljwrites also it's good practice when introducing First Nations people in so-called Australia to use the name of their people and where they are from (often in settler naming, to clarify). Also worth noting, it's not generally polite as a non-aboriginal person to use the word 'tribe' here. So in summary, Lilla Watson is a Gangulu woman from central Queensland.

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