today's #IndigenousWriter #AmWriting involves reimagining the past and present. Which always starts with questioning/challenging.

What would the past 80 years have been like if Australia had been forced to end the following sooner:
enforced incarceration of Aboriginal people on reserves/missions, forced removal & institutionalisation of Aboriginal children, forced unpaid Aboriginal servitude and labour (including enslavement); apartheid/segregation of Aboriginal peoples; and State control over Aboriginal women and girls' relationships and reproduction.

Stronger social, emotional wellbeing, as Aboriginal people would not have been punished for speaking languages, practicing cultures, or prohibited access to their ancestral land. Aboriginal children would have grown up in family & community - strong, healthy and connected. Aboriginal people would not have been made to consume unhealthy, inefficient rations. Less comorbidities and intergenerational trauma. Reduced State and settler violence, murders, rape, and massacres of Aboriginal people.

If every Aboriginal man, woman and child had escaped institutions, incarceration and enslavement from 1930s (these laws & practices were abolished 1960 - 1980s), "Nation building" of Australia wouldn't have relied on an unpaid labour force during and after WWii.

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ALSO!! For any #indigenouswriter just seeing this today, you don't need a finished script. Just pitch me your concept and if I like it, I can find some time in our production schedule for you to finish it up.

I'd hate to miss out on some rad stories just because of colonial concepts such as deadlines XD

Today's the deadline for submissions to Indiginerds: Tales of Modern Indigenous Life. You have until midnight PST to get your submissions in to us.
@ironcircuscomix

Can't wait to see what you've got! kinanâskomitin ✋❤️🤚
https://ironcircus.com/indiginerds-tales-of-modern-indigenous-life/

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