“#Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander people are tired of dealing with the #misinformation, lies, hatred and #racism the #referendum debate is fuelling in society.

Many have questioned Australia’s ability to engage in a debate over the #VoiceToParliament without descending into racist stereotypes and contempt for #Indigenous people.” https://mastodon.social/@theconversationau/111020762214519826

Voting on the #VoiceToParliament could be the most important decision many Australians make this year.

Help us cover this momentous event by taking our short survey.

🔗 Tell us what you need to know before voting: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PWVSKTC

#Indigenous #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #Australia #Auspol #FirstNations #TheVoice

#Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander people are 14% more likely to be diagnosed with #cancer and 20% less likely to survive at least 5 years beyond diagnosis.

While statistics tell us the proportion of #Indigenous people with cancer who die is increasing, the reality is likely worse.

#CancerGap #Health #Medicine #Research #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Academia #AcademicMastodon #Equity #Equality #Australia #Auspol #News

Read more about the #FirstNations cancer gap:

https://theconversation.com/the-cancer-gap-between-first-nations-and-non-indigenous-people-is-widening-but-better-data-could-help-199186?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1675735075

Final call for Australian libraries to complete the First Nations collection description survey - please share! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FNCDsurvey #Libraries #Library #FirstNations #Indigenous #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #GLAM #GLAMR #ALIA #collections #Metedata #CritCat

This is Australia from #Marrugeku. Absolutely amazing, so powerful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZQxLcw6qg&t=265s

#Violence #Colonialism #Dance #Aboriginal #TorresStraitIslander #FirstNations

Mysteriously I still have access to my university email account, where I've just found an email from the #library about the work they've been doing on Culturally Aware #Metadata

Mostly this has been focused on greatly expanding the keywords associated with #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander related texts, so they're much more discoverable as well as more culturally sensitive

e.g. the Woiwurrung language (aka Woiworong, and many more spellings) is spoken by the Wurundjeri people, whom white colonisers variously referred to in their records as "the Yarra Yarra tribe", "Port Phillip tribe", "Jaga Jaga tribe", "Jagger Jagger tribe", "Doutta Galla tribe", "Nuther Galla tribe"

So now the library is better cross-referenced and better prepared for whatever spellings a user might search for

But there's also a case study of how they handle works by or about authors or subjects who change their names, e.g. Elliot Page, and instructions on what you would need to do if your thesis is held in the university library but you have since changed your name (first you need to get your original student record changed)

I was surprised to see that in a lot of these cases an Australian university library takes its cues from the US #LibraryOfCongress

However, the #Indigenous language data comes via #AIATSIS AUSTLANG and the subject and place name terms come from AIATSIS Pathways. A great resource!

https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/search

RT @MargaretSheil@twitter.com

Congratulations to the 150 @QUT@twitter.com #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander students completing their #degrees this year. We celebrated at a special ceremony last night - we can’t wait to see what you do next. @QUT_Elder@twitter.com @jyilawton@twitter.com #QUTGraduate #QUTAlumni

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MargaretSheil/status/1601090121264115712

Looking for authors to read on:
#Aboriginal
#TorresStraitIslander
#Indigenous
#Gender
#Sexuality

Interested in authors who are of the group they are writing on.

Wanting to deconstruct my coloniser thinking.

New Ways for Our Families: Designing an #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander cultural practice framework and system responses to address the impacts of domestic and family violence on children and young people

https://www.anrows.org.au/publication/new-ways-for-our-families-designing-an-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-cultural-practice-framework-and-system-responses-to-address-the-impacts-of-dfv-on-children-and-yo/

#DV #familyviolence #Indigenous #FirstNations

Parents of Gender Diverse Children are collaborating with the amazing, the fabulous, the talented #indigenous #gender diverse team at The Centre For Global Indigenous Futures led by Professor Sandy O’Sullivan.

Their team with lived experience are creating a TOOLKIT FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER GENDER DIVERSE CHILDREN

The toolkit will be shaped by the results of this survey ⤵️

https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eyqbhi0MQbmoi2y

We would love your help sharing this survey so this Toolkit can reflect as many voices as possible

Thanks 😊

#AboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanders #Aboriginal #trans #genderdiverse #TorresStraitIslander #transmob #transkids