NAIDOC Week 2024: Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud
Happy NAIDOC week to all mob - a time to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s history, culture, community, accomplishments and resistance.
This NAIDOC week and every day, Vixen pays our respects and acknowledges the strength, resilience, power and pride of sovereign First Nations’ peoples.
In the spirit of this year’s NAIDOC theme; Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud, Vixen especially celebrates the proud achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sex workers in our communities and movement. We see your power burning bright in staunch advocacy, tireless mutual aid and leading the way toward shared decolonised liberation!
We stand in solidarity with Blak sex workers and all First Nations peoples in the struggle for sovereignty, land back, truth-telling and treaty.
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Decolonise Sex Work AU
@decolonisesexworkau
Blak sex work collective, working to decolonise and destigmatise Indigenous sex work in so-called Australia. Mutual aid and so much more!
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Sex Worker Advisory Group (ATSISWAG)
ATSISWAG support and advocate for Blak Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sex workers, and consult, advise and provide leadership on issues affecting the community to Scarlet Alliance and in the wider sex worker movement. ATSISWAG are all volunteers, there is currently no funding for the group.
Events in Narrm
Flag Raising Ceremony
Where: Federation Square
When: Monday July 8, 8am
BLAKtivism
A reflective and provocative panel event, Bebe Oliver discusses the currency of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander activism.
Where: narrm ngarrgu Library
When: Thursday July 11, 5:15pm - 6:30pm
NAIDOC Community March
Where: Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
When: Friday July 12, 10am
NAIDOC Week Community Day
Welcome to Country, First Nations-led activities like arts and crafts, live music, face painting, storytelling and cultural education.
Where: Melbourne Zoo
When: Sunday July 14, 9am - 5pm
3CR’s Beyond the Bars
A series of broadcasts, featuring stories, songs, opinions and poems from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates in Victorian prisons.
When: July 8 - 12 2024
Programming schedule: 3cr.org.au/beyondthebars2024
Yarning Strong x NAIDOC Week panel
Join Mitch Tambo alongside other First Nations creatives as they explore 2024’s NAIDOC theme in the context of how resilience, mental health and wellbeing can be expressed through music.
Where: The Retreat Hotel, Bulle-bek (Brunswick)
When: Wedneday July 10, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Camp Sovereignty
Uncle Robbie holds a sacred fire ceremony, held at the burial site that honours the 38 Kulin nations ancestors repatriated there.
@campsovereignty
campsovereignty.com
Where: so-called King’s Domain
When: Sunday July 7 & 14 (and every Sunday) at 2pm