nicollekidman:

i have so much beef with the concept of time 

(via lovekist)

secondstringheroine:

Just a reminder to everyone who thinks this “Invasion Day” business should be put behind us; until 1967 Aboriginal people, their lives and well being, were regulated under the Flora and Fauna Act, meaning that they weren’t even classed as human.

That’s less than 50 years ago.

The legal recognition of Aboriginal humanity in Australia is younger than my father, and that generation still holds the reins of power today.

This history exists, and it doesn’t go away overnight.

katalizi:

Australia: We’ve made a film staring Indigenous women!

UK/USA: You’ve fucked up a perfectly good story about a white man is what you’ve done. Look at it. It’s got representation.

the-movemnt:

Aboriginal activist calls Chanel’s new $1325 boomerang “so wrong it is almost absurd”

• A cool $1325 can bag you Chanel’s new spring-summer 2017 pre-collection wood & resin black boomerang. Absurd? Perhaps. Unthinkable? Hardly. Offensive? To some.
  
• The high-priced luxury good (which Chanel has been selling in various iterations since 2004) first made the rounds on Monday, after makeup artist Jeffree Star Instagrammed his affection for the new product.
  
• Over 160K people ‘liked’ the post with over 5,000 comments, many saying the brand appropriated indigenous Australian culture.“
• As someone who lives in Australia and has been taught about discrimination toward Aboriginals, this is ethically wrong,” wrote @actually.james. Read more (5/16/17)
  

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