Yangamini
Yangamini (“holes” in Tiwi) is a guerrilla collective initiated in 2022 by Tiwi-Warlpiri Sistagirl elder Crystal Love Johnson Kerinauia, consisting of trans and non-binary First Nations and allied communities.
The collective accommodates First Nations sexual minorities who seek refuge from the rigid gender customs of mainland communities. Yangamini strengthens gender-fluid bush knowledge and challenges missionary sexual oppression, rentier violence, racialised governance, economic control, rhetorical sustainability, and mining extractions in the settler Northern Territory of so-called Australia. Current members include Crystal Love, Francis Jules Kapijiyi Orsto, Ainsley Kerinauia, Romana Paulson, Joachim Tipiloura, Nadine Purranika Lee and Jens ‘Johnita’ Cheung, with connections across Tiwi, Gulumirrgin, Warlpiri, Kunwinjku, Yolŋu, Wardaman, Karajarri, Gurindji, Burarra, Minjunbal, Bundjalung, Mununjali, and other extracted lands and seas.
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