Honi Soit 2015, Semester 2

AUTONOMOUS COLLECTIVE AGAINST RACISM Disclaimer: Trigger Warning: The opinions of individual This edition contains authors published in this personal and at times edition do not necessarily graphic accounts of reflect those of ACAR. experiences of racism and other oppressions. e are extremely proud of Most of all ACAR is a community; we’re For our white-identifying readers: cultures and identities provide us. our second ever issue of constantly striving to fulfil our role as we hope this edition provides some We hope that you will find the same WHoni Soit, edited by the a safe space, and as a place of growth further insight. We hope you don’t empowerment and solidarity within Autonomous Collective Against Racism and learning for those who experience take offence, but rather set aside these pages too. (ACAR). As an ode to the importance racism—this ethos extends to our sensitivities to internalise our voices of self determination, autonomy and edition of Honi Soit. This very edition is and consider ways to challenge and We would like to thank the wonderful independence, this issue was written the product of a community that rallied deconstruct the oppressive structures ethnocultural individuals, both on and Acknowledgement Of Country and edited solely by individuals together to create this issue in under you happen to uphold. off campus, for their contributions who identify as a Person of Colour, two weeks, after a major deadline shift. in this edition. It is not always easy efore you begin reading this Indigenous community. Any anti-racist indicate that the White Australian leaders throughout history, who, Indigenous, from an ethno-cultural In a momentous effort, we’ve gathered For our fellow people of colour and to share experiences and thoughts so edition of Honi Soit edited by victories claimed by those who are government’s legacy of disregard against all odds, fight to defend their background, or marginalised by White these pages here for you; we have ethnocultural kids: this is the end freely. Many personal pieces can be the Autonomous Collective non-Indigenous are empty, without full towards Indigenous people, land and land, culture, communities and way of supremacy. Last year we debuted our found the space to express ourselves, to of allowing ourselves to feel shamed triggering and difficult to overcome B or embarrassed by our cultures and emotionally. And while many people Against Racism (ACAR), we ask you to freedom for Australia’s First Nations. culture continues to this day. life. We pay our respects to every brave first edition, which reflected so much challenge assumptions and to defy the join us in acknowledging the Cadigal Therefore we stand in solidarity with warrior fallen during the Frontier Wars. of who we are as a collective and all restrictions of white supremacy that identities. We’re rediscovering the remain concerned with sharing their people of the Eora Nation, upon Indigenous peoples and acknowledge We acknowledge the role of the We pay our respects to the scores killed the experiences both shared and never this nation was built upon. empowerment and solidarity that our opinions or reliving their experiences, whose stolen land the University of that anti-racist activism in Australia police in continuing to suppress the by foreign diseases from the colonisers’ before said. In this paper, we their stories are equally powerful, Sydney stands. The Cadigal people are will never be successful without the Indigenous population through racial use of biological warfare. We pay our aim to once again give voice and we hope that this edition will be variously described as the traditional restoration of land and sovereignty to profiling, police brutality and deaths in respects to every Indigenous child, to those who are left voiceless of solace to them. owners, custodians and caretakers of them. custody. These are injustices that occur woman and man who has died at the in mainstream media, and the land that spans Sydney’s CBD and everyday and contribute to the fact that hands of White Supremacy and to all provide a platform for those Once more this edition clarifies Inner City. However it would be just as We acknowledge the atrocities of Australia’s Indigenous people continue those who continue to live in the face whose stories of oppression that the stereotypes of people accurate to say the opposite; that this the Stolen Generations, the untold to be one of the most over-policed and of it. are too often dismissed in of colour, Indigenous people, land is the traditional owner, custodian destruction it wreaked on Indigenous over-incarcerated populations in the everyday life. ethnocultural minorities and and caretaker of the Cadigal people. families and individuals through the world today. However, we regret to admit that there individuals marginalised by White In truth there is no way in the English forcible removal of children from are no Indigenous voices represented We are proud to present a supremacy are wrong and informed language to sufficiently summarise their families. This attempt to ‘breed We acknowledge that the court in these articles, nor were there any collection of varied experiences by ignorance. To many of the the complex, symbiotic and spiritual out’ Indigineity was nothing short of system continues to be deployed as involved in the editing process. This of people of colour, Indigenous, uneducated wider community, we relationship the Cadigal nation has genocide and no amount of reparation a technology of colonial power. The is a failure we endeavour to remedy ethno-cultural minorities, exist solely as the racial cliche that with this sacred land. will ever repair the damage that has legal regime of this country continues in future publications, and seek to and individuals marginalised politicians and the media portray us been done. We also add that the to prioritise White Supremacy and consciously and respectfully pursue by White supremacy. as. However, as we can see in these We acknowledge that those of us kidnapping of Indigenous children and Indigenous dispossession. This legal the insightful stories and perspectives Intersectionality has always pages, we are writers, editors, poets, who are non-Indigenous and identify the calculated attempt to dismantle system is a daily threat to the lives of our collective’s Indigenous member played (and will hopefully illustrators, photographers and as a Person of Colour, from an Indigenous families continues to this and liberty of First Nations people. that we know are multiple, nuance and continue to play) a significant curators. We exist. Ethno-Cultural background and/or day, with more children than ever being For these reasons, we are wary of unique. role in ACAR’s politics. We marginalized by White Supremacy must taken away from their families by the superficial legislative solutions to sought to include voices that confront our own participation and colonial Australian government. deeply foundational racism. We acknowledge that Australia is are often left behind in non- benefit in the ongoing colonisation of not a post-colonial nation. That this inclusive activism, and we hope sovereign Indigenous land. Whiteness We acknowledge the crimes of We stand in solidarity with Indigenous land was never terra nulius—a myth to empower such voices in this in this country is intrinsically linked the ongoing Northern Territory wom*n who face the highest rates of retrospectively concocted by a colonial edition. Editorial team at 5:55am, 17 continuous hours in this office. Rekt. to the power to colonise and settle Intervention, now in its seventh year. sexual assault and domestic violence regime to justify the genocide and Indigenous land—in this capacity we This military occupation of sovereign in this country. We stand with dispossession it was already enacting. must recognize that all non-Indigenous Indigenous soil blatantly disregards the Indigenous men who experience the That Indigenous sovereignty wasnever carry with them a piece of Whiteness. Colonial State’s own legal obligations highest rates of incarceration and ceded and that until the treaties are and highlights its moral bankruptcy. suicide in this country. And we stand signed, the occupation is ongoing. We acknowledge that Cadigal people We condemn the gross fabrications of with non-binary Indigenous people, ACAR Office Bearers’ Report and the greater Eora nation were ‘paedophile gangs’ and ‘child sex rings’ whose culture’s progressive stance Finally, we, ACAR, acknowledge that the first to suffer, resist and survive used to justify this intervention. These on gender and sexuality was first White Australia has a Black History. bettering the group for all the brutalities of White Supremacy are nothing but old colonial stereotypes suppressed by conservative settlers and By Eden Caceda, Lamisse Hamouda & Kavya Kalutantiri its members. in Australia. Therefore we recognize of deviant black sexuality mobilised to their repressive laws, and then later And we pledge to fight for a Black that our struggle for liberation is facilitate new colonial goals of control, whitewashed by liberal ones. Future. s we approach the middle of Student Representative Council (SRC) for this role. Through this, we also As ACAR continues to intrinsically linked to the centuries- dispossession and criminalisation. second semester and celebrate were elected from the collective. Earlier intend to change the name of the thrive, we still have detractors and long resistance of the Australian With bi-partisan backing, these policies We pay our respects to Indigenous the publishing of this incredible this year we were fortunate to have an department from ‘Ethnic Affairs’ to cynics who are hostile towards our A presence. Last year we received second Autonomous Collective Against Orientation Week stall and be involved ‘Ethnocultural’. This is something we Racism (ACAR) Honi Soit edition, we with welcoming new students to the believe will reflect the autonomy and volumes of hateful messages about take this chance to look back at the collective and the university.

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