Karen Wyld / is on Nostr

Aboriginal person (Martu)

Desert winds in my veins, sea air in my lungs.

Author
(see website for books and full CV)
- 2024 South Australia Literary Fellowship (First Nations)
- 2022 Tangkanungku Pintyanthi Literary Fellowship

I started auto-boosters [@indigenousauthors](https://a.gup.pe/u/indigenousauthors ) (see pinned post) and [@auslit](https://a.gup.pe/u/auslit )
and [@gazafunds](https://a.gup.pe/u/gazafunds ) (see https://gazafunds.com/about for more campaigns)

Paypal > paypal.me/KarenAWyld
ko fi > https://ko-fi.com/KarenWyld

Author website: https://karenwyld.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/KarenWyld
Shout me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/karenwyld
Goodreads author page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/7557361.Karen_Wyld

Last Notes

2024-07-08 14:54:48

If Mastodon allowed us to close or limit replies (like the birdsite and bluesky does), this place would be far less urgh. Please give us better tools to reduce the rampant reply guy problem :ablobcattrash:
And "hide reply". Please give us that :angy:

2024-07-08 10:46:40

Nine months into a genocide, and some of you are still more upset over a liberation slogan than the horrific deaths of approx 200,000 Palestinians and the displacement & starvation of 2.5 million Palestinians.
Get a grip, you sooky ghouls.
Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea.
But you'll still be a fuckhead.

2024-07-08 05:45:54

today, there are people in shock/disbelief over an article in The Lancet that conservatively estimates the death toll in Gaza to be 186,000+ Palestinians (8% of Gaza) > https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
For those who've been paying attention, and getting information beyond mainstream/biased sources, this is not a shock. It is a very conservative estimate.
The Electronic Intifada published a piece by Susan Abulhawa on 27 June that presented a credible case for a similar death rate >
https://electronicintifada.net/content/math-proves-israels-stated-goals-are-epic-lie/47371
The Lancet (an independent medical journal with a solid global reputation) has stood up, and spoken up. More organisations and publications need to do the same.
Pressure needs to be put on the state of Israel to cease their brutal campaign in Palestine and the West Bank: which includes massacres, torture, designed starvation, ethnic cleansing, destruction of resources and land, expanded settlements, and genocide in Palestine.
The apartheid regime of Israel continues to break international laws and countless human rights. The world helped to dismantle apartheid South Africa. Now it needs to dismantle apartheid Israel.
Free Palestine, from the river to the sea 🍉 ✊🏾
@npub1zxn…0kqm #Palestine

2024-06-17 11:36:25

sooooo :baba_tired: today.
Might mix up some (commercial) kava powder tonight, to see if that helps my insomnia

2024-06-08 15:34:14

The Trojan Pier
We all saw that coming.
A pox on US and Israeli for this latest massacre of civilians.
Never forget
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

2024-05-29 05:38:10

Burning people alive.
Strategic starvation.
Beheading babies.
Interfering with deceased persons.
Rape and sexual assault.
Preventing birth/killing newborns.
Stealing children.
Torture.
Dehumanisation.
Racism
Sadistic murdering.
Forced displacement.
Trapping people.
Disregard of life.
Settlement via violence.
Genocide.
Massacres.
Apartheid.
Resource theft.
Forced labour.
Lies and lies and lies and lies.
The weaponry has changed, but every act of evil that Israel is committing is mirrored in other colonisers' acts of evil that took place on other Indigenous peoples' lands. Indigenous people cannot help but see ourselves in Palestinians.
Free Palestine! Free us all

2024-05-26 04:54:20

Today is Sorry Day in so-called Australia. "Sorry" does not refer to apologies. It's based on Indigenous practices of Sorry Business; a collective process in times of grief & loss.
It's a day of remembrance for the 10000s of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families: the Stolen Generations. Taken between late 1800s to early 1980s, the children were placed in church-run institutions or (later) put up for adoption without parental consent.
Up until the late 1950s, the children were trained for domestic servitude and unpaid labouring and sent to white businesses and households. The abuse and neglect in the institutions and elsewhere was rampant. Many died in these places; not everyone who survived found their families; and most have passed away without seeing any justice.
Every Indigenous family has one or more members that were part of the Stolen Generations. And the trauma of this particular act of genocide is intergenerational.
Sorry Day was one of the recommendations of a royal commission - the Bringing them home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. Which was tabled with the Australian
Parliament on 26 May 1997.
Another recommendation was a national apology, and that occurred on 13 February. Otherwise, very few of the 54 recommendations have been actioned.
In more recent years, in addition to commemorating the Stolen Generations and advocating for their rights, this day is also for fighting for the rights of Indigenous children who are being taken away in record numbers.
Today, I think of my family members who were stolen by the government, and forced into servitude as children. Fuck the government, churches and others who participated in this race-based cruelty; who used Aboriginal blood, sweat and tears to build a white nation on stolen Blak land. Yes, Sorry Day is also a day of anger.
For more information, resources and testimonials, visit the Healing Foundation website > https://healingfoundation.org.au/stolen-generations/
This video is good (narrated by the late Uncle Jack Charles) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlqx8EYvRbQ
And a fact sheet > https://healingfoundation.org.au/sorry-day-factsheet/
#SorryDay #Indigenous #Genocide #StolenGenerations #ChildRemoval #Missions #ChildLabour #Aboriginal

2024-05-12 05:05:02

Today, my thoughts are with Palestinian mothers, from the river to the sea.
Who're listening to their babies cry in hunger.
Who's arms are empty.
Who're worried about where they can safely give birth.
Who tell bedtime stories to frightened children, while bombs fall.
Who yearn to hug their children, who lie under rubble.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸

2024-05-06 16:20:27

All eyes on Rafah.
Block genocide apologists.
All eyes on Gaza.
Don't feed Zionist trolls.
All eyes on Palestine.
Disengage from people who stand with apartheid Israel.
Envision a liberated Palestine, from the river to the sea 🍉