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[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So when he says "black" I think he means Aboriginal... Some Googling shows me that he claims to be of Noongar heritage:

https://agencyprojects.org/home (scroll down down dooooown or word search claire.)

In this wikipedia page of noteable Noongar people, you see that some of them that have photos are WHITE AF in appearance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Noongar_people

Sooooooo................... I'm gonna hold off on making a judgment one way or the other about this race situation. I have no idea how they categorize mixed people who look white in Australia. Is it a one-drop rule? Is having one ancestor 500 years ago enough to make you "black"? I have no clue.

On the other hand, he wouldn't be the first trans person to appropriate a race, I can't remember the name but there has been at least one or two trans people who pretended to be part Native American, also authors like this dude.

Do they call aboriginal people "black" in Australia?

(I'm not defending this dude, I honestly don't believe he is Noongar. (after digging around more, I see other Noongar have accepted him as one of their own, so that's good enough for me.) But it's always good to have more info in situations like this.)

EDIT - He also appears to be having a meltdown on Twitter currently. DIe TeRFs DiE! type ranting and raving....

[–]GaiusHelenMohiam 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The legal standard is if you consider yourself an aborigine and other aborigines accept you as such. No idea about this guy.