Queer Australian Art and KINK acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of the lands and waters of this continent. KINK conducts its work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation in Naarm Melbourne, the Turrbal and Jagera peoples in Meanjin Brisbane and the Gadigal lands of the Eora Nation, Sydney. We pay respect to elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.

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You are here too by Kink, published 21.03.2025

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Yangamini

Yangamini
Image courtesy of the artists.

Bio

Yangamini (“holes” in Tiwi) is a guerilla collective initiated 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.

Established 2022 in Wurrumiyanga, Tiwi Islands, Australia. Sprung from 2022 Tiyari, hot and humid season of Tiwi Islands.

Connected through Tiwi, Gulumirrgin, Warlpiri, Kunwinjku, Yolŋu, Wardaman, Karajarri, Gurindji, Burarra, and other extracted lands and seas

Members: Crystal Love Johson Kerinauia; Francis Jules Kapijiyi Orsto; Ainsley Kerinauia; Nadine Lee and Jens ‘Johnita’ Cheung

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