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 11.04.2025

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Yangamini

Yangamini (“holes” in Tiwi), is a guerrilla collective of Sistagirls that was initiated in 2022 by Tiwi-Warlpiri elder Crystal Love Johnson Kerinauia. The collective accommodates trans and non-binary First Nations members and accomplices to support sexual minorities who seek refuge from the rigid gender customs of mainland communities. Yangamini strengthens gender-fluid bush knowledge and challenges missionary sexual oppression, frontier violence, racialised governance, economic control, rhetorical sustainability, and mining extractions in the settler Northern Territory. 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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