Yaama, my people.
I’m gonna keep this short and sweet like myself. (It’s Jordan)
I’ve written this for my light-skinned mob. Over the last two years, I’ve had a lot of yarns, online and in person, and I mean thousands, about who we are and where we fit.
One thing keeps coming up that I don’t hear many people talk about outside of our private conversations, and it’s this…
It can feel really lonely to be proud of who you are and yet still wonder where you belong!
Sometimes it feels like you’re too Black for whitefellas and too white for Blackfellas.
You can walk into one room and feel like you have to explain that you’re Aboriginal, then walk into another and feel like you have to prove it!
After a while, that can wear us down. You might even start keeping to yourself, even when what you really want is to feel like you belong because you don’t know where it is that you do.
That’s why I wanted to write this.
I’ve had so many yarns with our people who’ve felt the same way, and a lot of them thought they were the only ones.
If that’s you, others know exactly what you mean, even if they’ve never said it out loud.
So I’m here to remind you.
Your skin colour doesn’t determine your worth or your connection to culture.
You can be proud of who you are and still be figuring out where you fit.
There’s no shame in that.
You aren’t alone in navigating that experience.
Yarn soon,
Jordan.
