Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! NAIDOC Week 2022

Happy NAIDOC Week!

This NAIDOC Week and every week moving forward, I am asking you to Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! alongside me, and the community. Use your professional and personal capacity to amplify our voices and narrow the gap between aspiration and reality, good intent, and outcome.

Put your good hearts into good work and actions!

There are many ways you can get up, stand up, show up, here’s just a few:

Share the mic – offer your social media handle to a First Nations voice for a day. Provide a space to share their stories with your followers who may need to improve  / increase their story listening. Listening is key to learning.

Act on the big issues, write to your MP about the Uluru Statement and support our voice to parliament.

Consider workplace giving or even a one-off donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation or the National Justice Project who represent families in court seeking justice for a relative who has died in custody.

Support Blak businesses – buy a book, a hoodie, a coffee or any number of products and services as a practical way to grow our economies as sole traders, entrepreneurs and social enterprises.

Share the businesses you support with others.

Here’s a few I support:

Love art / wearable art? Buy from the Aboriginal Art Co   (disclosure: I’m on the Board and they carry Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray).

Want a deadly tee – check out Dark and Disturbing, order something for yourself, or a friend.

Clothing the Gaps have some great ‘Ally Friendly’ merch.

Check out #BuyBlak on Twitter to support a range of businesses nationally.

Add your favourite Blak business with links below, and I’ll give them a shout out on my other platforms too.

Ryhia Dank, a young Gudanji/Wakaja artist from the NT designed this year’s winning poster

And remember, keep up the allyship and support every week of the year, not just one week in July.

Mandaang guwu,

Anita