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A collective of First Nations, Women of Colour and Gender Diverse folk of Colour, created to elevate our experiences, celebrate our stories, advocate for our causes and educate ourselves and the wider community on how to do authentic solidarity.

16/04/2026

ANZAC DAY REFRAMED

As played on with the legendary and

Join us:
Saturday, 25th April!!
Mob dance free.
Contact us for pay what you want tickets 🌺

📚⚡The UnCensor[Ed] || Read. Riot. Rebuild. Repeat.Tired of tutoring that treats you like a NAPLAN robot? 🤖These April ho...
20/02/2026

📚⚡The UnCensor[Ed] || Read. Riot. Rebuild. Repeat.

Tired of tutoring that treats you like a NAPLAN robot? 🤖

These April holidays, join The UnCensor[Ed]: A radical, anti-colonial learning cohort for high school students who want to read texts and the world.

We’ll link the English curriculum to real life, right now.

We read, write, reflect, and make art.

We process trauma with care and get curious about the world.

Only 10 students per group. Because real thinking doesn’t happen in crowds.

👥 Who?
High school rebels only. The ones who knew Toni Morrison should’ve been on the syllabus from day one. If you’re done with dead white men telling you what “great literature” is, this is for you.

📚 Yrs 11-12: 8am-10am (Early birds get the worm... and the theory)
🔥 Yrs 9-10: 11am-1pm (The sweet spot for spicy debate)
🌱 Yrs 7-8: 2pm-4pm (Big brains, early stages)

📖 What?
A renegade reading riot where we ONLY examine texts by First Nations, Black, and Femmes of Colour. No apologies. No diversity tokens. Just page-turning, spine-cracking work centered on abolition and liberation.
We read, we rage, we rewrite the whole damn canon.

🕒 When?
Week 2 of the April school holidays.
Monday 13th
Tuesday 14th
Thursday 16th
Friday 17th

📍 Where?
Dharug Land. Location TBC.

🤔 Why?
Because your education has been curated by colonisers.
Because liberation isn’t extra credit - it’s the whole syllabus.
Because the people most silenced have the most to say.

🛠️ How?
Facilitated by experienced, qualified and quirky educators.
We show up. We read together.
We talk back to the text.
We imagine worlds beyond this one.
No assessments. No grades.
Just revolution and good snacks.

💰 Investment (for high school students only!):
✊🏿Solidarity - $250
✊🏾Standard - $150
✊🏽Supported - $80
🖤First Nations - Free

Register via the link in bio - a confirmation email with bank details will come through to secure your spot.

Slots are limited. All brains are welcome.

Questions? [email protected]

Link in bio to join The UnCensor[Ed].
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Lest We Forget is a daytime dance event centring First Nations, Black & brown women & gender-diverse artists whose cultu...
14/02/2026

Lest We Forget is a daytime dance event centring First Nations, Black & brown women & gender-diverse artists whose cultural labour, creativity & resistance have shaped, challenged & subverted the violences of empire.

This is not a commemoration of nationhood.

Instead, it is a celebration of the survival, brilliance & joy of communities who have always carried culture forward, often unseen, often unpaid, often unacknowledged.

Lest We Forget gathers community on unceded First Nations’ land to dance, witness & celebrate the artistry of Black & brown femmes & gender-diverse DJs.

It is an offering of
🌀pleasure as protest
🌀rhythm as remembrance and
🌀joy as a reclamation of space

The event foregrounds First Nations sovereignty, global south futurisms & the ancestral lineages that continue to guide us. It centres the cultural, musical & organising labour of women and gender-diverse people of colour, those who have historically done the work of building movements, holding communities & imagining liberated futures.

🎶decks spun by tiddalicious & oro_ana__

🎙️smack talk & hosted by &

📆 Saturday, 25th April
⏰ 12pm-5pm
📍Dharug Land, Common House Studios, Glendenning
🍽️ Vegan snacks for purchase & hydration station
🎟️ Mob dance for free
🌞 This event will occur on the unceded lands of the Dharug people
🌱 Always was, always will be Aboriginal land
❤️ Register via link in bio


Lest We Forget is a daytime dance event centring First Nations, Black & brown women and gender-diverse artists whose cul...
14/02/2026

Lest We Forget is a daytime dance event centring First Nations, Black & brown women and gender-diverse artists whose cultural labour, creativity & resistance have shaped, challenged & subverted the violences of empire.

This is not a commemoration of nationhood.

Instead, it is a celebration of the survival, brilliance & joy of communities who have always carried culture forward, often unseen, often unpaid, often unacknowledged.

Lest We Forget gathers community on unceded First Nations’ land to dance, witness & celebrate the artistry of Black & brown femmes & gender-diverse DJs.

It is an offering of
🌀pleasure as protest
🌀rhythm as remembrance &
🌀joy as a reclamation of space

The event foregrounds First Nations sovereignty, global south futurisms & the ancestral lineages that continue to guide us.

It centres the cultural, musical & organising labour of women & gender-diverse people of colour, those who have historically done the work of building movements, holding communities & imagining liberated futures.

🎶Decks spun by




🎤 Vibes & hosting by



📆 Saturday, 25th April
⏰ 12pm-5pm
📍Dharug Land, Common House Studios, Glendenning
🍽️ Vegan snacks for purchase & hydration station
🎟️ Mob dance for free
🌞 This event will occur on the unceded lands of the Dharug people
🌱 Always was, always will be Aboriginal land
❤️ Register via link in bio





We are the mainstream is proud to present the inaugural Festival of Rage, a groundbreaking event dedicated to a radical ...
02/11/2025

We are the mainstream is proud to present the inaugural Festival of Rage, a groundbreaking event dedicated to a radical idea:
🔥 that our rage is not a flaw, but a formidable force.
🌊 that our grief is not a life sentence, but a source of profound depth and power.
💪🏿 This is not a protest of anger, but a powerful proclamation of our collective strength.

This day-long sanctuary invites guests on a transformative journey to during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence to:
1. ACKNOWLEDGE the righteous fury and profound sorrow caused by gender-based violence (GBV).
2. EXPLORE our collective and personal strategies for not just surviving, but thriving.
3. ALCHEMISE our pain into beauty, our grief into joy, and our survival into gratitude.

The Council of Fire - Expert Panel Discussion
We begin by breaking the silence with a panel of luminaries: lived-experience survivors, trauma specialists, and community leaders. This is not a conversation of victimhood, but one of warrior wisdom. They will share their stories of rage, their paths through grief, and the powerful coping mechanisms that have allowed them to reclaim their power. This is a foundational session of truth-telling, validation, and collective strength.

The Forge of Creation - Art & Making Workshops
We then move from discourse to creation, believing that while the body keeps the score, the hands can help rewrite the story. Participants will choose from immersive workshops designed to physically transmute emotion into art, transforming inner turmoil into tangible beauty and power.

Join us for this vital gathering of reclamation and radical joy.

📆 Sunday, 7th November
⏰ 1:00pm - 6:00pm
📍 Wangal Land, Thinning Villa, 40 Arthur St, Ashfield
🍽️ Vegan late lunch & hydration station provided (BYO takeaway crockery)
🎟️ Tiered ticketing. Register via our bio.

While everyone is welcome, this event prioritises and centres First Nations, gender diverse folks and women of colour.

we are the mainstream is an antifascist collective. This event is not a safe space for carceral, casteist, TERF, SWerf, or zio “feminist” ideologies.


Romantic Revolutionaries // coffee painting w/ Emmanuel Asante
🖼️ colourism, misogynoir and anti-Blackness over coffee p...
14/03/2025

Romantic Revolutionaries // coffee painting w/ Emmanuel Asante

🖼️ colourism, misogynoir and anti-Blackness over coffee painting 
📅 Friday, 25th April 
⏰ 10.00am to 12.00pm
📍 The Grounds Keeper Cafe, Blacktown, Darug
🎟 Tickets are strictly limited, income-based and tiered and include basic supplies. Register link in bio. 
✊🏾 BIPOC and allies welcome 
🥘 BYO snacks to share. Coffee available at the cafe.
🌱 Can’t be there? Send through a solidarity contribution to pay it forward
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ID: Headshot of a dark-skinned man, Emmanuel Asante, within a circle frame with the word ‘romance’ in different languages.

ID 2: text with information on it as it is above, in red and green plain font.

Romantic Revolutionaries // wheel throwing with Elsie Zhao
🪔 slow, steady, breathing through wheel throwing
📅 Friday, 21...
11/03/2025

Romantic Revolutionaries // wheel throwing with Elsie Zhao

🪔 slow, steady, breathing through wheel throwing
📅 Friday, 21st March 
⏰ 6.30pm—8.30pm
📍 Parramatta Clay & Arts Inc, Parramatta, Darug
🎟 Tickets are strictly limited, income-based and tiered and include basic supplies. Register via link in bio. 
✊🏾 This is a BIPOC prioritised space
🥘 BYO snacks to share.
🌱 Can’t be there? Send through a solidarity contribution to pay it forward
.
ID: Headshot of Elise Zhao seated at a wheel, looking down at a piece of clay she is working with.

ID 2: text with information on it as it is above, in red and green plain font.

Romantic Revolutionaries // zine it all with Can Yalcinkaya

🖼️ Political zine making with Can Yalcinkaya
📅 Saturday, 22...
07/02/2025

Romantic Revolutionaries // zine it all with Can Yalcinkaya

🖼️ Political zine making with Can Yalcinkaya
📅 Saturday, 22nd February
⏰ 11.00am-2.00pm
📍 Max Webber Library, Blacktown, Darug
🎟 Tickets are income-based and tiered and include basic supplies. Register link in bio.
✊🏾 This is a family-friendly event and all are welcome; children 12 and under must be actively supervised with their grown up.
🌞 First Nations are invited to join us free of charge.
🥘 BYO snacks to share.
🌱 Can’t be there? Send through a solidarity contribution to pay it forward
.
ID: Headshot of Can Yalcinkaya, a Turkish middle-aged man with a short beard, wearing glasses and a black shirt. 

ID 2: text with information on it as it is above, in red and green plain font.

Ia year that comes off the back of continued global crises, Labor’s policy failure and the continued genocide of First N...
15/01/2025

Ia year that comes off the back of continued global crises, Labor’s policy failure and the continued genocide of First Nations and Palestinian people, join us as we meet with Deputy Leader of the Greens, Dr Mehreen Faruqi over an intimate potluck meal.

Hear about her plans for the campaign for people and planet and how we can all organise and mobilise to deliver change.

Community care and curiosity has never been more urgent.
 
She is deeply committed to improving diversity and ensuring parliaments are truly reflective of our streets and suburbs as well as pushing to dismantle the systems of power, privilege and patriarchy.
 
She has been the strongest voice on Palestine in Parliament and has continually called out the ongoing genocide in Gaza as well as for an end to the occupation and apartheid.
 
Last year was an incredibly difficult year. But amid the grief, we have been able to build the foundations of a strong community rooted in justice, equality and human dignity. It’s important to remember that during these times, solidarity and community are the antidote.

-
🔈 Dr Mehreen Faruqi
📅 Wednesday, 22nd January
⏰ 6.00pm-8.00pm
📍 Blacktown, Darug. Address provided 12 hours beforehand.
🎟 $0 First Nations; $5 for all others. Link in bio.
✊🏾 All welcome.
🌱 BYO vegetarian dish to share.
ID: a headshot of Senator Mehreen Faruqi. She wears a black shalwar top and behind her are the words love/romance in Arabic, Spanish, English and Tamil.

ID 2: text with information on it as it is above, in red and green plain font.


 
 
 



‼️ UPDATED DATE with just a FEW TICKETS LEFT ‼️Romantic Revolutionaries //In a nod to Meena Kandasamy’s tribute to the l...
26/11/2024

‼️ UPDATED DATE with just a FEW TICKETS LEFT ‼️
Romantic Revolutionaries //

In a nod to Meena Kandasamy’s tribute to the late , writer, poet and political prisoner, Professor G. N. Saibaba, Romantic Revolutionaries are offerings that bring co-conspirators together to commune and carve out spaces that provide grounding and nurturing and allow for collective joy, healing and resistance against colonial violence here, there and everywhere.

🖼️ expressive art workshop facilitated by Lebanese artist and writer, Amani Haydar
📅 Thursday, 12th December ‼️
⏰ 6.30pm-8.30pm
📍 Khamsa Eatery, St Peters, Gadigal
🎟 Tickets are income-based and tiered and include a delicious eggplant makloubeh by Khamsa
✊🏾 All welcome. First Nations and Falesteeni guests are invited to join us free of charge.
🌱 Can’t be there? Send through a solidarity contribution to pay it forward
ID: a headshot of Lebanese woman, Amani Haydar. She wears a deep maroon hijab and behind her are the words love/romance in Arabic, Spanish, English and Tamil.

ID 2: text with information on it as it is above, in red and green plain font.

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