Blak Out

“Blak: a term used by some Aboriginal people to reclaim historical, representational, symbolical, stereotypical and romanticised notions of Black or Blackness.”
Destiny Deacon 2004

#ListenBlak: Ten podcasts to tune into
#ReadBlak: Fifteen books to read
#WatchBlak: Fifteen movies to watch
Blak Out Q&A with Aboriginal Student Club
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About the Aboriginal Student Club

Did you know the Aboriginal Student Club welcomes everyone? In fact, the more the merrier!

The Aboriginal Student Club was established to give voice, support and friendship to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to ensure they have the best university experience possible. We are committed to supporting our mob by ensuring we promote an inclusive and safe campus. We’re here to combat racism, build community and create change! We hope to create change not only within our cohort but the wider University student body – so you are all invited! We are committed to centring Aboriginal knowledge systems, ancient wisdom and ways of knowing, being and doing to protect our nations for future generations.

Come decolonise and destress with us; no matter your interests, we’re here for you. So join us!

About The Blak Out Project

The Blak Out edition of Verse Magazine was published late September 2020, a collaboration lead by the UniSA Aboriginal Student Club and Verse Magazine. The project aimed to celebrate the showcase of Aboriginal student excellence and included hosting rolling launch events from September right up until NAIDOC in November.

#ListenBlak with the Aboriginal Student Club

Ten podcasts to #ListenBlak

• Wild Black Women: See more here
• Blacademia: Listen here
• The ASH Podcast: Listen here
• Let’s Talk: Pretty for an Aboriginal: See more here
• Broriginals: Listen here
• Always Was, Always Will be Our Stories: Listen here
• Word Up: Listen here
• The Skyentists: More here
• Take it Blak: Listen here
• Debutante: Race, Resistance and Girl Power: More here

Playlist to #ListenBlak

#ListenBlak with hours of carefully curated music by Dylan from the Aboriginal Student Club.

#ReadBlak with the Aboriginal Student Club

Fifteen books to #ReadBlak

Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today / edited by Allison Whittaker – see more here
Too Much Lip / Melissa Lucashenko – see more here
Dark Emu / Bruce Pascoe – see more here
Sand Talk / Tyson Yunkapoorta – see more here
Growing up in Aboriginal Australia / edited by Anita Heiss – see more here
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia / Marcia Langton – see more here
Not just black and white : a conversation between a mother and daughter / Lesley Williams – see more here
After the carnage / Tara June Winch – see more here
Black is the new white / Nakkiah Lui – see more here
Terra Nullius / Claire G. Coleman – see more here
Am I Black Enough for You? / Anita Heiss – see more here
Finding the Heart of the Nation / Thomas Mayor – see more here
Tell me why / Archie Roach – see more here
Born Again Blackfella / Jack Charles – see more here
The White Girl / Tony Birch – see more here

#WatchBlak with the Aboriginal Student Club

Fifteen movies to #WatchBlak

In my blood it runs – see more here
Ten Canoes – see more here
Charlie’s Country – see more here
Mabo – see more here
Samson and Delilah – see more here
Rabbit Proof Fence – see more here
Emu Runner – see more here
The Sapphires – see more here
Sweet Country – see more here
Radiance – see more here
Crocodile Dreaming – see more here
Babakiueria – see more here
Jedda – see more here
BeDevil – see more here
Dark Place – see more here

Q&A with Aboriginal Student Club

Join Noah and Rhys from the USASA Student Board talking to Tabitha, Colin, Dylan and Yalilan from the Aboriginal Student Club.

Hear the answers to the questions you asked including:
?What is the best thing about being Aboriginal?
?How do you connect with your heritage?
?What daily struggles do you face that allies might not think of, but they could help with?