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SisterGirls on Tiwi Island
I heard this fascinating story on ABC Radio about Australian indigenous TG’s, known locally as SisterGirls, living on the Tiwi Islands just north of Darwin. This link is to the podcast.
There are some 50 SisterGirls living on the island and there is a semi but somewhat tense acceptance within the Tiwi community.
http://blogs.abc.net.au/victoria/2009/11/when-lindy-met-bindi-.html
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the film, “eye” premiered at this year’s sydney film festival. it was a stunning film and at the session i went to, the audience rose and gave it a standing ovation. catch it if you can.
Eye
Andy Canny, Donna McCrum | Australia | 54 minsAward-winning indigenous photographer, Bindi Cole, travels from her Melbourne home to the far north of Australia. She’s been invited by drag performer Foxxy Empire, the alter ego of Tiwi Islander Jason De Santis to document the transgender Sistergirls of his community. She plans to create 12 photographic portraits – positive, celebratory images – and soon realises she must also enlist the help of ‘the mother of all Sistergirls’ Crystal Love.
As Bindi struggles with the logistics of the shoot and being an outsider in a remote community, she listens to stories of the girls’ lives, of family acceptance and rejection, of loneliness and the bond of sisterhood.
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for anyone interested in the follow up to this film/story, bindi cole is now exhibiting her photos from this visit at the australia centre for photography, sydney from 2/9/2010 to 26/9/2010.
for a newspaper item:
and link to the acp:
http://tmp.acp.org.au/current/index.php#sistagirls
and about acp:
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I love this photo. It’s one of Bindi Cole’s Tiwi portraits.
Isn’t she beautiful?
