Crystal Love and Yangamini
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Crystal Love Johnson is an artist, a performer, an activist, an educator and a mentor. As a Sistergirl elder – the word often used for First Nations trans women – she’s seen and done pretty much everything. Her art collective Yangamini, which consists of trans and non-binary artists, is taking part in the Sydney Biennale. Together, the collective strengthens gender-fluid bush knowledge and challenges sexual repression, racialised governance, and mining extractions in the settler Northern Territory, to name a few things.
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