BLACKBOOKS®

BLACKBOOKS® is Australia’s premiere Aboriginal owned social enterprise selling books and educational resources produced by, for and about First Nations Australia. Included in this endeavour is the development of outLOUD: a First Nations LGBTQIA+ story and writing group, to increase the confidence and skills of First Nations LGBTQIA+ community members to share their stories through writing, publishing and or performance.

Their Small Grant is funding pay honorarium to emerging and established First Nations LGBTQIA+ writers and performers.

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Acknowledgement of Country

Pride Foundation Australia pays respect to the traditional custodians of the land and sea on which we live, work and play, we pay our respects to Elders past and present, acknowledging that sovereignty was never ceded.

Pride Foundation Australia commits through the resources we have available to us, to work with, for, and alongside Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy peoples and communities to embed a self-determined future.

We further commit the contribution of a significant proportion of grant funding received to Aboriginal Torres Strait  South Sea Islander LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy led initiatives to improve social outcomes.

Australia was, and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.