Yangamini Collective

Yangamini (“holes” in Tiwi) is a guerrilla collective initiated in 2022 by Tiwi-Warlpiri Sistagirl elder Crystal Love Johnson Kerinauia, consisting of trans and non-binary First Nations and allied communities. The collective accommodates First Nations sexual minorities who seek refuge from the rigid gender customs of mainland communities. Yangamini strengthens gender-fluid bush knowledge and challenges missionary sexual oppression, rentier violence, racialised governance, economic control, rhetorical sustainability, and spiritual and mining extractions in the settler Northern Territory of so-called Australia. Current members include Crystal Love, Nadine Birrimilunngga Purranika Lee, Vivian "Buffy" Warlapinni-Kerinauia, Romana Paulson, Joachim Tipiloura, and Jonita, with connections across Tiwi, Gulumirrgin, Warlpiri, Kunwinjku, Yolŋu, Wardaman, Karajarri, Gurindji, Burarra, Minjunbal, Bundjalung, Mununjali, Hēung Góng and other extracted lands and seas.