Naif Jamie Martin
Naif-Jamie Martin (She/They) is a queer, trans musician and poet living on Gadigal land.
Naif-Jamie Martin (She/They) is a queer, trans musician and poet living on Gadigal land.
Lucy Norton is a queer & gender diverse writer and poet currently living on Gadigal country.
Marley is a photographer whose work has been featured in Vogue, Frankie & Marie Claire.
Desirai Saunders is a Gunggari digital illustration, mural artist and emerging writer living in Meanjin.
Melanie Mununggurr is a Djapu mother, writer, poet and spoken word artist. Melanie writes in both English and Dhuwal about identity, family, autism and various social issues.
Boe Spearim is the host of Frontier War Stories
Cienan is a self professed lover of all things pop culture and the creator of Indiginerd!
Emma is an illustrator, designer and artist living in Naarm, but grew up on Guringai and Darkinjung country. Her Ngemba/Ngiyampaa, Dutch and Irish ancestry heavily inspires her personal work; full of nature, spirit, magic, mystery and folklore that makes your inner child jump for joy.
Source Decay is Awesome Black’s resident composer and has made theme and episode music for Broriginals, Trash Tiddas, Yarn Quest, Fear of a Blak Planet and The Awesome Black Summer Playlist.
Uncle Mot (or Mot as he goes by) is an avid Indigenous food appreciator. He hosts the YouTube channel Uncle Mot’s Kitchen
Dominic Guerrera is a Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian person and lives on Kaurna Yarta.
I’m Jade (but most people call me Jadey) My focus and passion is to create colourful work created for a younger audience, such as children’s
For the better part of a decade, MR RHODES has been a true alchemist of sounds both ancient and futuristic. Prolific producer/beat-maker, award-winning lyricist/performer and
Amy is one of the co-hosts of Trash Tiddas and is currently working on her first solo outing.
Tully is a co-host of Trash Tiddas and runs the Yarn Quest education program.
Brooke is one of the hosts of Yarn Quest and Trash Tiddas.
Travis De Vries is the founding director of Awesome Black and an avid artist.
He formally produced and hosted flagship show Broriginals & Fear of a Blak Planet. He currently hosts Awesome Black Summer Playlist.
At Awesome Black we don’t like to talk about the deficit that First Nations people have gone through, we don’t like to talk about the history of government failures and the effects they have had on our communities. We recognise that they have happened, but we want to talk about what we can do right now to get things moving forward for us, by us.
At Awesome Black we are attempting to create a system where wealth stays in our communities and we can build up Blakenomics, supporting each other’s businesses and community. At every point when we buy something we think… can we buy this from a First Nations person, if the answer is yes we do it, if the answer is no… we ask more questions. Why not? And how do we make sure that we can in the future?
Awesome Black acknowledges the traditional owners across the lands on which we live and work.
Awesome Black is about First Nations, first in everything we do. A community of skilled creators are ready to collaborate. If you have an idea for a project get in touch.
hello@awesomeblack.org