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Lucy Norton is a queer, Koori and Quechua gender diverse person currently living on Gadigal country. She is a writer/poet, a trained death doula, an alternative trauma healing practitioner, and all round creative who operates from a decolonial and abolitionist lens. Their writing is often reflective of their upbringing as a poor, mixed heritage kid who was disconnected from culture. It seeks to highlight the legacy of colonisation left on First Nations families, and her personal reclamation through decolonisation practices, and connecting with the land, spirit, ancestors and more than human kin.
For the past few years Lucy has been running a small business, Magpie Song Healing, alongside her sister Jessie. Together they offer empowering practices such as Wayapa Wuurrk, breathwork, and alternative trauma healing. She has a love of weaving as a means of connecting to her ancestors and shares this through workshops with her sister. Lucy is also a trained end-of-life doula, who is passionate about decolonising death care, educating people on their rights and normalising conversations about grief.
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
