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Deep dive into Miss Aborigine Claire G Coleman
Authentic BLAK Woman!
Claire claims he “identifies” with the South Coast Noongar people, whatever the fuck that means, on his website bio:
Coleman’s claim rests on his great-great grandmother, an Aborigine woman named Fanny Winnery (aka Binian). Fanny seems to be a hot topic amongst white Western Australian writers. Coleman’s cousins Kim Scott and Sheryl McCorry have each written memoirs that include Fanny’s history. Kim Scott’s book Kayang & Me is about Scott’s attempts to reconnect to his indigenous heritage through an elderly woman who has difficulties getting the family history straight. Scott states his father Tommy is Aborigine. His claim hinges on the same relative as Coleman’s, Fanny Winnery.
Aborigine man Kim Scott:
Sheryl McCorry has no issues laying it out: that Fanny Winnery was the daughter of an Englishman and an Aborigine woman, making Coleman’s seemingly sole claim to Aboriginal heritage resting not on his great-great grandmother but his great-great-great grandmother:
Fanny herself married an Englishman named Ben (later John) Mason. Her daughter Harriet married Irishman Daniel Coleman (Harriet’s sister Dinah marrying Coleman’s twin brother Patrick). Irish Daniel and one quarter Aboriginal Harriet’s son Fred is Claire Coleman’s grandfather.
Authentic BLAK people: Daniel and Harriet Coleman; two of their sons and Claire’s great uncles William and Charles Coleman, brothers to Claire’s grandfather Fred; Claire himself.
Coleman however still insists that he and his family are BLAK:
Claire’s BLAK dad:
Claire’s BLAK family:
An Aborigine woman knows what’s up. Aileen Marwung Walsh calls out both Coleman and his cousin Kim Scott for appropriation, pointing out they’re white guys who’ve used a tenuous claim to indigenous heritage as a means to get published and sell books.
It was Kim’s novel Benang, that Coleman used to “swear in” upon joining some Melbourne literary guild. According to Wiki— in an entry surely written by Kim Scott himself— Benang is “about forced cultural assimilation, and finding how one can return to their own culture.”
It’s not a leap to think Coleman, who has no online presence under his current name before 2016 and admits to being homeless and flunking out of uni, was inspired by his cousin’s LARP to write his own dystopian Aboriginie sci-fi novel, Terra Nullius and sell himself as an Aborigine woman, an identity far more palatable to woke PR departments than a white guy.
Here’s Aileen’s take on Coleman, Kim Scott, and cultural appropriation:
A third person who also seems knowledgeable about the Coleman line steps in:
Here Coleman claims that his family “didn’t know” they were Aborigine and admits his mother’s side is white:
Back to Aileen:
TL;DR Another white man pulling the increasing common double bill of race/sex LARPing as a brave, strong woman of color.
ETA forgot this one:
“I was called Vegemite!” Not mayo?
ETA2: additional info added
Authentic BLAK Woman!
Claire claims he “identifies” with the South Coast Noongar people, whatever the fuck that means, on his website bio:
Coleman’s claim rests on his great-great grandmother, an Aborigine woman named Fanny Winnery (aka Binian). Fanny seems to be a hot topic amongst white Western Australian writers. Coleman’s cousins Kim Scott and Sheryl McCorry have each written memoirs that include Fanny’s history. Kim Scott’s book Kayang & Me is about Scott’s attempts to reconnect to his indigenous heritage through an elderly woman who has difficulties getting the family history straight. Scott states his father Tommy is Aborigine. His claim hinges on the same relative as Coleman’s, Fanny Winnery.
Aborigine man Kim Scott:
Sheryl McCorry has no issues laying it out: that Fanny Winnery was the daughter of an Englishman and an Aborigine woman, making Coleman’s seemingly sole claim to Aboriginal heritage resting not on his great-great grandmother but his great-great-great grandmother:
Fanny herself married an Englishman named Ben (later John) Mason. Her daughter Harriet married Irishman Daniel Coleman (Harriet’s sister Dinah marrying Coleman’s twin brother Patrick). Irish Daniel and one quarter Aboriginal Harriet’s son Fred is Claire Coleman’s grandfather.
Authentic BLAK people: Daniel and Harriet Coleman; two of their sons and Claire’s great uncles William and Charles Coleman, brothers to Claire’s grandfather Fred; Claire himself.
Coleman however still insists that he and his family are BLAK:
Claire’s BLAK dad:
Claire’s BLAK family:
An Aborigine woman knows what’s up. Aileen Marwung Walsh calls out both Coleman and his cousin Kim Scott for appropriation, pointing out they’re white guys who’ve used a tenuous claim to indigenous heritage as a means to get published and sell books.
It was Kim’s novel Benang, that Coleman used to “swear in” upon joining some Melbourne literary guild. According to Wiki— in an entry surely written by Kim Scott himself— Benang is “about forced cultural assimilation, and finding how one can return to their own culture.”
It’s not a leap to think Coleman, who has no online presence under his current name before 2016 and admits to being homeless and flunking out of uni, was inspired by his cousin’s LARP to write his own dystopian Aboriginie sci-fi novel, Terra Nullius and sell himself as an Aborigine woman, an identity far more palatable to woke PR departments than a white guy.
Here’s Aileen’s take on Coleman, Kim Scott, and cultural appropriation:
A third person who also seems knowledgeable about the Coleman line steps in:
Here Coleman claims that his family “didn’t know” they were Aborigine and admits his mother’s side is white:
Back to Aileen:
TL;DR Another white man pulling the increasing common double bill of race/sex LARPing as a brave, strong woman of color.
ETA forgot this one:
“I was called Vegemite!” Not mayo?
ETA2: additional info added
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