Case study: 'Blak' - Australian Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe

Lidia Thorpe is a Senator for the Australian Greens political party, and is also an Aboriginal Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman.

In this tweet from March 2021, Thorpe uses the adjective 'Blak' with non-Standard orthography to represent her own Indigenous identity, and to show solidarity with the community on a sensitive issue.

Read more here about the significance of this term.