What’s in store in 2016, includes a visit with UNPFII at the United Nations HQ in New York.

There is much that needs to be interrogated when it comes to Indigenous suicide.

Originally from Darwin, Dameyon has Aboriginal (Mangarai), Torres Strait Islander (Mabuiag) and caucasian heritage. He lives on the lands of the Yawuru people in the West Kimberley.

Dameyon not only founded the Indigenous LGBTQI support group Black Rainbow Australia, he’s a member of the expert panel of the National Advisory Committee for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP) and is researching suicide prevention. “There is much that needs to be interrogated when it comes to Indigenous suicide.”

Artwork by JD Delaney 2016 © Black Rainbow™

“I’m continuing on the expert panel for ATSISPEP and advising on the the first ever National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference to be held this May. Also I’m attending the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples in New York. Hopefully, I’ll successfully lobby for an international consortium to discuss how sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex rights are enacted within Indigenous Peoples’ rights

read more here – Four Indigenous heroes to look out for in 2016 – Amnesty International Australia