Wikipedia:Nayuka Gorrie

Nayuka Gorrie is a transgender actor, writer and Indigenous rights activist.

Background
Gorrie identifies as Kurnai (Gunai), Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta. Their mother is writer Veronica Gorrie, and their grandfather is Aboriginal liaison officer and child protection worker John Gorrie.

Their work has been described as exploring "black, queer and feminist politics," satire, and blerd ("black plus nerd") culture.

In 2018, they were named as a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter recipient.

Television
In 2018, Gorrie wrote and performed in Season Three of ABC sketch comedy series Black Comedy; and has co-written episodes of Get Krack!n.

Gorrie is a co-writer of five-part children’s television series Thalu, which has been described as "as much an action-packed adventure as it is a celebration of the Pilbara region and its Indigenous culture".

Q&A controversy
In November 2019 Gorrie appeared on an episode of the ABC TV show Q&A that was aired in conjunction with Broadside Feminist Ideas Festival, along with Mona Eltahawy, Jess Hill, Ashton Applewhite, and Hana Assafiri. Gorrie called for the police to be abolished, stating the police force is "there to be violent, it is patriarchal, it is overwhelmingly white". Gorrie subsequently observed "I wonder what our kind of tipping point in Australia's going to be when people will start burning stuff? I look forward to it", and said that violence was an appropriate response to colonization. Later in the episode Gorrie mentioned that they were afraid when they found out they were pregnant with twins, saying, "I was scared, what if I raised a cis straight man, what am I going to do?"

The episode was later controversially pulled from steaming service iView after receiving a number of complaints about the episode. The ABC launched an investigation into whether its editorial standards were breached, and later announced "ABC management's decision to remove the episode from iView and cancel planned repeat broadcasts was sufficient action to resolve those complaints".

Writing
Gorrie is a freelance writer for The Guardian Australia, and has written for NITV, VICE, Junkee, the Saturday Paper, the Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings and Archer Magazine. Their writing has covered topics such as the need for a treaty rather than constitutional recognition of Indigenous people in Australia; a critique of white feminism; racism within the criminal justice system and in society,  and the Don't Kill Live Music protest

They contributed to the anthology Growing up Queer in Australia, Queerstories and Going Postal: More than Yes or No. Gorrie is finalising a book of essays exploring "contemporary colonialism".

Gorrie has appeared at the Creative State Summit in 2019, Broadside Feminist Ideas Festival in 2019, the Emerging Writer's Festival in 2019. and the Melbourne Writer's Festival in August 2020.