Ascension Magazine

14/02/2023

Gigorou Book Launches

I wanted to share the upcoming release of my first book Gigorou: It’s time to reclaim beauty. First Nations wisdom & womanhood. I’d love to invite you, family & friends to my book launches. I look forward to celebrating and diving into meaningful conversations with you.

If you’re unable to make the launches you can pre-order Gigorou here http://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/6bYKq3

Avid Reader (Brisbane) Tues, 28 February 6:00pm
https://avidreader.com.au/pages/6894-SashaKutabahSarago-Gigorou

Better Read Than Dead (Newtown) Thurs, 2 March 6:30pm
https://www.betterreadevents.com/events/gigorou-lauch-with-sasha-kutabah-sarago

Marrickville Library (Marrickville) Mon, 20 March
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/speaker-series-gigorou-with-sasha-kutabah-sarago-tickets-516366745837

Melbourne (TBC)

22/06/2022

Blakfella Gems 💎 via 🖤💛❤️

21/06/2022

HELP SUPPORT A YOUNG BLAK ENTREPRENEUR

Hi everyone- my daughter Alyce (15), started a bead jewellery making business over 12 months ago and in the February 2022 floods we lost a majority of her stock. Her business is called Alyce T designs on FB she’s an inspiring young Indigenous entrepreneur but since the floods she has temporarily closed so that we can restock. Unfortunately it’s been a longer process than we would have liked to help her restart and so we are asking for your assistance.

She’s hard working and motivated and deserves a hand to help her restart if you can help a little or a lot we truly appreciate it. Louise & Alyce Togo.

Don't forget NAIDOC is just around the corner. A great time to stock up & support a young Blak business.

Hi everyone- my daughter Alyce (15), started a bead jewellery making business over 12 months ago and in th… Louise Togo needs your support for Alyce T Designs

20/06/2022

Beyoncé 👸🏽 July 2022 🪐

16/06/2022

Aboriginal Girl Magic 🖤💛❤️I’m so proud of you Bub 🙌🏾 out here branding 🏎 with your artwork REPOST 👸🏽Kiewa Austin Rioli • .art 🔥I’m still in shock that this is my design on the Coca Cola 2022 super car! It’s insane and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to design this! I am so excited to see it on the track this weekend at the Supercars event!

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28/04/2022

Aboriginal Girl Magic 👸🏽 REPOST • For our upcoming May issue, four strong Indigenous women, models and creatives Cindy Rostron, Magnolia Maymuru, Charlee Fraser, alongside trailblazer Elaine George, come together with , in collaboration with .Nations.Fashion.Design, in a celebration of First Nations talent and intergenerational change, each showcasing First Nations designers as Indigenous creativity takes its place among fashion’s best. Our May issue—will also feature conversations with each cover star, and Gunai writer .Saunders—will hit newsstands on Monday, May 2.

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Photography by , styling by , hair by , make-up by , manicure by , movement by , casting by , production by , , words by .Saunders

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22/04/2022

😍 Aboriginal Girl Magic Alert • 👸🏽 for 🖤💛❤️

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20/04/2022

Always 🙄 💫 via Mahdi Woodard 🌟

11/04/2022

Miranda & Grace 😍 Grace Birri-Pa Purnarrika Colley. Birri-Pa is Larrakia for Butterfly, Purnarrika is Tiwi for Water Lily 🖤💛❤️ for 😍

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17/03/2022

Bad MF🔥God complex
Motivate your 🍑ass 📞call me Malcolm X🙅🏽‍♀️

17/03/2022

Did I stutter? 😏🖤💛❤️ Good Ways Quotes via

09/03/2022

A special thank you to for inviting me to share my passion for First Nations women & Country this IWD. To feel included in a space that I’ve often felt alienated from through my words and perspective.

Ya’ll really did that!! 🙌🏾❤️I had so much fun writing & shooting your new range.

Ummm, the fit is amazing😍I feel like a Lululemon Superheroine – Khaki Queen!! 👸🏽👩🏽‍🎤

To check out my article Country Is 📝visit the link in my bio. And head over to to peep their new 🔥🔥🔥product range 🏃🏾‍♀️

08/03/2022

Repost 👸🏽 Aboriginal Girl Magic Alert • 🖤💛❤️ Congratulations to our Miss NAIDOC Perth program founder, director, facilitator and mentor, Shannon McGuire.

Shannon was inducted into the WA Women’s Hall of Fame for all her work into the Miss NAIDOC Perth program designed for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the community.

The rest of the team at MNP are so proud of you and all you have accomplished not only within the program, but also outside through your career and personal achievements.

This Noongar yorga, works tirelessly every year to deliver something special for our young women in the community and we are so glad you have received this recognition for this. A strong leader we all admire and appreciate.

Go Queen 👸🏾 Too Deadly Sis you are so inspiring 😘

08/03/2022

A special thank you to lululemon Australia and New Zealand for inviting me to share my passion for First Nations women & Country this IWD. To feel included in a space that I’ve often felt alienated from through my words and perspective. Here’s to but also .

https://www.lululemon.com.au/en-au/c/community/stories/country-is

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01/03/2022

REPOST 🖤💛❤️ • This International Women’s Day (Tuesday 8th March), we invite you to listen to and celebrate First Nation’s women’s voices - by watching our documentary animation, Yajilarra nhingi, mindija warrma (from dreams, let's make it reality). Share it with your workplace, school, community groups & broader networks.




LINK: https://wiyiyaniuthangani.humanrights.gov.au/report/hear-women-s-voices

19/01/2022

Aboriginal Girl Magic Alert 👸🏽Repost 👠

WINYARR COLLECTION OUT NOW! Designed by Alkina Edwards 🖤❤️💛

Through our partnership with Culture is Life we have had the unique opportunity to collaborate with a young First Nations artist, Alkina Edwards, whose art is inspired by the stories passed down from her family, community and Country. Alkina has proud matriarchal connections to Yorta Yorta, Wemba Wemba, Mutthi Mutthi and Wiradjuri tribes. Alkina draws on the history and experiences of her people to create artwork that represents female empowerment and strength.

Winyarr means ‘Aboriginal woman/women’ in Yorta Yorta Language. The artwork in the Winyarr Collection depicts a group of women along the sacred Dungala (Murray River), linking arms to represent the Aborginal women that have been here for thousands of years.

First Nations Models : Madi Walker, Tasie Lovett Walker, Medika Bonney.

12/01/2022

😍 Aboriginal Girl Magic Alert • Cindy Rostron for Vogue Australia 🖤💛❤️ 📸 💫

Country, culture and language. You better get your copy of Vogue 👸🏽

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13/12/2021

I’m super proud to be an Ambassador for NITV’s Reimagine Australia campaign. Hopefully, we’ve planted the seeds.

The campaign asks audiences to rethink our identity as a nation and work towards a future fuelled by the vibrancy of cultures in Australia, underpinned by 60-thousand years of traditional, resilience and strength of First Nations people.

Check out the trailer here: https://bit.ly/3tZ0WYj

13/12/2021

I’m super proud to be an Ambassador for NITV Reimagine Australia campaign. Hopefully, we’ve planted the seeds.

The campaign asks audiences to rethink our identity as a nation and work towards a future fuelled by the vibrancy of cultures in Australia, underpinned by 60-thousand years of traditional, resilience and strength of First Nations people.

Check out the trailer here: https://bit.ly/3tZ0WYj

Celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories.

02/12/2021

Aboriginal Girl Magic Alert 😍 When you see the next generation shining on Guugu Yimithirr/Yimidhirr Country 🩰 Watch our lil jarjums perform link in IG story 🥰 📸 Hope Vale Campus via FB: Leearna Burke 🖤💛❤️

26/11/2021

REPOST 😍 Yarrabah Wearable Arts Project (YWAP) is a collaboration with the Yarrabah Art Centre , Djunngaal Elders and Francoise Lane of Indj Design. This unique collection was showcased via CIAF’s digital Fashion Performance - Of Spirit & Story: Sacred Sites & Places of Significance.
‘Flora & Fauna Nomore’ is in response to the CIAF theme of ‘SACRED’. The story of seclusion, experienced firsthand, provided a powerful narrative about the 1967 Referendum specifically the 27th of May when Australians overwhelmingly voted YES to amend the Constitution AND allow the Commonwealth to make laws for Aboriginal people and include them in the census. The collection is phase 2, and comes off the back of the CIAF 2019 collection around the ‘Punishment Dress’.
‘Flora & Fauna Nomore’ started off the right way with a blessing on Country around a fire. We then used charcoal from the fire to draw our designs. In reference to the 1967 Referendum, Artists and Elders and family conducted research in the Menmuny Museum of dresses worn around that period.

Check out the collection online 🖤💛❤️💙💚

📸 by Blue Click Photography

09/11/2021

Aboriginal Girl Magic 😍• Introducing Deadly Sista & her amazing talents👸🏽

REPOST ❤️Most of you don't know that I have grown up in a family on my mums side with a lot of various hearing impairments
I have signed since I could speak as that was the only language I could use with certain family members to communicate. Sign feels like a dance itself🥰 it's wonderfully expressive 🤟🏽
So I would love to share that expression and offer this for other artist 🥰 It could be for some musicians ❤️workshops💛wanting to have staff in your workplace learn basic sign to interact with customers and more so if this interests you I would love to hear from you send me a Direct Message and we'll have a yarn 🥰

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13/10/2021

😍“I adore this book” just as much as Tony Birch does.

‘Satirical, sensitive and subversive, Jazz Money is a poet to watch.’ Omar Sakr.

Indeed she is! Jazz Money blew me away when I caught her spoken word performance If Write A Poem on NITV earlier this year. Her delicate words weave a basket – not only for her but for us.

How To Make A Basket is Money’s first book – a collection of poems that compels you to surrender. Be present and feel the suppressed emotions; perhaps you were too scared, too weak to acknowledge. Jazz is kind, raw and generous – when she offers her basket for you to carry what you’ve unearthed so it can sit safely above the surface.

I caught myself re-reading – retracing each line to find where I began and where I was going. Jazz’s poetry reminds me love still exists even if my heart is fragmented. She traverses the political landmines (living Blak) and reclaims language so that we know the taste of revival when it is spoken.

How To Make A Basket is a series of love letters, a declaration, you are – we are, still here.

You can purchase How To Make A Basket from UQP 📚 Cover Art .mlee 🖤💛❤️

11/10/2021

Pay 👏🏾Me 👏🏾What 👏🏾I'm 👏🏾Worth 💵Stop seeking Blak knowledge, consultation, skills, labour & talent for free, pro-bono, exposure & grossly below their rate. You know what I can bless you with. You know what I bring to the table👸🏽That's why you're here. It needs to STOP❗️Not on my time, or dime💰You better show me the money 💸 you stingy 🤬

04/10/2021

This month I finished Larissa Behrendts' After Story – the perfect remedy when optimism during lockdown begins to wane.

After Story is a gem, you can't put down, reaching the last chapter, I got literary anxiety akin to binging a rare find on Netflix. Goodbye so soon?

Larissa wonderfully crafts classic English literature and Aboriginal storytelling through a fragile mother and daughter relationship. Behrendt introduces us to Indigenous lawyer Jasmine who invites her mother Della on a literary tour to mend their past.

But even abroad, old wounds are opened when a young child goes missing – a tragedy they know all too well, which is why you're left rooting for Della and Jasmine to find their way to forgiveness. Jazz's childhood escapism via books reminded me of the solace it brought me. And when I fell in love with Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventure in Wonderland as a girl. The most endearing parts are Aunty Elaine's stories – the wisdom carried with you no matter where you go.

After Story inspired me to keep speaking with my Elders to capture Our Stories and a yearning to ring mum for that yarn, I didn't know I needed.

You can purchase After Story from 📖🖤💛❤️

25/08/2021

I AM LORE ✊🏾That’s all you need to know 🔥 Sasha Kutabah Sarago 🖤💛❤️