“I’d like to tell you about when we used to play Cowboys and Indians.”
Rusty Nannup is perched on a chair in her living room, looking through a pile of photographs chronicling 60 years of life.
A Yamatji Noongar trans woman, she grew up in the small Western Australian town of Cue. She now lives in an apartment in Sydney's inner-west.
“My cousin used to steal the bullets from our uncle, we’d light a fire and he’d throw in the bullets,” she tells SBS News with a wry smile.
“We’d have all these kids running around playing dead and all these live bullets flying around … we used to get flogged for that.”