Welcome to new resident organisation, Pride Centre café and social enterprise ‘The Little Social’, which opened on Monday 12 December! Trading Monday to Friday, 8am to 2pm. Pride Centre are partnering with independent non-profit organisation Youth Projects to bring ‘The Little Social’ to the Pride Centre, as a warm and inviting space where LGBTIQ+ communities can connect. The café will provide training and work opportunities for young people experiencing social, educational and employment disengagement. “The Little Social …
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Ahead of Saturday 3rd December’s International Day of People with Disability, Australian Research Centre in Sex Health and Society (ARCSHS) together with the Living with Disability Research Centre, have released of a new report for the Disability Royal Commission, exploring experiences and issues of concern for LGBTQA+ people with disability. You can find the report and accompanying resources here:LGBTQA+ people with disability report website
On now at the Warnambool Art Gallery until March next year, Self-Creation explores drag and ideas of gender presentation through the medium of DIY, low-budget and self-produced music videos. The show is curated by Aaron Bradbrook and Daniel Newell and features the work of CHRISTEENE (USA); Vaginal Davis (USA/DEU); The Huxleys (AUS); Max Lawrence (AUS), and Dyan Tai (MYS/AUS). Find out more about Self-Creation here…
Join A Gender Agenda for an autonomous swimming afternoon at Canberra Olympic Pool for transgender, gender diverse, and intersex people and our allies! When and where: Date and timeSat., 17 December 2022, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm AEDT LocationCanberra Olympic Pool 36 Constitution Avenue Canberra, ACT 2601 To find out more visit the event page HERE.
Sally from Autostraddle lives in the UK. Her work has been featured in a Korean magazine about queer people and their pets, and a book about haunted prisons. Today I am sharing an article Sally wrote about queer books databases to make it easy to search for your next favourite LGBTQ+ read. Continue on to the article in Autostraddle to find out more.
When: Saturday, 3 December 2022 from 17:30-21:00 Where: Bluestone Church Arts Space – 8a Hyde St, Footscray Join and celebrate not one but two new collections of trans* and gender-diverse writing, created by local publisher Thousand Threads Press. Whether you’re a word nerd or just want to celebrate TGD awesomeness, this event is for you! Come early to hang, snack and check out the books and leave before the performance starts OR you can come …
TGV has established a fund to assist trans and gender diverse people experiencing financial hardship to cover the costs of updating their name and sex record on their Victorian Birth Certificate. They offer both reimbursement and upfront payment assistance. Find out more about the ID change support fund here…
Trans Awareness Week is held from 13-19 November, followed by Trans Day of Remembrance on the 20th Nov. It is a time to celebrate trans and gender diverse pride as well as raise awareness of the issues faced by the community. Minus18 have put together a free digital tool kit for Trans Awareness Week which you can download here… Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance that honours the memory of the trans …