Young adult fiction and later-in-life queer awakenings

Young adult fiction and later-in-life queer awakenings

One Christmas break early in my queer re-emergence, I bought a stack of books to read, almost entirely queer young adult fiction.
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Archer Asks: Author Bobuq Sayed on border violence, queer diaspora and liberation

Archer Asks: Author Bobuq Sayed on border violence, queer diaspora and liberation

"I try to convey the diverse reality and complexity of what queer and trans refugees and migrants experience, and not just some kumbaya fantasy of everyone sharing resources and taking care of each other."...
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Archer Asks: Karma Dance’s Govind Pillai on sensual divinity and dance-worship

Archer Asks: Karma Dance’s Govind Pillai on sensual divinity and dance-worship

"I don’t think questioning tradition is disrespectful. I think refusing to question it is far more dangerous." Karma Dance's Govind Pillai chats to Dhriti Gandham.
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Why we need to recognise older people’s sexuality

Why we need to recognise older people’s sexuality

OU WOULDN'T BE ALONE in feeling frustrated, isolated, devalued and depressed if you were suddenly labelled “asexual” at your next birthday. Millions of older Australians feel the same way when they’re suddenly assumed to...
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Colour Tongues performance night highlights diverse artistry

Colour Tongues performance night highlights diverse artistry

The performance night Colour Tongues has its inaugural event on Friday, 14 October 2016, showcasing queer and trans artists of colour.
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Fat femmes to the front: Pushing back on false representation

Fat femmes to the front: Pushing back on false representation

The word fat is one steeped in stigma, but many fat people are reclaiming the word. Fat people are multivalent, sexy and fashionable, too.
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Chosen names, affect and identity: A rose by any other name

Chosen names, affect and identity: A rose by any other name

Chosen names offer a synthesis of literary and psychoanalytic analysis. When you choose a name, it is imbued with references, history and storytelling.
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Butch language, lineage and expansiveness: What is a butch?

Butch language, lineage and expansiveness: What is a butch?

The truth is, you can’t ask, "What makes someone butch?" without also asking what makes someone cis, trans or non-binary. The borders blur. The categories leak.
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On the G.O.D gang of Sydney’s 1990s, queer objects and archives

On the G.O.D gang of Sydney’s 1990s, queer objects and archives

Seeing objects from my life in a museum does not make me feel old. It makes me feel valued. Queer feminist history matters. My story matters.  
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Josefine Aspvik’s creations are bold, genderless and speaking their minds

Josefine Aspvik’s creations are bold, genderless and speaking their minds

My characters are genderless, stunning creatures. They are not afraid to talk about what really needs to be talked about.
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Learning that you’re autistic as an adult: Big feelings

Learning that you’re autistic as an adult: Big feelings

Being diagnosed as an autistic person was the best thing that has ever happened to me. It just didn’t feel like it at the time.
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Butch lineage: The difficulties of chronicling a subculture

Butch lineage: The difficulties of chronicling a subculture

Our patchwork is a poorly tattooed symbol of Venus on a forearm, a home-job buzz cut on a middle-aged dyke, torn posters of t.A.T.u., wardrobes full of colour-coordinated plaid and dog-chewed Calvin Klein underwear....
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Being Maghrebi in France: Xenophobia and lost family history

Being Maghrebi in France: Xenophobia and lost family history

If I don’t avoid everything French, it feels like I’m endorsing the country that causes my communities so much misery.
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Decolonial portraiture by Kali Spitzer: Resilience and resistance

Decolonial portraiture by Kali Spitzer: Resilience and resistance

Decolonising portraiture offers empowerment and authentic self-expression for BIPOC and queer individuals.
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Coming out as disabled

Coming out as disabled

I'm repeatedly coming out as disabled so those around me know why I’m behaving a little differently, or why I’m not helping with the chairs.
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Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance

Nightlife as a queer Egyptian-Australian: Learning how to dance

Meet Daniel Nour: Egyptian and Australian; loud and painfully awkward; conservative and very confused (especially about other boys).
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Impostor syndrome is a colonial, patriarchal construct: On mediocrity and white supremacy

Impostor syndrome is a colonial, patriarchal construct: On mediocrity and white supremacy

Capitalism, neoliberalism and the myth of meritocracy fuel impostor syndrome by insisting that individuals alone are responsible for our success or failure. This is a lie.
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A guide to Yarra River beats

A guide to Yarra River beats

A Guide to the Yarra River's Beats by Sam Wallman. Sam Wallman is a Melbourne-based cartoonist. He has published four books of drawings, in which he captures the ridiculous, the visceral and the personal...
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Trans rage, metal and music: What is the trans ‘sound’?

Trans rage, metal and music: What is the trans ‘sound’?

Uboa and Liturgy’s music acknowledges the trans rage of disempowerment, and how unleashing that rage can create a sense of self-affirmation.
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Shaving my head as a queer person: Gender and growing pains

Shaving my head as a queer person: Gender and growing pains

I think I knew deep down that if I shaved my head, it would be curtain call for Straight Girl.
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