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Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation
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Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation

Two trans women share a lively discussion around culture, sex work, the AIDS crisis, gender and intersex identity.
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Queer-affirming death spaces: The bones of my death work
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Queer-affirming death spaces: The bones of my death work

Advocating for queer-affirming death spaces – and creative ways of navigating grief – have empowered this author since leaving a...
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Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work
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Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work

As a trans Filipino sex worker, I’ve been using my gloryhole to create art with my clients, lovers and fellow...
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Pine Gap to Gaza: Surveillance from stolen Arrernte lands
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Pine Gap to Gaza: Surveillance from stolen Arrernte lands

Pine Gap spy base sits on stolen Arrernte lands, fuelling the forgotten war machine of Australia.
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HIV, ageing and visibility: Becoming gorgeous
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HIV, ageing and visibility: Becoming gorgeous

I figured I had two years left: one in reasonable health, then one in increasingly terrible health, ending in a...
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Disability justice and community care
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Disability justice and community care

I know what it’s like to be seen in my entirety. I've experienced disability justice in action, which is to...
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Kink, pain and mental health: Recovery through submission
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Kink, pain and mental health: Recovery through submission

It began as a curiosity – to explore gender and masculinity at close range, and frankly to have some really...
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A Q&A with Judith Butler: Gender fear, fascism and TERFs
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A Q&A with Judith Butler: Gender fear, fascism and TERFs

We should be allied against a right-wing that seeks to undermine feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist movements, to destroy unions and...
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Neuroqueer(ing) pleasure: Autism, sensation and kinship
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Neuroqueer(ing) pleasure: Autism, sensation and kinship

I also think that autistic pleasure is queer, in and of itself. It’s queer in its non-normativity, in its subversiveness,...
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Disability, pleasure and ageing: The pleasure principle
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Disability, pleasure and ageing: The pleasure principle

Disabled pleasure knows no bounds, bringing an intimacy that goes beyond romantic love, genitals or penetrative sex.
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Grief, pleasure and maternal love: Portrait of a mother on fire
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Grief, pleasure and maternal love: Portrait of a mother on fire

I have not known miscarriage or baby loss. But this image, of a mother waking up to exile from her...
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Police brutality and bigotry as a young Aboriginal person: I am not the problem
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Police brutality and bigotry as a young Aboriginal person: I am not the problem

If you are an Aboriginal child whose parents have been criminalised, police officers see you as a criminal, too.
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Aboriginal women and the revolving door of the prison system
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Aboriginal women and the revolving door of the prison system

It’s like we are refugees in our own country, on our own land. Hunted by coppers and racists alike, we...
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Incarceration, violence and tenderness: ‘Pariah’ by Zarita Zevallos
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Incarceration, violence and tenderness: ‘Pariah’ by Zarita Zevallos

Very often, I find that as Black people, we are not allowed to outwardly express our anger and pain. It...
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Invisibility in the queer and disabled communities: Always the ally
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Invisibility in the queer and disabled communities: Always the ally

My disability and my queerness are both invisible to the naked eye, too murky to be easily defined – so...
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Fucking with cancer: Sex work, libido and chemotherapy
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Fucking with cancer: Sex work, libido and chemotherapy

With little energy but plenty of desire during cancer treatment, this author found sex had to be left to the...
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Trans people in prison: The need for liberation and community care
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Trans people in prison: The need for liberation and community care

When you’re a trans person who is criminalised, you are minority in a minority. Unfortunately, we end up in prison...
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Gender, madness and psychiatric care: Colour me a mad woman
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Gender, madness and psychiatric care: Colour me a mad woman

How can the mind transcend madness when it’s confined and magnified within these walls?
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How to masturbate in Campbelltown
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How to masturbate in Campbelltown

Love thy holy trinity: in the name of the clitoris, the vagina and the holy vulva – amen… And that’s how...
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Queerness, photography and sensuality: A Q&A with Wondra
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Queerness, photography and sensuality: A Q&A with Wondra

It’s important to me that people feel the queer love and joy in my work. It’s important that people are...
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