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Queerstories

Join some of Australia"s best storytellers for an evening of queerstories; reflections on lives well lived and battles fought, pride, prejudice, love and humour. The LGBTQI community has been sharing stories for centuries, creating our own histories, disrupting and reinventing conventional ideas about narrative, family, love and community. There’s more to being queer than coming out and marriage. Listen to an unexpected tale or two from a diverse line up of stars and strangers, hosted by Maeve

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A Message from Maeve

Queerstories ·

2020/03/29

An update on Queerstories in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.With love, from MaeveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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195 Kristian Reyes - Mummy's Boy

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2020/03/05

Kristian shares an homage to his mother, his greatest ally as a young boy growing up in Western Sydney.Kristian Reyes is a queer, wog, socialist who grew up south of the Gong. For paid labour, he works in the anti-violence sector and has worked across Sydney in education and youth health for the past 13 years. During this time, he has also volunteered with Twenty10, the Gay and Lesbian Counselling Service as well as most recently, with Camp Out. Outside of these hours, Kristian seems to find himself

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194 Eloise Brooke - Fighting Nazis With Newsletters

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2020/03/03

Last year, Eloise rebooted one of the longest running transgender newsletters in Australia - Polare. She reflects on her expectations, what she learnt about her community's history, and whether you really can fight nazis with newsletters.Eloise Brook is a writer, advocate and academic. Her current researchprojects include; trans people in public health and developing models formedia representation of trans in the Media. Ella also works at the GenderCentre.Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling

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193 Cadance Bell - Small Talk

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2020/02/25

Three years before she transitioned genders, Cadance was a fat, depressed guy buying weed from bikie gangs and nursing a near killer blood clot. Then came a surprising chat.Cadance Bell is a writer and filmmaker. Her new documentary film The Rainbow Passage, a co-production with Screen Australia, airs next year on Channel Ten. The film, which Cady also directed, follows her and her wiggly bottomed fiance Amanda across a year in their gender transitions. Cady loves Pokemon Go, short walks to the

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192 Felicity Nicol - The Fight

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2020/02/20

Felicity considers the stories from her life she could share, but ultimately decides to make her slam poetry debut at Queerstories.Felicity Nicol is an award-winning director. Since graduating from NIDA, her career highlights include directing at The Sydney Opera House, creating a one-on-one performance for audiences in a moving car, directing a non-verbal performative memorial via clowning, beer and a slide-show, and co-directing Take My Hand, where she married strangers for ten minutes in

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191 Hajer - Speakeasies Ain't For Speaking Easy

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2020/02/18

Hajer grew up with fairytales and fantasies, but adullt life brings its own adventures, with speakeasy bars, class exchanges and one confused baby queer.Hajer is an emerging writer and performer. From short stories to essays to plays, her work flirts with themes of womanhood particularly within Arab diaspora identity formation. She is currently interrogating and experimenting with feminine and masculine archetypal traditions, within folklore, fairy-tale and fable style storytelling. She most

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190 Amy Middleton - Travel Scars

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2020/02/13

A story of love, loss, and lifelong wounds.Amy Middleton is a Melbourne-based journalist and founder of Archer Magazine. Amy has written and edited for dozens of magazines, produced radio for 3CR and Joy FM, and been nominated for Young Australian of the Year. She also plays AFL footy and collects interesting editions of Alice in Wonderland.Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates,

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189 AJ Lamarque - The 3-Day Gay

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2020/02/11

A morality tale, or perhaps a fairytale, about Sydney, self-love and manhunt.comAJ Lamarque is a Sydney-based Queer comedian who's performed across Sydney including a solo show, ‘Queerly Beloved', and appearances at a bunch of variety nights. With a mission to increase queer voices in the comedy scene AJ produces popular, queer-storytelling podcast Dungeons & Drag Kweens and the regular comedy night Kweens of Comedy on Oxford Street.Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed

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188 Fiona Wright - Disappearing

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2020/02/06

Fiona Wright ponders the reasons people never seem to know she's queer.Fiona Wright is a writer, editor and critic. Her book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction. Her poetry collections are Knuckled, which won the 2012 Dame Mary Gilmore Award, and Domestic Interior, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Prime Minister's Literary Award. Her new essay collection is The World Was Whole.Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling

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187 Alison Whittaker - Squattocrat Bodybuilder Ex-Wife

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2020/02/04

Alison Whittaker pens a queer Aboriginal love letter to Barnaby Joyce and long-standing Gunnedah haven, the Chip Inn.Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi writer and lawyer born and raised in Gunnedah. She is Senior Researcher at the Jumbunna Institute. From 2017-18, she was a Fulbright recipient at Harvard Law, where she was Dean's Scholar in Race, Gender and Criminal Law. Alison's latest book, BLAKWORK (Magabala 2018), was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the Prime Minister's

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186 Mystery Carnage - Logical and Biological

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2020/01/30

Mystery reflects on her family history, on the power of DNA and on her relationship with her mother.Mystery Carnage has recently made the smelter change and moved to Port Kembla with her partner Nellie and cat Queenie. After working at Apple for 5 years and as a graphic artist for 20 years before that, she now spends a fair amount of time gardening, doing woodwork or at ALDI and Bunnings. She was a singer with the 80s band the Stray Dags, is a 78er and has shown her artwork in shared and solo

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185 Kirsty Webeck - History Repeating

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2020/01/28

Comedian Kirsty Webeck remembers the heady days of high school.Kirsty Webeck entered the Australian comedy circuit in 2013 in an unconventional way. After doing a five minute set at the end of a comedy workshop she, having never heard of an open mic room, launched straight into writing and performing a full length show. She's a regular guest on ABC radio and in 2018, she was the featured comedian on an episode of The ABC's “Tonightly With Tom Ballard.” She also toured regional WA in 2019

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184 Nina Oyama - Ashlee's Party

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2020/01/23

A teenage Nina Oyama tries her hand at assimilating into white North Shore culture in Sydney. It doesn't work out.Nina Oyama is a stand up comic, writer, actress and worm girl who needs you and loves you and will hold you in her arms, upon request. She has performed all around Australia and has written for radio, stage and TV. She was a writer on Tonightly with Tom Ballard, appeared as Courtney on Utopia on ABC, and is also writer/director of comedy web series The Angus Project which was part of

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183 Patrick Lenton - Nemesis Culture

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2020/01/21

When you have a nemesis, you seek revenge via whatever means you can - according to Patrick Lenton, that's queer culture.Patrick Lenton is a writer and author based in Sydney. He is the Editor of Junkee, and has published a book of short stories called A Man Made Entirely of Bats and a book of essays called Uncle Hercules and Other Lies.Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden, with regular events around Australia. For Queerstories event dates,

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182 Roz Bellamy - Problematic Faves

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2020/01/16

Roz ponders that great modern conundrum: the problematic fave.Roz Bellamy is a freelance writer, researcher, and educator. Their work has appeared in Archer Magazine, The Big Issue, Daily Life, Huffington Post, Junkee, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, and SBS. They won the Stonnington Prize for Poetry in 2016 and their memoir writing was shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. You can read their writing atwww.rozbellamy.com.Queerstories is an LGBTQI+ storytelling night programmed by Maeve Marsden,

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181 Bastian Fox Phelan - Stove Photography

Queerstories ·

2020/01/14

Bastian is trying to understand why they keep taking photos of the stove. So, they decide to write about it.Bastian Fox Phelan is a writer, musician and zinemaker who lives in Newcastle on the land of the Awabakal people. They were shortlisted for the 2017 Scribe Nonfiction Prize, their writing has been published in The Lifted Brow, Runway, Scum Magazine and Tincture Journal, and they're currently working on a literary memoir signed to Giramonda Publishing. Bastian works with Museum of Contemporary

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180 Dr Senthorun Raj - Queer Career Goals

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2020/01/09

Dr Senthorun Raj discusses how his queer career as a glitter radiatingacademic lawyer began with childhood fantasies of being Xena and SailorMoon.Dr Senthorun Raj is a Lecturer in Law at Keele University and is passionate about glitter, pop culture, politics, and social justice. Sen's academic and activist work takes an intersectional approach to addressing the ways law deals with the lives of queer minorities. He is the chair of Black Gold Arts and serves on the board of Amnesty International UK

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179 Erin Riley - Daughters

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2020/01/07

Erin finds a great, great love. Soon after she decides to get married, she has dinner in Lakemba with her parents.By day, Erin Riley's a social worker - having spent most of the last decade working in community aged care. By night, Erin's a skivvy-wearing fanatic, a Scandinavian crime drama aficionado, Americana folk music-listener and a real kitchen top. A dedicated reader, wrestling fan, swimmer of laps and lover of food, in a former life Erin was an aspiring golfer, and once was an editor of

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178 Marcus Whale - Love In The Time of MSN Messenger

Queerstories ·

2019/12/26

Musician Marcus Whale shares a prepubescent story of online romance, distance and self-discovery.Marcus Whale is a musician and performer working on Gadigal land. As a performer, he is a member of duo Collarbones and trio BV, as well as work under his own name, releasing an album "Inland Sea" in June 2016. Primarily forming an electronic world around his singing, the songs across these projects play out dramas of desire and projection while disfiguring forms of pop, club and contemporary classical

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177 Paul van Reyk - How to Make a Sri Lankan...

Queerstories ·

2019/12/19

A multicultural recipe for multicultural times, this piece was inspired by Paul's interviews for My Mother's Kitchen, a Queerstories collaboration with Google's Creative Labs: mymotherskitchen.com.auPaul van Reyk was born in Sri Lanka in 1952, migrating to Australia with his family in 1962. He came out publicly in 1978, and has spent the subsequent four decades as an activist. He has been a regular media commentator over that time, writing on gay and HIV/AIDS history, racism in the gay community and

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