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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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11:28

286 Huey Acuna - Where Did I Come From?

Queerstories ·

2022/05/30

After leaving Chile for Australia as a child, Huey has persistent questions about where he comes from, til a family secret is revealed that changes everything.Huey Acuna aka Ru Bella came to Australia from Chile in 1975 as a refugee with his family of 6. Huey has been performing as a Drag Queen for the past 15 years, and has been performing more broadly since 1988 including stage, TV and events, as well as teaching singing and dancing.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project

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12:40

285 Jex Lopez - From Surviving To Thriving

Queerstories ·

2022/05/23

Jex shares a story about healing from trauma through therapy and music while working as a children's performer in regional NSW.Jex Lopez is mostly known amongst queers as a singer songwriting pianist. A vaudevillian cabaret noir artist, her music and style is intrinsically tied to her identity as a queer Latina Meztiça with Portuguese Indian heritage. Jex creates unconventional and elaborate costumes and projections to accompany her unique sound stories. She released her irreverent debut album

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9:52

284 Peter Lehner - Spirit Encounters

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2022/05/16

Through their encounters with ghosts - sexual, familial, always magical - Peter questions what is real, and finds such encounters are more common than you'd think.Peter Lehner lives in the rainbow region and travels to connect with communities. Their many years of experience includes acting, directing and production of short films, TV, theatre and cabaret. Best known for their work with choirs and singing, the Universal Peace Federation, a worldwide, non-profit organization founded to advance the

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283 Travis Larcombe - The Good Samaritan of Hocking...

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2022/05/09

Soon after moving to Naarm, Travis moves into a sharehouse in Footscray, finding a sense of belonging that inspires him to research his local family history.Travis Larcombe is a local queer writer and proud resident of Tuggeranong. They have been writing funny, sad and inspiring stories since they were old enough to pick up a crayon. Their work has previously been published in SBS Voices, The Chaser, and Perspektif magazine.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve

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282 Yenn Purkiss - From Prison to Public Service

Queerstories ·

2022/05/02

Yenn shares a story about contending with their past.Yenn Purkiss is an autistic and non-binary author, advocate, public speaker and community leader. They also have a diagnosis of schizophrenia.They are the author of nine published books on elements of autism and blog regularly. Yenn is a public speaker of almost 20 years’ experience and has presented at a range of events including for TEDx Canberra in 2013. Yenn facilitates an autism support group which has been running since 2011. They have a

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281 Joo-In Chew - Ice Cream at The Crem

Queerstories ·

2022/04/25

When Joo-Inn and her brother meet Liz from the crematorium their grief turns to delirium as they try to plan their father's funeral.Joo-Inn Chew is a writer and doctor working in general practice and refugee health. She has had short stories, memoir and poetry published in various anthologies, most recently 'Growing Up Queer in Australia' and 'These Strange Outcrops: Writing and Art from Canberra'. She lives in Canberra with her partner and two children.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+

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280 Dale Sheridan - You Can't Fight Nature

Queerstories ·

2022/04/18

Dale shares a story about facing her fears relating to transition during a trip to Nepal.Dale Sheridan is a writer, transgender advocate and lawyer. Her writing on transgender and broader LGBTIQ+ issues has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Canberra Times, Stuff.co.nz and snowsbest.com. She has also appeared on ABC Radio and at various public speaking engagements to share aspects of her lived experience as a woman with a transgender history.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+

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278 Krissy Kneen - The Day I Danced Burlesque

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2022/01/24

Feeling disconnected from her body, Krissy signs up for a burlesque class.Krissy Kneen is the author of the bestselling memoir Affection;the novels Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine; andthe Thomas Shapcott Award–winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. Her novelAn Uncertain Grace wasshortlisted for the Stella Prize, the Norma K Hemming Award and the Aurealis awards, whileWinteringwas longlisted for the Colin Roderick Award and shortlisted

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8:21

277 Rebecca Starford - The Story of the Seven Cats

Queerstories ·

2022/01/17

Rebecca leans in to the trope of lesbians and cats, adopting not one but seven to appease her animal loving wife.Rebecca Starford is the author Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School and novel The Imitator. She is the Co-founder and Publishing Director of Kill Your Darlings magazine and a former editor at Text Publishing and Affirm Press. Bad Behaviour is currently in development with Matchbox Pictures for adaptation into a TV series. Rebecca recently completed a PhD at the

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12:23

276 Alistair Baldwin - Cult

Queerstories ·

2022/01/10

Alistair briefly dates a man who tries multiple times to convert him to his cult.Alistair Baldwin is a writer, comedian, thought leader and sometimes blonde. He has written for The Weekly, Hard Quiz, Get Krack!n and At Home Alone Together. He is a member of experimental comedy duo Nemeses with Vidya Rajan. He has been published in Metro, Archer, The Guardian and ACMI Ideas– and is a contributor to Growing Up Disabled In Australia.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by

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8:37

275 Kaya Wilson - Transition in Translation

Queerstories ·

2022/01/03

Kaya goes hiking with his mother in the Himalayas, an extract from his memoir As Beautiful As Any Other: a memoir of my body, published by Pan McMillan in 2021.Kaya Wilson is a writer and tsunami scientist whose work has been published widely. In 2019, Kaya was the recipient of the Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship where he completed his first book As Beautiful as Any Other: A memoir of my body, published by Pan Macmillan.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve

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274 Hayden Moon - Becoming A 'Senior Man'

Queerstories ·

2021/12/27

Hayden shares his experience being the first transgender person to compete in Irish Dancing competitions in so-called "Australia".Hayden Moon is an out and proud 26 year old Queer, legally blind, transmasculine person. He is a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, a Pinnacle Foundation Scholar and a competitive Irish dancer. In any spare time he can find, he advocates for the LGBTQIA+, disabled and First Nations communities through his roles in various

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11:31

273 Joe Levitt - Love You, I Do

Queerstories ·

2021/12/20

Joe shares a moving story of family, love, dance and Parkinson's Disease.Joe Levitt moved to Australia from America in 1996 at the age of 36. He recently retired from work in clinical trials, but has also been a dance instructor, flight attendant, registered nurse, pharmaceutical rep, and bartender. When not contemplating what to be when he grows up, he can be found biking, swimming, at the dog park, or dancing with his husband.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by

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12:52

272 Fiona Kelly McGregor - Of Porn, Parties and the...

Queerstories ·

2021/12/13

In the mid-90s, balancing the hedonism of being embedded in the queer community with the formalities of her growing profile as a writer, Fiona takes a memorable trip to Queensland.Fiona Kelly McGregorhas published seven books, most recently the essay collectionBuried not dead.Her novelIndelible Inkwon theAgeBook of the Year.Her other books include thephotoessayA Novel Idea,travel memoirStrange Museums,short story collectionSuck My Toes/Dirt, which won the Steele Rudd Award, and the underground

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271 Tamara Natt-Fawcett - Masturbating For Jesus

Queerstories ·

2021/12/06

A brief career as some sort of cult leader lands a young Tamara in trouble after she preaches self-discovery from the top of the school slippery dip.Tamara Natt (she/her) is a queerpoet, essayist and playwright living with her wife and the local bird gangs on the semi-rural Australian coastline. Spanning her beatpoetryplayALPHA(Edinburgh Fringe Festival) toA Letter to Everyone I Have Ever Met,an online project that interrogates the significance of first impressions, her work is deeply personal,

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270 Brendan Hancock - At The Table

Queerstories ·

2021/11/29

A queer reboot of the Arthurian table of legend, but this time with lesbians, drag queens and a ghost.Brendan Hancock is a Sydney based comedian who is well-known on the scene. You've heard him on FBi radio, seen him host the rave-reviewed Two Queers Walk Into a Bar at Giant Dwarf Theatre, and as the resident MC of Darlo Underground at Darlinghurst Theatre. Not one to let 2020 get him down, he also co-produced the Two Queers Festival, Australia’s first queer comedy festival! Already a crowd fave and

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10:47

268 Rosie Piper - I Like You

Queerstories ·

2021/11/15

Rosie doesn't have great luck with showing vulnerability in the world of romance. Here are but a few embarrassing calamities from a life well (read: poorly) lived.Rosie Piperis Australia’s premier transgender lesbian comedian*. “A long-running favourite of Sydney’s comedy scene, you might’ve seen Rosie perform her stand-up at theSydney Opera House, Enmore Theatre,onTonightly, atSplendour in the Grassor just at gigs all around the country, supporting the likes ofWil AndersonandZoe Coombs Marr. More

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267 Frances Lockie - A Token

Queerstories ·

2021/11/08

Frances shares a story of migration, Mills and Boon, and a daughter finally recognising her mother.By day, Frances Lockie is a public servant turned corporate sellout clinging desperately to the vestiges of her soul by working on human services projects. By night, she is a mouthy dork who has strong opinions about pro wrestling, One Direction, and sex playlists. Her first crush was Joey McIntyre from New Kids on the Block.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve

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266 Imogen Kelly - Close To The Bone

Queerstories ·

2021/11/01

Imogen reflects on bodies, history, gender and connection, remembering her mother, an ex-partner and her childhood.Imogen Kelly is a performance artist, writer, director and producer. Hailing from the queer underground, Imogen is renowned as Australia’s Queen of Burlesque and was officially crowned World Queen of Burlesque in 2012 (Burlesque Hall of Fame, Las Vegas).  A La Clique/ La Soiree veteran and creator of award winning burlesque theatre shows, Imogen has performed in The Sydney Opera House,

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265 Dan Murphy - The Smoking Section

Queerstories ·

2021/10/25

Dan shares a story about his relationship to smoking, and its connection to family, community and his sense of self.Dan Murphy is a DJ and filmmaker, and is not to be confused with the liquor shop, although they both are full of cheap booze. He's been the opening DJ for Cher, Kylie and Dannii Minogue, created community videos for marriage equality, GetUp! and Mardi Gras, and was a regular columnist for QX Magazine and Same Same.Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by

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