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The fourth instalment of Queer & A airs this Halloween! Queer & A is an audience-driven LGBTQIA+ sexual health program aired live on Facebook. The show directly answers the hard-hitting questions from viewers, from safe sex to sexual fulfilment. Hosted by Youth Pride Network and The YEP Project, Queer & A has aired three episodes […]
Tags: gender diverse, HeadSpace, Kai Schweizer, lena van hale, magenta, queer & a, the yep project, transgender, YACWA, youth pride network
30 Oct 2018 /
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Tomorrow, the Youth Pride Network is hosting a free all-ages LGBTIQA+ music event featuring some of WA’s finest queer musicians. Headliners include Tashi Hall, Mirrors at The Arcade, and Foetus & Fossil. YPN’s Co-Founder Kai Schweizer spoke to OUTinPerth about the importance of such an event, “There are very few opportunities for young people to […]
Tags: foetus & fossil, Kai Schweizer, mirrors at the arcade, music, tashi hall, youth pride network, YPN
27 Jul 2018 |
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Do you have a passion for getting loud about issues that are important to you? A new advocacy group called the Youth Pride Network is launching in Perth to give LGBTQIA+ young people the opportunity to come together to shape a better Western Australia. The network, auspiced by the Youth Affairs Council of Western Australia […]
Tags: charlotte glance, Kai Schweizer, mason rothwell, YACWA, youth pride network, YPN
21 Feb 2018 |
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In my first grade class, my teacher asks us what we want to be when we grow up. I say ‘A BOY!’ and everybody laughs. I don’t say those words again for a decade. Growing up, I never hear the word transgender, only tomboy. With my ripped jeans and flat chest, I wear ‘tomboy’ like […]
Tags: Gender, Kai Schweizer, national youth week, trans day of visibility, transgender day of visibility, youth
31 Mar 2017 |
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The West Australian has printed a political cartoon poking fun at the transgender community and bathroom use. The image, created by long-serving cartoonist Alston, depicts a man telling a woman she is politically incorrect for using a urinal. The woman responds that “it’s LGBTI sanctioned and culturally inclusive… besides, I’m a man!” This is not […]
Tags: alston, bathroom, Kai Schweizer, political cartoon, The West Australian, transgender
17 Mar 2017 |
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Our guest on the latest episode of the So Loquacious podcast is transgender rights advocate Kai Schweizer. Kai joins Graeme Watson and Leigh to discuss the latest local and international news and events including two recent examples of where the media has not respected transgender people’s names. Plus we take a look at a major […]
Tags: audio, Bisexual, gay, Intersex, iTunes, Kai Schweizer, Lesbian, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, podcast So Loquacious, queer, soundcloud, trans*, transgedner
23 Dec 2016 |
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OUTspoken is returning for a second edition for this year’s Perth Poetry Festival, celebrating incredible local queer talent. Ten authors will be reading at the event, including PFF 2016 feature poets Alex Biddle and Jakob Boyd (pictured), Ben Marchant, Luka Buchanan, Kai Schweizer, Jesse Oliver and MC Scott-Patrick Mitchell. All are welcome to try their […]
Tags: alex biddle, jakob boyd, jesse oliver, Kai Schweizer, luka buchanan, Orlando, Perth Poetry Festival, Poetry, ppf, Pulse, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, weareorlando
11 Aug 2016 |
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Parents, teachers and students joined politicians today to call for the reinstatement of the Safe Schools program. The rally in Perth’s Murray Street mall attracted hundreds of supporters, while a counter protest from the Reclaim Australia movement played out nearby. Police stood between the two groups keeping the peace. Joey Cookman McAuley was the first […]
Tags: AusPol, bullying, education, Joey Cookman McCauley, Kai Schweizer, LGBT BUllying, Oskar Lim, Parents, PFLAG, Save Safe Schools, Scott Ludlum, teachers, The Greens
23 Apr 2016 |
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