The start of a new year can be a time for celebration a time for reflection and a not-so-joyous time for those of us who aren’t yet comfortable with who, what or where we are in our lives at this current moment. Maybe you even feel a combination of all these three. For me, there […]
Kirsty Webeck is a Melbourne-based stand-up comedian whose comedy and gift for storytelling is winning hearts and minds around the country. Despite a hectic schedule of performing at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, The Lesbian Comedy Gala, hosting The GLORIAs, and appearing on ABC’s Tonightly With Tom Ballard – Kirsty is taking time to […]
Recently, I was fortunate enough to attend the recent 2nd Annual Australian Ally Conference at Curtin University, and to facilitate a workshop about Lateral Hostility within the LGBTIQ+ community. Each conference session that I attended was totally different from the last, and presented a perspective that was specific to the lenses and experiences of that […]
Lately I seem to be surrounded by people who identify as Allies to the LGBTIQ+ community. I feel like we generally have a clear and concise idea of what we expect from these Allies and (rightly so) we constantly demand for them to be held up to our benchmarks. We have manuals and trainings and […]
May 17th each year marks International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia: IDAHOBIT (Encompassing all LGBTIQ+ bodies, genders, relationships, sexualities, attractions, identities and experiences). Originally known as the International Day Against Homophobia, IDAHOBIT was established to commemorate the decision to remove homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organisation in 1990. […]
“…you can’t plan out or perfectly schedule the big moments in your life. They just happen to you when they happen, sometimes because you made them happen and sometimes because you couldn’t stop them from happening.” Caitlin Rush The last year or so has definitively been a year of personal milestones for me – being the […]
*Advance apology for binary gendered quote “I know something interesting about lobsters. You don’t have to put a lid on the pot when you cook female* lobsters, does anybody know why? …female lobsters, you don’t have to put a lid on the pot because once they realize they’re in a pot of boiling water they […]
7sins&7virtues | Connections Nightclub/Rigby’s Bar | til Feb 5 | ★ ★ ★ Scarlet Bell are a Murdoch University based student burlesque troupe and my very first Fringe Show for 2018. MC- Foxxxxy Curves had somewhat of an uphill battle to get the audience revved up. Maybe it was the early timeslot, maybe Fringe Fever hadn’t […]
Ah, the holidays. For some, Christmas and New Year is about religious or spiritual observance, for others it’s a celebration of the year that has passed and a chance to spend time with loved ones, and for others again it is a time of disconnection and challenges. For the rest – lets be honest – […]
The results of marriage equality survey will be announced next Wednesday November 15th approximately 7am WA time, so it is a great time to talk about all little about the things that LGBTIQ+ people and their allies can do when the results are announced and how to stay resilient over the upcoming weeks and months. […]
