Advocacy and Activism Archives

Jul
20
2023

Phil Carswell – Community Living Legend

Advocacy and Activism, Government & Organizations, HIV, Sex & Sexuality, Society & Culture, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC), VAC Legacy Series

Phil Carswell OAM is a longstanding community advocate. Forged in the fires of gay and lesbian liberation, Phil was the ...

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Jul
14
2023

Jamie Gardiner – Community Living Legend

Advocacy and Activism, Community Living Legend, Government & Organizations, Health, HIV, Legal, Policy, Sex & Sexuality, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC), VAC Legacy Series

One of the founding members of the Victorian AIDS Action Committee (now Thorne Harbour Health) and longstanding human rights activist, ...

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Jul
13
2023

Dennis Altman – Community Living Legend

Advocacy and Activism, Community, Health, Policy, Sex & Sexuality, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC), VAC Legacy Series

Dennis Altman is the writer and academic behind the ground-breaking book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation during the gay liberation movement ...

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Jul
6
2023

Alison Thorne – Community Living Legend

Advocacy and Activism, Community, Health, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC), VAC Legacy Series

Alison Thorne a longstanding socialist feminist and advocate for our LGBTIQ+ communities as well as half the namesake of Thorne ...

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Jul
4
2023

Supporting Rainbow Mob amidst Voice debate

Advocacy and Activism, Health, NAIDOC, Society & Culture, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC)

We discuss how to support rainbow mob amidst the debate surrounding the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and the upcoming referendum. Shane ...

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Jun
29
2023

Shane Sturgiss and BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation

Advocacy and Activism, Community, Health, NAIDOC, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC)

Shane Sturgiss from the BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation joins us to talk about his upbringing, identity, and his interest in counselling ...

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Jun
12
2023

Queer Gaze and Wicked Women

Advocacy and Activism, Art, Community, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC)

Wicked Women (1988–96) was a delectable sex-positive zine published by Lisa and Jasper thirty years ago when they decided Australian ...

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May
11
2023

International Nurses Day – HIV and Sexual Health Nurses

Advocacy and Activism, Health, HIV, Science & Medicine, Sexual Health, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC)

Jacinta and Rachel recognise International Nurses Day (May 12) by speaking to Dr Liz Crock AM and Mark Thompson about ...

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Apr
17
2023

Anti-racism with HUE Colour the Conversation

Advocacy and Activism, Society & Culture

Michael and Jacinta speak with Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg, the co-founder and director of Hue. Hue: Colour the Conversation is an anti-oppression and ...

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Apr
6
2023

Trans Visibility in the Arts with Mama Alto

Advocacy and Activism, Art, Health, Non binary, Trans & Gender Diverse

Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendant diva. She is a transgender and queer person of colour ...

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Well, Well, Well

Phil Carswell – Community Living Legend

Jamie Gardiner – Community Living Legend

Dennis Altman – Community Living Legend

Alison Thorne – Community Living Legend

Supporting Rainbow Mob amidst Voice debate

Shane Sturgiss and BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation

Queer Gaze and Wicked Women

International Nurses Day – HIV and Sexual Health Nurses

Anti-racism with HUE Colour the Conversation

Trans Visibility in the Arts with Mama Alto

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