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Trans Day of Visibility

joel.parker@joy.org.au — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:00:31 +0000

In this Trans Day of Visibility special, we hear from two heroes of the trans and gender diverse community. Joe Ball, Victorian LGBTIQA+ Commissioner, and Son Vivienne, CEO of Transgender Victoria, discuss the double-edged sword of visibility, anti-trans rhetoric from the US, and how trans people can be effective leaders.

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing at joy.org.au/wellwellwell.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at thorneharbour.org and in South Australia at samesh.org.au.

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Trans and Gender Diverse in Community Health (TGDiCH) Training Project

Jack — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:00:25 +0000

The Trans and Gender Diverse in Community Health (TGDiCH) Training Project equips health professionals with the skills to deliver inclusive and affirmative care while addressing stigma and discrimination.

Joel Parker speaks with the program’s team leader Alex Sturman about:

Why a program like this is needed, and common challenges TGD people face when seeking care,
Who the program is designed for and its main topics
Shifts in attitudes or behaviours among participants of the program, and more.

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing at joy.org.au/wellwellwell.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at thorneharbour.org and in South Australia at samesh.org.au.

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Everyday People

Michael — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 17:25:57 +0000

We are sharing everyday stories by Everyday People. This past year, Thorne Harbour has been connecting with our community to showcase the diversity of our multicultural LGBTIQA+ and PLHIV communities, and take a look at the personal narratives of people’s experience with mental health. As people who come from non English speaking backgrounds, we connected to share the impact of migration stress, identity, and their connection to culture as a protective factor when thinking about good mental health – and how they have responded to periods of mental ill health.

This project, Everyday People, has centred the voices of our community first and foremost – sharing their stories in their chosen language, and made available in English also. We’re going to chat to three incredible community members who share their stories of mental health with us. If you’d like to hear their stories in full, head to everyday-people.au – and if you’re looking for ways to improve your own mental health or combat social isolation, check out the resource page for places you can get support that are affirming for you.

Michael spoke with Sasja, Boudie and Emil about their experience sharing their stories.

This episode was recorded on the lands of the Yalukut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung peoples, Wurundjeri land, and Noongar Whadjuk land. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

This episode originally aired Thursday, August15 2024 on JOY.
Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing.
If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions to wellwellwell@joy.org.au
Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH

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Rainbow Mob Health – Reconciliation Week

Michael — Thu, 30 May 2024 12:01:50 +0000

Walkern Katatdjin (Rainbow Knowledge) is a national research project that aims to understand and promote the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQA+ young people, and to work with services to develop appropriate interventions.

Shakara Liddelow-Hunt and Tahlia Blow join us to discuss the report and the themes of health, pride, joy, and culture. Peter (Ngaya Ngarigu) is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Educator at Thorne Harbour Health, and joins Michael as guest co-host this episode.

The Walkern Katatdjin project was run by Telethon Kids Institute, Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre (Murdoch University), Edith Cowan University, and the University of Western Australia and is funded by the NHMRC.

This podcast contains information about mental ill health, suicide, and bad experiences young people have had in their life. It’s important to seek help if you’re feeling distressed.

For immediate assistance, please call 000 or go to your closest Emergency Department.

Michael spoke with Natalie Amos from ARCSHS about Rainbow Realities exploring fresh analyses from surveys such as Private Lives, Writing Themselves – which also included Walkern Katatdjin.

This episode originally aired Thursday, May 30 2024 on JOY.
Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing.
If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions to wellwellwell@joy.org.au
Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

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Transfemme

Jack — Sat, 18 May 2024 23:00:53 +0000

Starlady joins us to discuss Transfemme’s updated resources to support healthier relationships between trans women and men.

The new resources can be found on the Zoe Belle Gender Collective and Transfemme websites.

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

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Transgender Australia – A History Since 1910

Jacinta — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:00:32 +0000

Jack and Rachel speak with academic, researcher and author Noah Roseman about his book Transgender Australia – A History Since 1910. Drawing on over a hundred oral history interviews and previously unexamined documents and media reports, it highlights how trans people have tried to live authentically while navigating a society that often treated them like outcasts. It is the first book to chart the history of gender diverse Australians, exploring both progress and ongoing battles.

See the book Transgender Australia – A History Since 1910

Victoria’s Transgender History – Transgender Victoria (TGV) 2021 report

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

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Trans Day of Visibility with Tamsin Anspach

Jacinta — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:00:47 +0000

On this Trans Day of Visibility, we speak with trans advocate Tamsin Anspach from the South Australian Rainbow Advocacy Alliance, Youth Affairs Council of South Australia and Thorne Harbour Health Board Member, about her role as a leader within our trans and gender diverse communities, the South Australian government’s proposed human rights act, the future of trans health and the importance of trans visibility.

www.saraa.org.au

thorneharbour.org

www.yacsa.com.au

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

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Julie Peters – International Women’s Day

Jacinta — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:42:37 +0000

Jacinta and Rachel speak to the inspiring Julie Peters. Even in her 70s, Julie Peters is naïve enough to believe the world can be a better place and has her life trying to make it happen; as a doctoral researcher in public health and anthropology of gender, a teacher, sessional academic, cabaret performer, writer, parliamentary candidate, practical environmentalist and media professional. A strong focus of her work over three decades has been to demythologise and promote social justice and equity for trans and gender diverse individuals with the public, health professionals and across intersectional academic discourses.

Julie takes us on her incredible journey from childhood to transitioning in the seventies to her words of wisdom for young trans people.

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

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TAPS – Trans and Gender Diverse Alcohol and Other Drug Peer Support

Jack — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:00:50 +0000

Jack and Michael are joined by Atlas, the Casual Groups Facilitator for TAPS, Thorne Harbour Health’s Trans and gender diverse Alcohol and other drug Peer Support program.

TAPS is run by trans, non-binary and gender diverse folk and is all about meeting you where you’re at.

You might want to gain more control over your use, reduce it or stop all together.

Working under a harm reduction framework – facilitators support attendees to reduce the harms that come about from using alcohol and other drugs.

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

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Long COVID and HIV

Jacinta — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 04:15:25 +0000

Jacinta and Rachel speak to Themme Fatale about their experiences of long COVID and the scientific and social comparisons of HIV and long COVID

Themme Fatale is an award winning, sideshow-slinging drag artist, known locally and internationally as a genre-blending and gender-transcending performer, producer, and creator with an eye for works that emphasise accessibility and foster riotous Queer joy (with an emphasis on riot). On stage, they serve high skill, high camp circus absurdism and dangerous sideshow stunts – putting the “sin” in “sincere expression of queer identity”, the “ass” in “class conscious”, and their body on the line for their art.

Resources

Themme Fatale on Instagram

Information about long COVID from the Victorian Department of Health

Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health & wellbeing.

If there’s something you’d like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au

Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria at Thorne Harbour Health and in South Australia at SAMESH.

This episode was recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Woi Wurrung peoples. We pay our respects to their elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

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