Queering The Air

Interview with Natasha Jynel about her new show, Auto Bio Queen playing at the Butterfly Club.And an interview with Sheridon and Fiona about Feminism &childbirth.

On this episode of Queering the Air Thanh Hằng & Iris chat to Virginia Fraser, co-curator of the 'Close to You: The Lisa Bellear Picture Show' exhibiting at the Koori Heritage Trust. Lisa Bellear, a Minjungbul/ Goernpil/ Noonuccal/Kanak woman was an Indigenous activist, photographer, broadcaster, poet, feminist, academic and perfomer. The exhibition coincides with the tenth anniversary of Lisa's passing.We chat about Lisa's life, her photography, her public persona and her private life, as well as her time on 3CR We also hear a clipped interview of Lisa chatting to Ruth Barney on 3CR's Women on the Line show in 1992. The full 27 minute original interview of Lisa on Women on the Line 1992 can be found here (wednesday breakfast show 6th of July 2016).photo by Lisa Bellear featured in the exhibition Close to You: The Lisa Bellear Picture Show.

Listen to an interview with collective members, Claire and Ezel from comedy/ performing arts collective PO PO MO CO about their work and upcoming show in solidarity with Orlando. Additionally a discussion about the Federal election and Queer news.

On this episode of Queering the Air we speak to Jacob Boehme about his latest production Blood on the Dancefloor (BOTDF). Jacob Boehme is a Melbourne born and based artist of Aborignal heritage, from the Narangga (Yorke Peninsula) and Gaurna (Adelaide Plains) nations of South Australia. BOTDF will be premiering at the ArtsHouse June 1st - 5th. On IDAHBOT Day May 17th Iris and Thanh Hang attended the launch of Equinox, Melbourne's first Health Clinic for Gender Diverse and Trans people. We spoke to the audience about their hopes for Equinox and why it's important to them. Image by Dorine Blaise 

 Mason Wang was involved in the 'No Pride in Detention' float at the Sydney Mardi Gras in March earlier this year. We chat to them about their action. We also play recent interviews from the Bendigo St Homelessness and Housing Action.

On today's episode Amy reports back from Footscray Community Art Centre's Women Arts Politics Symposium. This year the symposium looks at how young secondary boys can be included in the discussion of feminism. We hear performances by young secondary girls on their experiences of feminism + more! Thanh Hang is joined in the studio with Iris and together they discuss patriachy, feminism and emotional labour. Image by Daniela Rodriguez

In today's show we talked about the amazing VoiceFest with Erik and Idil and covered the Trans Day of Visibility

During this show presenter Amy speaks with recent high school graduate, Erik Ly and high school teacher, Cordelia, about the impacts of the cuts & changes to the Safe School Coalition program.

Liza Maza is a Filipina Congresswoman, a representative of GabrielaWomen's Party in the Philippine House of Representatives, activist, and current leader/president of GABRIELA, Philippines' frontline network of anti-imperialist, women's grassroots organisations. Malou Logan is the President of GABRIELA Australia. We talk about Gabriela Australia as it celebrates its 20th Anniversary. We also discuss the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and its implications.

Bobuck Sayed is a Queer Afghan Australian writer, performer and editor. They also wrote 'The Pinkwashing of Mlebourne Pride' in Archer Magazine.

Jessie & Thanh Hang celebrate Queer Lunar New Year on Queering the Air!bai bai wooden goat and hello Fire Monkey. Bringing you firey predictions and lunar love letters for the future ahead

We do an overview of some of the highlights of the Midsumma program, discuss social media and Invasion Day events

Nicki, Jessie and Luke talk all about classic and modern queer icons: divas, tragic figures, closeted queers and hot martyrs. We also review Buyer and Cellar and Hugh Jackman's Broadway to Oz.

J&T interview Arun Kundnani on radicalisation and radicalisation theory.  Arun Kundnani is the author of 'The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror'- a powerful critique of US surveillance of American Muslims. His book, 'The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain', was selected as a New Statesman book of the year in 2007. He is former editor of the journal, Race & Class, he was educated at Cambridge University and holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University. He is currently a lecturer at New York University.This is followed by an interview with Nathan Lean on the Islamophobia Industry. Nathan Lean is a writer and scholar of the Middle East. Nathan holds a Masters degree in International Studies (Middle East) from East Carolina University and a Master of Arts in Arab Studies (Arab Politics) from Georgetown University. He is the author of four books, including the award-winning 'The Islamophobia Industry'. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Time

On this episode of Queering the Air, Thanh Hằng covers mental health, self-care, community care and it's place in the Arts. We hear from Judy Atkinson, a Jiman and Budjalong woman whose work focuses on arts, healing, trauma and 'educaring'.We also chat to Rani Pramesti, theatre-maker and Associate Producer at Footscray Community Arts Centre, as well as Dawn Dangkomen, digital artist and writer as well as a MA student of Counselling and Psycotherapy.and finally we hear from Festival Director, Liz Alexander on Tilde, Melbourne's Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival coming up 13th-15th November.  

J&T Interview Sa'ed Atshan, Member of Palestinian LGBT advocacy group, Al-Qaws, and Jordy Silverstein, Executive member of Australian Jewish Democratic Society, and discuss a variety of topics. This is followed by an update on gendered violence in detention centres.

On this episode of Queering the Air Thanh Hằng covers the politics of QTPOC HairThanh Hằng chats to Amena, Raina and Rai as they share their experiences with hair care  + chats to Vaxx and Angela about the queer visibility/invisibility and race and gender politics of qtpoc hair. Vaxx, Angela and Thanh Hằng also read out love letters from various qtpocs about their relationship with their hair. 

We chat with Anna, Regina and Dan from the Brunswick Renegades and James from Melbourne Surge about queerness and sport. Why are there so many queer girls in sport? How can sport be more inclusive? Who wins the ultimate war of Nerds v Jocks?

On this episode of the show J & T talk briefly about the refugee crises in Syria and the world, feature an interview with the Our Voices, Changing Cultures project, and review the "Asian Ghost-ery Show" playing at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

On this episode of Queering the Air Thanh Hằng explores Women's Emotional Labour, Feminism, Capital Value and Theory with Melbourne-based writer and artist, Aurelia Guo and co-founder of the Feminist Theory Reading Group, Eva Birch.We also hear from with Arrente woman, Celeste Liddle's s talk at Liquid Architecture's FMX: What would a Feminist Methodology sound like? .