Queering The Air

Kee'ahn - Better ThingsTracy Chapman - Talkin' bout a revolution 6:30 - Introductions, shout out to Futuna Youth Nursery,  Wuurn of Kanak, Fundraiser, podcast with more on Women on the Line. Alice Skye - Speak Your Language 17:17 - We hear from Alex who talks about the House of Mutual Learning initiative, talking on themes of community support, mental health, to healing. HOML's fundraiser, Instagram.Shout out to The Food Angels mutual aid: link to their fundraiser, Instagram. Hunny Machete - Bed of bones 48:50 - Subscribe to 3CR! Scarlet Alliance, Online Safety Bill 2020 statement. And Dean Spade's piece 'For lovers and fighters'. June Jones - Home

First we hear some news and shout-outs (below). Then we hear from Pas Forgione, who has been active in welfare rights for many years on a range of topics including reflections on 2020, to welfare and queers, to precarious work. Second, we'll hear from Alex Bouchet, lead candidate for Pride in Protest's push to get on the board of Mardi Gras, challenging pink dollar cop friendly politics,  talking about yesterday's AGM and more. We end with some shout-outs.News and shout-outsFirst Nations mutual aidDisability Day 2020 - Imagining disability justiceGamil means no movementRenters and housing unionBobuq Sayed on "A new generation of Australian war criminals"Why cops don’t deserve a float at Mardi Gras | Keith QuayleRed Pocket Press Queer Lunar New Year zine call-outIRL Infoshop mutual aid

Content warning: This episode contains descriptions and discussions of violence against women and girls, physical and emotional abuse, sexual violence, economic abuse, isolation, and queerphobia that may be distressing for some listeners. If this type of content is a trigger for you, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, or lifeline.org.au, Switchboard Victoria on 1800 184 527 or switchboard.org.au, or contact your state-based service.  Michele and Niveen speak with Forcibly Displaced People Network's Co-founder and Chair and queer feminist academic Tina Dixson, and Board Director and policy and government relations professional Lavanya Kala, about queer women from migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker backgrounds experiencing gendered violence, their extensive advocacy work with forcibly displaced people, migration, human rights, and gender equity issues, and how to support women and girls experiencing all forms of violence in the context of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. 

We hear from Arika Waulu being interviewed by Priya Kunjun from 3CR's Thursday Breakfast on the Wuurn of Kanak Landback initiative. Second, we hear from Emily and Victor of the alt rock band Edith Lane on the recent launch of their album, Eden on the Park.Also MentionedIRL Infoshop xmas hampersIncarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community FundTracksKee'ahn - Better ThingsAlice Skye - Grand IdeasEdith Lane -  B (I'm glad we talked)Edith Lane - A Conversation With the DevilTracy Chapman - Talkin' bout a revolution 

Our guest this week is LGBTIQ+ liberationist, Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women member, Alison Thorne who discusses the need for a health response, instead of policing the pandemic, including protest repression, as well as reflections on responses to the HIV / AIDS pandemic in the time of another pandemic.Fundraiser shout-outsCOVID-19 Victorian First Nations Mutual Aid FundIncarcerated Trans & Gender Diverse Community FundMusic Alice Skye - Grand IdeasKee'ahn - Better ThingsJune Jones - Jenny (Breathe)Dark Water - PoisonEdith Lane - Kings of Plinths

Content warning: Please be aware that this episode contains descriptions and discussions of intimate partner violence, psychological abuse, family violence, domestic violence, physical violence, queerphobia, and mental health issues. If this is a trigger for you, please contact Lifeline (13 11 14), Switchboard Victoria (1800 184 527), or contact your state-based service. In this episode, we discuss intimate partner violence in queer relationships from professional and lived experience perspectives. Michele speaks with Karen Field, CEO of Drummond Street Services and Queerspace, and a partner of WithRespect.  We discuss intimate partner violence in the context of queer relationships, why it occurs, and what resources people can access, especially during a global pandemic. Niveen speaks with queer performance artist *Anonymous, about her personal account of experiencing intimate partner violence in her relationship and its continuing effects and impact on her life.*Anonymous has requested th

This week we cover two areas: stories from people who have been inside prisons, and organising to change conditions of precarious housing. These are both areas where the pandemic have intensified already existing inequalities. First, we hear extracts from two speakers from the Abolition and Transformative Justice Centre's webinar Stories from Inside Prison in late July, featuring author and advocate Damien Linnane and disability justice and LGBTIQ+ advocate Ashleigh Chapman. Second, we hear from Eirene Tsolidis Noyce from the Renters and Housing Union Victoria. The interview has previously aired on 3CR's Women on the Line. Music: Kee'ahn - Better Things and Alice Skye - Grand Ideas Pandemic fundraisers / mutual aid: IRL food boxes(link is external), First Nations mutual aid fund(link is external), RISE Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees emergency support(link is external) and RISE food truck, Scarlet Alliance support fund for sex workers(link is externa

We are in a serious global pandemic health crisis. States around the world, including the Andrews state government have tackled the virus cop-heavy and with blanket responses minimising their own health failures and leaving many behind. We can imagine another approach, grounded in resourcing communities, health and harm reduction. We hear from four guests, who touch on some of the significant issues here in so called Victoria:Tiara on the distress and dangers of quarantine and isolation, and punitive barriers to support Hope on experiences of systemic failures as a frontline health worker and nursing studentPolly unpacking the assumptions of restrictions on people living solo, care and bosses forcing precarious workers to work in unsafe conditionsStarlady on the significant mental health impacts, problems with policing, and failures in the LGBTIQ services spaceAnd more. Covid-19 Prison Watch Pandemic fundraisers / mutual aid: IRL food boxes, First Nations mutual aid fund,&nb

Content warning: Please be aware that this episode contains descriptions and discussions of discrimination towards queer people, othering, Islamophobia, sex, and religion. If this is a trigger for you, please contact Lifeline (13 11 14), Switchboard Victoria (1800 184 527), or contact your state-based service. Michele Vescio speaks with Niveen Abdelatty, a queer Muslim woman of colour and a politically charged DJ and musician, about her queer history through the lens of intersectionality and disidentification; we also unpack discussions on decolonising information and education in the context of queer history within broad LGBTIQA+ identities and communities.  Tracklisting: 'Disjointed' by Candy Royalle, 'A Deeper Love' (Sixty Feet Deep remix) by Aretha Franklin Research resources:Decolonizing Queer Time: A Critique of Anachronism in Latin@ WritingsEveryday Decolonization: Living a Decolonizing Queer PoliticsAgainst State Straightism: Five Principles for I

We hear a conversation with Petra Blagojevic on violence within queer relationships (non-graphic), survivor support, politics beyond the not-for-profit industrial complex, care in the pandemic, mutual aid, reflections and more.MentionedUndercurrent's Support and Safety Planning resources during the Covid-19 pandemicThe Revolution will not be FundedHolding accountable [Instagram]Pandemic fundraisers / mutual aid: IRL food boxes, First Nations mutual aid fund, RISE Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees emergency support, Scarlet Alliance support fund for sex workers. Prison Is Abuse: Understanding Prisons, Abuse of Power, and Control [youtube]Prison by another nameJulia Bak's writing on care work

Content warning: Please be aware that this episode contains descriptions and discussions of HIV stigma and discrimination. If this is a trigger for you, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au, Switchboard Victoria on 1800 184 527 or switchboard.org.au, or contact your state-based service. Michele Vescio speaks with activist, writer, and amateur archivist Beau Newham about his HIV health promotion work with LGBTQ NGO Yayasan Gaya Dewata, the continual ongoing HIV stigma that exists towards PLHIV, his side projects Queer Indonesia Archive and QLC, and his writing work. Beau’s writing work is available via medium.com/@beaunewham.Find details on Queer Indonesia Archive via qiarchive.org and QLC Jakarta via twitter.com/qlc_jakarta.Information on HIV support can be obtained via Thorne Harbour Health, Victoria’s peak body for LGBTIQA+ health promotion, and The Institute of Many (TIM), a peer-run movement for People Living with HIV.Support Yayasan Gaya Dewata via gayadewata.com. 

We hear from Karen d'Konyak on Victoria Police and the state turning public housing into temp prisons in the name of 'public health'. The interview with Karen was done by Mini from DIY show Satellite Skies. Later hear from Positively Positive in Seattle on Black Lives Matter to HIV, not-for-profits, asexuality, friendship, creativity and more.Music:Poison - Dark WaterWoke Blokes - Thelma PlumSong 33 - NonameGrand Ideas - Alice SkyeBetter Things - Kee'AhnTheme music - Heterosexuality (It's no good for Me) - Dosh Luckwell

Content warning: Please be aware that this episode contains descriptions or discussions of state violence, queerphobia, mental health, suicide, and the effects of structural racism. If this is a trigger for you, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au, Switchboard Victoria on 1800 184 527 or switchboard.org.au, or contact your state-based service. Michele presents a series of commentaries and audio in relation to the global #BLM movement, Indigenous deaths in custody, and the erasure or silencing of black, brown, indigenous, and/or POC queer voices from the mainstream media landscape, and why the BLM political and social movement is important in terms of centering black queer activism and voices. The commentaries are provided by Niveen Abelatty (HipHopHoe), an Arabic Muslim woman of colour and a politically charged DJ and musician; Diimpa (William Cooper) a mixed Kabi Kabi autistic queer man and an avant composer and soundscape weaver; and Anonymous,

We hear an excerpt from 3CR's live cross at WAR's Stop Black Deaths in Custody rally / Black lives matter rally in Melbourne, with Meriki Onus' opening speech. We then hear from Sam Elkin from the St Kilda Legal Service's LGBTIQ Legal Service on the launch of the Roberta Perkins Law Project. Next we revisit interviews from 2019 on sociologist, trans and sex worker rights activist Roberta Perkins, with Elena Jeffreys from Respect Inc. Second, we hear Cameron Cox from Sex Workers Outreach Project NSW. Finally, we hear an excerpt from Transformative Justice Podcast with Anne-Lise Ah Fat, Petra Blagojevic, and Alice McDonald, speaking on the limits of not-for-profits. Also featuredJustice for Joyce Clark fundraiserKee'Ahn's track Better ThingsIRL Infoshop mutual aid project

Queering The Air acknowledges the injustices happening in America and the protests in relation to the recent death of George Floyd. We acknowledge that since 1991 that over 420 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in police custody as a result of continued colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, and neoliberalism.Stop Black Deaths in custody. Indigenous Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter. Black Trans Lives Matter. More information on this resistive movement can be found at Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance. Michele Vescio speaks with Ava Amedi - a writer, musician, and artist working across songwriting, artist interview, performance, poetry, and non-fiction writing genres. We discuss Ava’s arts practice and influences, notions on cultural criticism in his writing, his recent Testing Grounds residency, pop music in the context of accessibility and accountability, and discussions on effectual modes of conversation.Read Ava’s works discussed

We hear shout-outs to crowdraisers: First Nations Covid-19 fund, Undocumented Migrants Covid19 fund, Emergency Support Fund for Sex Workers, and RISE's Emergency Appeal. We then hear from Julia Rose Bak on care work and disability (Previously aired on GNC and women's voices show Women On The Line).Support the June 3CR Station Appeal to keep radical radio alive!Finally, we go back to September 2018 to hear an interview with Jessica Ibacache and Fox Smoulder about their work in the 'In Sickness and Stealth' collective.

We acknowledge that today’s episode is broadcast on the International Day against homophobia, biphobia, interphobia, and transphobia - a day that raises awareness of LGBTIQA+ rights violations and to stimulate interest in queer rights work worldwide. #IDAHOBIT2020 Michele Vescio speaks with Tina Dixson and Renee Dixson who have been together for a decade now, not only as a couple but partners in everything they do. They both have a lived experience as queer refugee women. Currently, they are both PhD Candidates at the Australian National University and are advocates for the rights and inclusion of LGBTIQA+ people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.We discuss their continued activism and advocacy for LGBTIQA+ refugee and asylum seekers, Renee’s work on a digital archive of LGBTIQ+ forced migration, last year’s inaugural Queer Displacements conference and the creation of the Canberra statement, their current and upcomin

We hear:Shout outs to vital fundraisers, and news: Undocumented Migrants Covid19 fund, First Nations Covid-19 fund, and Emergency Support Fund for Sex Workers.From Meri Leworthy on mutual aid work with Covid-19 Queer Aid Naarm / Melbourne. (Facebook)Re-broadcast from In Ya Face, with James McKenzie speaking to Peaches from Vixen Collective on issues for sex workers during Covid19 and the Victorian Government's Sex Work Inquiry. Re-broadcasts from Thursday Breakfast, with Max Castle speaking to Jeremy King on the findings on the Hares and Hyenas raid (and a comment on Justice for Tanya Day), and Max speaking to Sam Elkin from the St Kilda Legal Service on the LGBTI+ Legal Needs Survey.

Michele Vescio speaks with Shane Thoms, a visual documenter and photographer, about his experiences of isolation in the 80s, being queer, and questioning his gender and sexual identity and gender expression, and the quasi-correlation to the current measure of self-isolation and social/physical distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.Shane's work focuses on the abandoned space, where he visually captures traces of human emotion and urban evolution. His work has been featured on CNN, The Business Insider, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, La Repubblica, Viral Nova, and The Weather Channel. View Shane's work via Facebook, Instagram, and shanethoms.com. Content warning: This episode contains some sexual and explicit language, and descriptions and discussions about queerphobia, othering, isolation, and discrimination towards queer people. If this type of content is a trigger for you, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or lifeline.org.au, Switchboard Victoria on 1800 184 527 or switchboard.org.au, Queerspace

Michele presents a collection of spoken word audio works by author, activist, and storyteller Otter Lieffe, a trans woman living in Berlin. Her works discuss ageism, precarity, gender, trans lives, and intersecting oppressions affecting trans women. Michele also presents an excerpt of a 2017 interview they conducted with Otter at the time of the release of her first novel Margins and Murmurations.Works in this episode include Margins and Murmurations: chapter 1, Ageism And Survival, My Gender Is Precarity, Not An Artist, and My Fucking Voice.More information at otterlieffe.com and soundcloud.com/otterlieffe.Tracklisting: 'The Park' by Body of Work feat. Otter Lieffe, 'Cut The World'by Antony & The Johnsons, 'A Deeper Love' (Sam Halabi Remix) by Aretha Franklin. Digital image by Julian Curico [Image shows: a digital painting from a photo of Otter. She stands with her right hand on her right hip and wea