‘Chilli and Spice, Curry or Rice?’

2 August at 17:30–19:00

Sexual appetites, ethnic stereotypes, and racism in our LGBTIQA communities.

THIS IS A FREE MIDWINTA EVENT

A moderator will chair a panel of 4-5 speakers from different ethnic and gender backgrounds, and pose a series of hypotheticals. Each hypothetical will look at an aspect of our community:

  • Are there ethnic hierarchies in our LGBTIQA communities, and if so, how is this evident?
  • Are such ethnic hierarchies the same when we are looking for a serious relationship as opposed to just cruising?
  • Does each ethnic culture have a typical set of values and behaviours?
  • Do different ethnic cultures have reputations in our communities? Do people resent this or does it empower them?
  • Does having a personal preference imply discrimination? Is discrimination racism?
  • Is it Ok to fetish-ize people according to their ethnic background?
  • Is there a way that we can seek out our preferences, while still maintaining each other’s dignity?

TIME: 2 August at 17:30–19:00

VENUE: Hares Hyenas, 63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065

Transgender and CALD: DIversity within Diversity

The Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council and Hares & Hyenas present Under the Skin #4, a panel series exploring queer life from culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives.

Diversity within diversity: trans and CALD.

What experiences can occur when someone is transgender and also from a cultural and/or linguistically diverse background? How is it like to navigate between the two?

This panel will explore whether identifying as transgender can impact on a person’s cultural identity, and vice-versa: whether a person’s cultural background impacts on aspects of sexual and transgender identity.

What experiences – both positive and negative – can be gained when there is “diversity within diversity”?

Chaired by Sally Goldner, our AGMC panel includes Kylie Supski (Artist/Performer), Kai Clancy (Educator, Victorian Aids Council), Erik Ly (YGender) and Marco Fink (Minus 18).

There will also be a guest writer, AE Dooland, who will read a chapter from her book “Under My Skin” (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OKZVCVC)
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This panel discussion is the fourth in a series of evenings devoted to exploring queer diversity in ethnicity, culture and language in Australia.

Call us on (03) 9495 6589 or drop into Hares & Hyenas to book tickets to events

This event will take place at 63 Johnston St Fitzroy. For more details:http://wordisout.com.au/contact-us

“Same Same But Different” Navigating Sexuality, Gender, Culture, and Religion

We would like to invite you and members of your group to attend a VAC Community Forum exploring cultural diversity in Melbourne’s GLBTIQ community. “Same Same But Different” aims to explore the navigation of sexuality, gender, culture and religion as experienced by members of the community. Moderated by Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, the forum will provide us with a space where we can listen to others’ stories, share our personal experiences, and explore ways to create an inclusive space for CALD GLBTIQs.

“Same Same But Different”
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Blue Room, The Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne CBD
Door open from 6 PM for 6.30 PM start

Speakers:
· Dr Gilbert Caluya – Academic, University of South Australia

· Lia Incognita – Radio presenter, Queering the Wave, 3CR 855 AM

· Shinen Wong – Public health professional, activist and educator

· Monique Hameed – Project Officer, Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health

· Raina Peterson – Writer and classical Indian dancer

· A representative from Marhaba Muslim GLBTIQs

This is a FREE forum. Please RSVP via email forums@vac.org.au for catering purpose.

Free Film Screening: God Loves Uganda

Presented by Amnesty International (Vic.) LGBTIQ Network & University of Melbourne Chapter

The documentary is a look into the LGBTIQ community in Uganda and the forces that have influenced

recent surges in homophobia. To join us for the FREE screening and an excellent panel discussion on

international LGBTIQ rights following the film, simply book a free ticket on Eventbrite.

http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/god-loves-uganda-amnesty-international-lgbtiq-network-university-of-melbourne-group-film-screening-tickets-15921837645?aff=es2

Please note! This film is exempt from classification and therefore attendees must be over 18 years of age.

Reviews of the film:

“Masterfully crafted and astonishingly provocative, God Loves Uganda may be the most terrifying film of the year.”
– David Courier, Sundance Film Festival

“A searing look at the role of American evangelical missionaries in the persecution of gay Africans”
– Jeanette Catsoulis, The New York Times

Find out more about the film at the God Loves Uganda website and follow our Amnesty groups – the LGBTIQ Network and the University of Melbourne Group – for updates.

Riding the Waves @ Queer Thinking (part of Syd Mardi Gras)

This program is supported by ACON and the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council (AGMC).

“Riding the Waves” is an account of critical anti-racist, immigrant, and community empowerment movement; holding central a dialogue on global justice and informed through the lens of feminist and multicultural historiography. Via an exploration of inter-community empowerment and movement towards better health, justice and human rights, this program posits our unique role in the remaking of a just world, addressing current challenges of stigma, homophobia and heterosexism.

When: Sat 21st Feb, 11am
Where: Seymour Centre www.seymourcentre.com
Cost: $16 – $20, whole day entry

The program is divided into two sessions

Session 1: Three Waves

Writer, community activist and artist, Shinen Wong, will present a ‘3 Waves’ framework: a discussion of feminist and queer historiography, Asian Australian immigration history, gay men’s community development, and intersectional community solidarity movements. The ‘3 waves’, inspired by feminist historiography and developed through ongoing consultations with broader LGBT communities and Asian gay men locally and internationally, will seek to pose questions and deconstruct notions of identity, power and privilege through an historiographic account of Asian gay men’s community development. This session will conclude with a Q&A.

Session 2: Riding the Waves

Building on the ‘Three Waves’ framework, a discussion panel of community-identified speakers will explore further the implications of this framework in mobilising social justice work:

Benjamin Oh, educator and public health practitioner, will discuss support and solidarity with marginalised communities both internationally and locally through aid development, and especially with refugees, asylum seekers and religious gay people in Australia.

Min Fuh Teh, Health Promotion Officer at ACON, will present an exploration of Asian gay men’s community development in Sydney and the challenges of HIV prevention and messaging. The A-MEN project, an ACON arts- and culture-based health promotion and community development initiative for Asian gay men, will be discussed as an application of the ‘Three Waves’ model.

Krystyna Posunkina is a LGBT human rights activist and refugee. She is committed to the plight of asylum seekers and refugees both personally and professionally. She comes with extensive experience in the non-for-profit sector and human rights activism. She is working on her PhD research about LGBTI asylum seekers from Ex-Soviet Union Countries.

Timothy Mansfield, strategy consultant and futurist will trace and critically appraise the thread of evolutionary and historiographical perspectives on global justice movements for LGBT people.

For more information on Queer Thinking, visit www.mardigras.org.au/events/queer-thinking

Under the Skin #3: Queer CALD Family

Tue 3 Feb, 7.30pm 15/$10

The Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council and Hares & Hyenas present Under the Skin #3, a panel series exploring queer life from culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives.

Families can be those we are born into or those we make ourselves. Does our ethnic background and cultural beliefs determine our ideas about ourselves when it comes to sexuality and identity?

Will those ideas affect how we relate to our parents, siblings and extended family? Where does our cultural and ethnic background fit when we are making intimate relationships?

And what are the consequences when we decide to choose a family of our making rather than automatically going with our biological family and their possible expectations?

Chaired by Associate Professor Ruth McNair, our AGMC panel includes educator and community advocate, Dr Tony Mordini (President AGMC), neuropsychologist and community advocate, Dr Judy Tang (Vice-President AGMC), educator and senior policy adviser, Tony Romanelli and peer educator at Victorian AIDS Council, Budi Sudarto.

This panel discussion is the third in a series of evenings devoted to exploring queer diversity in ethnicity, culture and language in Australia.

Call us on (03) 9495 6589 or drop into Hares & Hyenas to book tickets to events

This event will take place at 63 Johnston St Fitzroy. For more details:http://wordisout.com.au/contact-us

TASA Conference 2014

Monday, 24 November 2014

University of South Australia

Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5000
AGMC Inc will be part of a plenary at the TASA Conference!

more details on conference go to:

http://www.tasa.org.au/tasa-conference/

Under the Skin #2: Faith, Culture & Sexuality

Hares Hyenas

63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065

Bookings: www.trybooking.com/GBIN

The second in an occasional series of forums on cultural and linguistic diversity in the LGBTIQ community. For hundreds of years people of different faiths, denominations, races and cultures have lived side by side, yet in the recent past this coexistence has been challenged. Across the world we have seen an increasing polarisation around issues of religious, cultural and sexual identity.

The Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council and Hares & Hyenas present three speakers who have either lived in the Middle East or come from a Middle Eastern background.

Mo Elleissy, Hasnain Cyrus and Michael Al-Bacha will talk about their personal experiences and their hopes for the future in a panel discussion led by academic and author Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli.

During the night author Al-Bacha will read from his recent memoir, Am I All Right, God?, and talk about his experiences coming out as gay in a Lebanese Christian family.

Thursday 23 October at 7.30pm
Hares & Hyenas
63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy
Full $10 Concession/AGMC Members $5

Bookings: www.trybooking.com/GBIN