This episode features many heavy and potentially triggering topics, around homelessness, transphobia, suicide and sexual assualt/exploitation. Please take care listening and contact the below services if you need support:

https://www.lifeline.org.au/

https://toolkit.lifeline.org.au/articles/support/qlife

https://www.rainbowdoor.org.au/

https://www.switchboard.org.au/

https://www.minus18.org.au/

https://www.transfamily.org.au/

https://mindaustralia.org.au/services/aftercare

The first part of today's episode is with Ishtar Hope AKA the Artful Dole Bludger. We discuss her mutual aid work in support of trans people who are denied life saving gender affirimng healthcare. We then talk about her work in the housing space in particualry how it affects the trans community.

Ishtar's fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/f8mdf

The second part of the interview is an excerpt from a panel discussion recorded on the 26th of July 2025 called Surveillance, and the street, the recent criminalisation of homelessness. This was part of Local Positioning Systems held at the Victorian Quakers Centre. Full panel recording here.

Speakers in order of appearance:

• Greg Denim - Harm Reduction Australia & Law Enforcement Action Partnerships
• Craig "Turtle" - Current living on the street, interviewee on Homeless in Hotels
• Pat "Spike" - Social Worker, lived experience of homelessness/AOD & former 3CR programmer on Ruminations
• David Boarder Giles - Anthropologist from Deakin
• Megs Fitzgerald - Fitzroy Legal Service strategic litigation lived experience of homelessness. 

Music and Audio:

Liberty Parade by the Crop Tops https://thecroptops.bandcamp.com/album/werewolf

Local Positioning Systems "State Response" by Leber and Chesworth

Kill Your Lawn and Kick Your Fence! (Short Sting) by Tilde Joy and Amy Aednat Ciara

Guitar music interludes by Amy Aednat Ciara