On this show:
- We reflected on how collective efforts can lead to enriched queer community within regional areas.
- Noted that the previous day had been International Day of Lesbian Visibility; and having unintentionally included some (probably also unintentional) exclusive language taken from a prime explanatory website, took some time to reflect on the intersectional gender nature of being a lesbian.
- Madison, Atlas and our guest Lunar shared their lived experiences of being queer folk with disability, living in a queerphobic and ableist society. Reflections included
- how being queer and disabled can be conjoined, and then judged, by ableist people.
- the hazards of queer disable persons internalising the judgements of others.
- how ableist behaviour is generally considered unacceptable, but yet it persists.
- visable and invisable disability, and how attitudes toward them can differ.
- How pride in oneself as a queer person with lived experience in disability actually adds to the inherent value we already have, as people who exist in the world.
- Lunar shared some of her poetry; The Battle Within, and Gaze in the Mirror.
- We ruminated a little on the expense of coffee under late stage capitalism (and why some spoons have holes in them).
Community Links:
TGD Bookclub, 10 May, 1 - 2:30pm, Free Event, Thorne Harbour Health Building 200 Hoddle St, Abbottsford; and online.
Frooty Loops Meetup, 6 - 9pm, Every Second Sunday, Free Event, Little Foot Bar, 223 Barkly St, Footscray.
Identity Test, A Trans Existential Drama and Caberet, at Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne CBD. 7pm, 28th April to 3rd May; Tickets $39 standard, $35 concession.
Queer Multicultural Carnival, 7th June, 10am - 6pm. Victorian Pride Centre, Free Event (registration required).
