There are still many uphill battles for us and our families. Personally, I feel that it is my responsibility to aid those who are seen as less than or not equal to the rest of us who can blend is more easily. To call out racism, homophobia, and transphobia when and where I see it.
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Intersex Day of Solidarity | Finding My True Self
Posted on November 18 2020

Transgender Day of Remembrance | Coming Out - My Story
Posted on November 17 2020

Trans Parent Day | Not the world I dreamt of but better
Posted on October 24 2020

Intersex Awareness Day | You Are Not Alone
Posted on October 17 2020

I learned that I was intersex on October 31, 2019 at the age of 41. I always knew I was different and as a teenager I accepted the label of âlesbianâ because it seemed to be the best fit with the information I had at the time-- but I knew deeply that it was not the whole story. I have explored transitioning to male at various points during my adult life, but always decide against that option knowing that this would merely swap which half of myself was seen by the world and which was suppressed. What follows is the story of how I discovered I was a person who is intersex.
Asexual Awareness Week | Learning to Ace-cept Myself
Posted on October 12 2020

I was born an only child. I always felt the need to give my parents grandchildren. I planned out my wedding in middle school and picked out names for my children. That was what I was supposed to, right? Those were the things that I was supposed to want, right? As the only child that my parents had, it was my job to continue the bloodline and save us from extinction. I felt as though I had to have children, for the sake of my parents, for the sake of my ancestors, for the sake of my family. I was carrying so much weight on my 13 year-old shoulders.
International Lesbian Day | Connecting with the Lesbian community
Posted on September 27 2020

As a lesbian who came out at the age of 34, I had no experience with the LGBTQI+ community, at all. I grew up in a regional town, moved to an even smaller regional town when I was 28, and only found my feet once moving to Melbourne in March 2019. When I say Melbourne, I mean a leafy suburb that is very family focused. So even though I came out a few months after moving to âMelbourneâ, I was still unable to immerse myself in the queer culture.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day | Telling The Whole Story
Posted on September 22 2020

Pride season or otherwise, I love a good queer story. Itâs a central theme in the LGBTQIA+ experience â every âa-ha!â moment, turning point, faux pas, you name it â if itâs a tale of the queer journey, I am here for it.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day | Rewriting the script of bi+ belonging
Posted on September 15 2020

If youâre a bi+ person in an opposite-sex relationship, this situation may be all too familiar. You turn up to a queer event, hoping to meet some new people and fulfil a desperate need to belong, when the inevitable moment arrives: you must reveal your partnerâs pronoun. If youâre a âsheâ in a relationship with a âheâ (or vice versa), your queerness is immediately questioned. If youâre a cis woman with a femme appearance, or a cis man with a masc appearance, you could be treated with suspicion and even anger.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day | A Love Letter to My Identity
Posted on September 13 2020

Celebrate Bisexuality Day | Don't Worry, you're Bi enough
Posted on September 13 2020

Celebrate Bisexuality Day | The B Word
Posted on September 12 2020

Celebrate Bisexuality Day | Getting Bi in 2020
Posted on September 12 2020

Celebrate Bisexuality Day | Bi Your Side
Posted on September 12 2020

Kimmy grew up in a Wheatbelt country town 40 years ago, and says they first recognised they were âsame-sex attracted at the same time I was aware I was heterosexually attracted.â But in this town âthere was no such thing as bisexual.â
âGay was something that happened once a year in Sydney,â Kimmy says, âand violent homophobia was the norm.â
Wear It Purple Day | Live Your Truth
Posted on July 28 2020

International Non Binary People Day | Thinking Outside of the Closet
Posted on June 30 2020

Autistic Pride Day | Living Under A Double Rainbow : A Tale of Two Closets
Posted on June 03 2020

Throughout childhood I was always the outsider. Geeky, socially inappropriate, independent and protective of my freedom, the natural tendency to fit in didn't rule my life. And it's not because I'm a natural rebel. Nothing could be further from the truth. I mean, this was the 1980s and individualism was not yet in vogue.
Pride Month | Thoughts on Celebrating PRIDE
Posted on May 30 2020

Pansexual Visibility Day | The Pansexual Spectrum
Posted on May 17 2020

Pansexual Visibility Day | Hearts Not Parts
Posted on May 17 2020

The vast majority of people around the world are now familiar with the terms gay, lesbian, bi, and trans. Over many decades the familiar acronym that started as LGB has grown to LGBTQ+ (and other acronyms depending on where you are), but less is known about who the â+â represents. As we explore and learn more about ourselves and each other in our ever evolving and rapidly changing world, we coin new terms to include other forms of love and/or attraction (or lack thereof). That â+â is a small symbol with an enormous meaning, and among the many terms included with that little plus are pansexuals like me.
IDAHOBIT | The Barmanâs Tale
Posted on April 29 2020

Lesbian Visibility Day | Lesbian Visibility
Posted on April 11 2020

Transgender Day of Visibility | Demanding Visibility
Posted on April 05 2020

National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence
Posted on March 19 2020

Zero Discrimination Day | Always the Other
Posted on February 24 2020

Better Together Conference | Jan 2020 @ Melbourne
Posted on January 19 2020

Transgender Day of Remembrance | Aren't We Aware ?
Posted on November 16 2019

Transgender Awareness Week has rolled around once again. This internationally recognised LGBTQ event is a chance for transgender folks to make their struggles known. The week ends with Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual day to look back in horror, disgust and sadness at the lives of transgender people who've been taken from our world for living as their authentic selves.
Intersex Day of Solidarity | End Intersex Surgery â We Are Not Broken
Posted on November 05 2019

Trans Parent Day | Why Trans Parents Arenât Bad Parents
Posted on November 03 2019

Intersex Day of Solidarity | Intersex Changed My Life
Posted on October 27 2019

Intersex Awareness Day | Finding Community
Posted on October 24 2019

Asexual Awareness Week | The âAâ is for âAsexualâ!
Posted on October 19 2019

International Lesbian Day | Rebuilding the Lesbian Community
Posted on October 16 2019

Celebrate Bisexuality Day | Finding Community
Posted on September 16 2019

Wear It Purple Day : The unapologetic beacon for the invisible
Posted on July 30 2019

International Non-Binary People Day | On being Non-Binary
Posted on July 07 2019

Many donât understand how someone can be ânon-binaryâ. The term has become an umbrella for those of us who donât connect the genders we were assigned at birth, and donât connect with our opposite. And no, we canât âjust pick oneâ.
June is Pride Month: The Spirit of PRIDE
Posted on June 10 2019

The calendar has finally flipped over to June and we know what that means - itâs Pride Month. I have a complicated feelings towards this time of year. Admittedly, itâs not all that different from how I feel about Sydney Mardi Gras in many ways. As a bi person, I have felt excluded from Pride events more times than I can count. Iâm sick of giant corporations trying to convince us they actually care about LGBTQIA+ rights by selling things with rainbows on them. Iâm fed up with the cis-man, white, gay, able-bodied, neurotypical lens that is pushed in order to make the LGBTQIA+ community seem more palatable to straight people.
Pansexual Visibility Day | How to identify If you are Pansexual?
Posted on May 19 2019

IDAHOBIT | Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia
Posted on May 12 2019

International Transgender Day of Visibility : Visibility Is Equality
Posted on March 30 2019

National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
Posted on March 13 2019

Zero Discrimination Day
Posted on February 23 2019

Human Rights Day - The Wild Fires of an Hakean Heart
Posted on December 06 2018

The Increased Significance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance
Posted on November 18 2018

Transgender Day of Remembrance | Sheâs Got the Op Shop Blues
Posted on November 18 2018

Asexual Awareness Week | I am Valid, I am Asexual
Posted on October 21 2018

National Coming Out Day 2018
Posted on October 07 2018

When I was growing up, I didnât have a lot of friends that were boys. In fact I donât think I had a boy as a friend until I got to university and...well, Iâm still dating him. I did have a lot of female friends however, and from a fairly young age I started experimenting with girls (and not in a science lab, wearing white coats). At this point in my life I didnât know what gay or straight was. I didnât know the words for any of the things I was doing. I had a sense that it needed to be kept secret, that if anyone knew what we were doing with each other, weâd probably get in trouble. But that didnât stop us from doing everything we could think of.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day | Bored Straight People
Posted on September 23 2018

Celebrate Bisexuality Day | Bi Visibility Day
Posted on September 19 2018

The 23rd of September is International Bi Visibility Day, or to give it its official title, Celebrate Bisexuality Day. Itâs not widely known, let alone celebrated, by the greater LGBTIQA+ community. But every year there are more events being organised by bisexual+ (bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, queer and multi-gender attracted) people around the world.
Working Together to Prevent Suicide
Posted on September 10 2018
