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here isn’t enough space for can’t believe you fucked it as an you stop being such his year, as with ever year, Furthermore, an understanding of colonisation is necessary to understand the issues facing queer people today. If we understand gender and sex to be socially constructed, me to share just how much much as you did. Apart from snivelling little shit-heads you’ve proved yourself it becomes immediately apparent that our very identities, our subjectivities, the things that queers have fought so hard and so long to be recognised, are irrevocaby you disgust and anger me. being a bougie little jumped- pretending to be socialists vile homophobes, feckless shaped by colonisation and the constructions of the body that accompany it. Your racist, xenophobic, up marketing campaign run while you run fucking jockeys for the ruling class, TIslamophobic, homophobic, Iby instagrammers and aimed at Cprison camps on Manus & Nauru. Tabsolute scum of the earth. transphobic and sexist assholes don’t nightclub managers, I did have Editors-in-chief even deserve my time. You’ve put vague if stupid hopes that you might t’s such a disappointment in an don’t believe it’s worth talking Peter Burrell-Sander, Steff Leinasars, Editorial my communities in extreme danger just have been inconsequential. age of the DSA and Momentum to you anymore, begging you Klementine Burrell-Sander This has mostly been a Thanks also to the officers of ACAR and I am sincerely worried for my doing good works overseas that for scraps of mercy. The idea week of panic for me. and those who run the Collective, to own safety and the safety of so many Instead, you caused a bunch of we here in Australia have been that you’ve taken credit for Editorial Collective I’ve been paralysed by the fear of Enviro and loose organisers across other marginalised people thanks to fucking trouble and I hope you’re Ileft with lousy, uninspiring labor ISSM is sickening. I think we should Jazz lyn Breen, Layla Mhk, Elllie Wilson putting out this week’s edition of the campus, who helped shape both you. You can get in the bin thanks. all cursed as long as you walk leader who promises tidbits while maybe stop waiting for you to give Honi Soit. So much good work has this paper and the beliefs that went your treacherous path of capitalist pretending to Marxist principes. us the things all people deserve. apologism. Contributors been done over the years within into it. Hayden Moon, Lukas, Klementine Burrell- these pages that it’s hard to feel that big fuck you from a e want a night-life o better - Joe Hill on’t try and put a veneer Sander, Grace Bowskill, Wilson Huang, I could have much to offer as far as Finally, thanks to The Whelk, gender whisperer. for EVERYBODY. on your brutality, it’s not Katherine Porritt-Fraser, Ange Hall, Maddie expanding upon it. Eviemath, Frowner, Reclusive - Anon. E. Mouse working. - Anonymous Clark, Anthony McManus, Katarzyna Wagner, Novelist Thomas Pynchon A W D D Jodie Jackson, Mohammaed Awad, Justin For several years now, I’ve eagerly and a dozen others whose sage Brown, Connor Parissis awaited to release of the queer commentary has also helped autonomous edition of Honi. As inform me. Metafilter.com, it’s old- Hope Through Fear Artists pleasurable as the regular paper is, fashioned, but has a few people who Steff Leinasars, Jazzlyn Breen, EllieStephenson, the opportunity to hear directly know what they’re talking about. Peter Burrell-Sander seeks the optimism of radical negativity Alexa Potts, Andrew Herman, Oliver Mackie from a subset of voices is always The future looks bleak to me. Fascists not suffice because it is immoral, set on destroying everything they human being, equal to any other. Pawson invaluable, and the autonomous So, moving on from thanks, I hope on one side, spouting vitriolic and and unprincipled, and it will not value: whiteness, strict gender roles, Furthermore, I will not waver on editions of Honi serve exactly that some people can gain some small hateful rhetoric about me and suffice because we are staring down patriarchal heterosexuality and class demanding the same rights and On Cultural Marxism role. Check out ACAR next week, measure of joy from reading this mine, about queers and immigrants, a climate apocalypse. itself. respect for my friends and comrades, Contents Disability and Indigenous next paper. If I’ve erred in the colours, in about Jews and Muslims, about regardless of exactly why they’ve women existing and anything else We are facing down a challenge that They’re mostly right about my been marginalised by our society. semester. the image placement, or the like, so It’s worth taking a moment to will require human co-operation on intentions, but that’s because those 1 Cover they happen to take issue with. acknowledge that as fun as it be it. a global scale beyond any project changes are necessary if we want a I’m not going to tell people how they 2 Contents is to play around with cultural Fortunately, however, the very On the other, we’re faced with ever attempted before. We have but better world. can make radical change happen. nature of the beast is that as editors I do have some measure of regret a decade until the damage spreads There are dozens of groups active in 3 Election Section marxism as a concept, in the liberals. Small l, that is, the face of the inane ramblings we are not required to invent all the that there is not more of a coherent adherents of the ideology of far beyond our ability to curtail it, Radical negativity accepts that there Sydney alone around myriad issues, 4 Queer Anti-Capitalism of fascists worldwide which good works that have filled these theme holding the paper together. liberalism. While I’m not quite if that long. That’s not for a perfect is conflict in the world. Forces, and with differing strategies and methods comfortable with endorsing a Social world, but merely a habitable one. the people shaped by those forces, are all being employed. I merely want 5 Let’s Talk About Fear pages, merelly request, collate and As it was, we received submissions grossly mischaracterise the Fascism style view of liberalism, I set against eachother, and the liberal to take this opportunity to say that 6 Queers In History nature of academia and queer edit them. I do sincerely hope that across a broad range of topics, and as do believe that liberals will choose This, unfortunately, is the situation delusion that we need only discuss you’ll know you’re somewhere cullture alike, it’s a concept I’ve done an adequate job at this a result I hope instead that this paper we are in. The political challenge is matters enough to discover the root where you can do good when they’re 7 A Week B4 Mardis Gras their own comfort over change, and with real and dangerous task. represents something of a snapshot choose fascism over an alternative greater than ever. of our problems does naught but aid not trying to appease our enemies. 8 Stonewall and the GLF connotations. of the queer gestalt, a sample of that threatens capitalist property the right. I’d like to give a huge thank-you what’s occupying the thoughts of relations. Some may be questioning how this Because in the seemingly miserable 9 No Pride In Pride Week relates to queerness. Well, firstly, as It’s darker, scarier world if we fog that a belief in the inevitability to the Spice for Honi team and all queers around the University of 10 Gendered Bodies The people who complain Perhaps, in another era, this would I’m fond of saying, I and every other accept that conflict is necessary, of conflict brings, there is a beacon about cultural marxism are, their help in getting this together. Sydney. queer person I know lives on Earth. even an essential part of politics. It shining through. 11a Grand Tapestry not be of such great concern. We knowingly or not, spreading Beyond the requirements of duty, could work at slowly reforming I’ve looked into alternatives, but the brings into question much of how 11b Romeo anti-semitic tropes about they provided training and advice, At very least, we have included the system, at making incremental atmosphere just doesn’t suit me. we’re told to be good people - by A light of hope and promise, that we gains decade by decade. Sure, compromising, by de-escalating, by can have a better world, a more free 12 The Problem of Theology a world controlled by a and generally could not have been puzzles thanks to El Snake, so it’s shadowy cabal which controls more helpful in facilitating this good for something eh :) countless millions would die Secondly, it is plain to see in the words seeking accord. world. Some people will have to give before their circumstances could be of reactionaries how we fit into their up some, and it’s only achievable if 13 Queer Musicians week-long takeover of their paper our culture by a process of world. Degenerates and aberrations, Regrettably, however, I think many we recognise that, but it can be done. 14 Campus Collectives improved, but that’s a small price inculcation and fear. and office. - Peter Burrell-Sander to pay for stability in many’s eyes. at best considered mentally ill with will understand the impossibility of We can succeed, and we can get 15 Half-In, Half-Out the disease of postmodern Marxism some compromises. I will not waver through this. and at worst intentional deviants on my right to be considered a full 16 More Than Survival We must reject this conception It will not, however, suffice. It will and face the horrifying 17 Exploring my Bidentity reality: there is no cabal. Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University 18 I Never Said Goodbye of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. 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Maddie Clark thinks queers Let’s Talk About Fear should be anti-capitalist Lukas (He/Him, They/Them) female portable toilets. I still can’t figure care of things, and then I wait, again, for fear out why. silence. Then I wash my hands as fast as I noun can and leave as fast as I can. If I don’t have 1. an unpleasant emotion caused by Moving onto public bathrooms, ever since time to wash my hands, I have to use hand If you identify as LGBTIQ+ there is no excuse for not also being anti-capitalist. Capitalism has not only created the oppression of LGBTIQ+ people, the threat of danger, pain, or harm. I’ve started to look more androgynous/ sanitiser that I keep with me. but continuously seeks to undermine wins for equality and acceptance. It is only through struggle that queer people have won what rights they Synonyms: terror, fright, dread, distress, masculine, the idea of using public have now, and it is only through smashing capitalism that queer people around the globe will be liberated. trepidation, etc. bathrooms has filled me with fear and More recently, I have started to use what is anxiety. Do I use the men’s bathroom often the only unisex bathroom available, Let’s take a step back and look at the origins of LGBTIQ+ oppression. Cisgender people quite often say that because I’m a man? But what if a cisgender and also what is probably the safest option The oppression of queer people can be clearly linked to the rise of capitalism. Never before, either in pre-class societies or in feudalism, has ‘deviancy’ from heterosexuality and cisgenderism been so vilified, outlawed and demonised. In fact, the label “homosexuality” didn’t even exist they are fearful of transgender people. man takes offense to a transgender man available to me: the accessible bathroom. before the 19th century. Of course, there were other words used to imply same sex attraction before this, but the idea that it was unnatural or a Cisgender people say that we are unstable using the same bathroom as him, and I experience chronic pain, and my mental sickness only came about in the late 1800s during the Industrial Revolution. or unpredictable. Cisgender people say decides to harass me, intimidate me, or illnesses would also qualify me as disabled. that we are “dangerous” or are “confusing”. even assault me? I’ll tell you what happens, However, since I don’t look disabled, I still The vilification of LGBTIQ+ people was created in order to form and naturalise the nuclear family. You see, during the Industrial Revolution the thanks to Hayden Moon offering to share get passive-aggressive “why-the-hell- capitalists had a problem. They found that if you make children work fourteen hour days and you don’t give them very much to eat, they will In response, I’ll tell you a bit about me: his experiences. were-you-in-there” glares, or just confused probably die. The solution to this problem was the nuclear family. A unit of people who feel responsible for one another and who will not only clothe, feed, and school children, but have more children (and thus some more relatively healthy workers for the capitalist). To do this, they not my name is Lukas, and I’m almost 21. I’m staring as people try to figure out what my only gave out minimal benefits for those who did live together as family units, but they demonised those who did not conform to the nuclear a fairly short person, who like reading, While using the public bathrooms that disability is. family model. writing, Dungeons and Dragons, Pokémon, are on campus at USyd, Hayden tells me nature/animals, and I want to be a vet, that he has been verbally harassed, by And what about the transphobic graffiti As Mary McIntosh wrote in 1968: “In the first place, it helps to provide a clear-cut, publicised and recognisable threshold which is why I’m studying here. I have being called a tr*nny and a f*ggot by other that is literal writing on the wall? It’s proof between permissible and impermissible behaviour several great friends in Sydney who I am students. He tells me that other students of just how hated us trans folk are just for … Second, the labelling serves to segregate the deviant from others … The creation of a specialised, beyond grateful that I was lucky enough to at this university have also threatened existing. On this campus alone, transphobic despised and punished role of homosexual keeps the bulk of meet. I am also a transgender man. him with rape and murder, all because cisgender people have scrawled on society pure in rather the same way that the similar treatment of he dared to use a public bathroom as a bathroom walls that transgender people some kinds of criminals helps keep the rest of society law-abiding”. There are many cisgender people who transgender person. He has also told me should be gassed, should be exterminated, The family and its role in sexual conformity has always been present just read that last sentence and are now about seeing violently transphobic graffiti and should commit suicide. Other in class societies, but the modern form of the family and its particular suddenly disgusted or repulsed by me, in at least several of the public bathrooms transphobic cisgender people have torn demonisation of LGBTIQ+ people today can be directly linked to the rise of capitalism. no matter what else we may share in on campus. Given all of this and more, the down and scratched up stickers that were common. Some cisgender people would men’s bathroom is off-limits to me unless put up in USyd’s bathrooms with a simple To show just how different the modern oppression of LGBTIQ+ people is, we can hate to be near me, for fear of me exposing I want gamble with my safety every single slogan of “We all need to pee”. look at the various ways in which sexuality and gender were conceptualized in pre-class them or others to the “confusion” that is a time I just need to pee. and feudal societies. In egalitarian societies with no class divisions and very fluid forms of transgender man living his life. Some think This is what trans people face with just marriage and parenting, same-sex attraction and gender fluidity have been recorded. For that I deserve to be attacked, assaulted, using a public bathroom. I haven’t even example, some First Nations people of North America have been found to have had an arrangement whereby a young man or woman who showed a preference for the tasks of the opposite raped, abused, and even murdered because begun to talk about anything else. If I did, sex, could, with the approval of the elders, be initiated into that gender role. They could assume I am transgender. Others will ignore a this article would be many more pages all the tasks of that sex and take a husband or wife in that role, without social disapproval. situation where a someone is being yelled long. We have to endure a much higher risk at, attacked, or discriminated against of rape, murder, assault, abuse of all kinds, Even in feudal society this can be seen. In Japan, during the feudal period from the fourteenth to the nineteenth because they are transgender. suicide, mental illness, and so many more century, sexual relations between male samurai warriors were part of the chivalric code of bushido. In other ancient challenges than any cisgender person will societies like Ancient Greece and Egypt the whole conception of sexuality was different to today. In these societies the division of sexuality was based on the ‘passive’ and ‘active’ roles with no conception of ‘homosexuality’ or ‘heterosexuality’. Even I’m lucky I have yet to face transphobia ever face solely for being cisgender. You during the early years of Christian hegemony, sinful indulgence was condemned without targeting a particular ‘type’ of sexual like that. However, that is only because I will never be treated as less than human, orientation. It was any sexuality that was not for procreative purposes that was condemned and seen as wayward. In fact, the have started to truly live as myself just this or have your human rights be “debated” word “sodomy” was used to describe a variety of sexual sins including incest, promiscuity, adultery, and sex with nuns. It was not deemed year, even though I have known for years solely because you are cisgender. inherently sinful until the rise of capitalism in the late 18th century. that I’m transgender. I also plan to start hormone replacement therapy this year, as Now, rewind. So we see that our oppression as it exists today is intrinsically linked to the rise of capitalism. It only makes sense, then, for all queers to be anti- capitalist. well as coming out as transgender to more and more people. The more I transition, the Fear is “an unpleasant emotion caused You should also be anti-capitalist because it’s only through struggling against the system that queer people have gained some semblance of more I’ll become even more androgynous, by the threat of danger, pain, or harm”. visibility, acceptance and equality. In fact, when the family unit was being created in the 19th century the OG Socialists (the Utopian Socialists) and eventually masculine, than I currently Cisgender people like to claim that they are were some of the first to critique the concept of the family. Followers of Saint-Simonianism (a strand of Utopian Socialism) believed in a future am. And of course, talk of transition scared of transgender people. But how can where women would be equal to men and there would be “free Love”. Others like Charles Fourier envisioned a socialist future where large, raises perhaps one of the most-discussed they be scared? I am legitimately fearful of communal ‘phalansteries’ would replace individual family units. Famously, Marx and Engels proclaimed their belief in the abolition of the family as part and parcel of a socialist revolution. “controversies” regarding transgender cisgender people, especially those who are people: bathrooms. By Steff Leinasar not queer, because any one of them could More recently, it has only been through radical struggle that LGBTIQ+ activists have won civil rights. The famous Stonewall Riots, inspired by possibly decide to harass, assault, or even the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War movements, sparked the fight for equality and acceptance. The fight for marriage equality in Australia was Cisgender people get very… strange So then, do I use the women’s bathroom? murder me just because I’m transgender. only won through mass protests, widespread public pressure and the dedication of activists who organised for over a decade to achieve their goals. about bathrooms. For example: I was at a Sometimes, if I really can’t wait until I get You, likely-cisgender reader, are not scared Christmas Carols concert last December, home. But I also look too unlike a girl to of transgender people. While we have come far since the executions of ‘deviants’ in the late 1800s, there is still so much for us to win. Capitalism remains alive and kicking, and its dependence upon the family unit which is the basis for homophobia and transphobia means that these oppressions also still and the portable toilets had male and not raise eyebrows and often get looks, exist. We can all remember the outrage from the government and media when the LGBTIQ+ anti-bullying program ‘Safe Schools’ was released, female signs on them, signs which whispers, and snide remarks. What if I’m We do not scare you. It is the other way and then promptly defunded, as well as Mark Latham’s transphobic assertion that trans people shouldn’t be allowed to self-identity. Beyond cisgender people were actually largely on my period (which is a unique hell as a around. Australia, LGBTIQ+ people are also vilified. In many countries being queer is still illegal, while the rise of the far right worldwide has made obeying. I ended up picking a random toilet transgender man) and need to change my targeting LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities commonplace. For instance, in France last year, homophobic attacks increased by 15% since the that was free, because I was not waiting in pad or tampon? The women’s bathroom previous year. line for 10 minutes due to arbitrary signs. is the only one that’s 100% guaranteed to These upsetting events showthat while queer people can win significant rights, with much effort, under capitalism, it is impossible for us all to These portable toilets were all exactly the have sanitary bins, so here’s what I do: I win liberation until capitalism has been smashed. It’s so important to see that LGBTIQ+ oppression does not originate from ordinary humans, same. They were all small, all had bad toilet wait outside the women’s bathroom until or fear of the other, considering that queers have been part of human communities for millenia. It is only due to the ‘divide and rule’ nature of paper, and all had a not-so-faint stench, there aren’t many people in there. Then I capitalism that it has been systematically branded as. yet they were still divided into male and rush in, head for the first cubicle I see, take 4 5

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Queers in History: A Colourful Past A Week Before Mardi Gras Klementine Burrell-Sander looks into the past. Justin Brown went to Mardis Gras Regardless of the selective blindness of you strove to make babies with someone of the When Anne tired of the playboy life, she settled our history books, and the insistence of opposite sex. down with wealthy heiress Ann Walker in what A week before Mardi Gras, I was on my way what I had to do. The following week, I went to my first Mardi Gras to send her a message conservatives to the contrary, queers behaviour has largely been recognised as the first lesbian home from a movie with friends. As the bus has been around pretty much since humans started to cruise down Oxford Street, the - we, the LGBTQ+ community, are not going have. Despite what has been perceived as a marriage in Britain. The two sapphic lovers also woman behind me started to rant. It started anywhere. huge increase in those identifying as part of Homosexuality was definitely also recognised in went to visit the widely-recognised ‘Ladies of with her complaining about the “disgusting” the queer commun ity in the last few decades, this period, albeit mostly as an ungodly sin. Some Llangollen’, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, gays “ruining the area”, and gradually grew She said “The gays should be lined up Oxford even a cursory review of history reveals that scholars believe that marriage in the clergy was who lived together as a couple. Though these ladies into her making an appalling incitement Street and shot” and ”ISIS should drop a bomb being gay, trans or non-binary is really nothing during mardi gras. Go ISIS”. Might be a bit too encouraged in the 11th and 12th centuries precisely were known all over Britain for their unusual of violence against the LGBT community. new. Of course, there’s a few examples which “The gays should be lined up Oxford Street violent to put in, but it gives it context.) are bandied about frequently, like the ancient because of the abundance of priests turning to living situation and their choice to often wear and shot,” she said, before escalating to the Greeks with their catamites, but largely sinful sodomy as a substitute for heterosexual masculine attire, it is not certain that the women suggestion that the Mardi Gras parade should Mardi Gras is sometimes characterised as speaking, our history books fail us when it relationships. Female same-sex love is not nearly were in a sexual relationship. be bombed. This left me with a dilemma: do big street party. That’s not wrong, but it’s comes to depicting the queer communities so well documented as that of males, perhaps due I out myself to a hostile stranger, risking my not the whole story either. Mardi Gras is so and individuals who were very much a part much more. It’s a safe space where we can to the mediaeval understanding of sex as purely personal safety to confront them about how of the past world, whether their communities “Queerness is a part of our collective history – even if the what they’re saying is not even remotely be ourselves without consequence, where were accepting of their lifestyles or not. the penetrative act. This has been suggested as the straight white cis men who write our history books and acceptable, or do I just try to get away from it we can show each other the affection that reason for which there are so few records of female- as soon as I can and live with knowing that I we can have trouble showing in normal life. female sex – one of the only examples comes from make our period dramas haven’t bothered to include it. ” stood by and did nothing? It’s a place where an increasing number of This lack of representation can be attributed Katherina Hetzeldorfer in 1477, who was accused allies celebrate our community with us. It’s us to many factors, including the incredibly telling the world we are who we are, and we’re of “using a [wooden] instrument” in order to In short, it is clear that there were people in I did end up getting off the bus as soon as Western-centric perspective of many ‘standard’ the past living in a way which doesn’t align possible, but the experience left me knowing proud of it. With this show of visibility, we’re history texts which often completely neglect “have her manly way” with another woman. telling all the homophobes and transphobes with the straight cis-normativity that is so I had to do something. The following week, Every time you casually show how queer you or oversimplify any mention of non-Western However, there is also some evidence of lesbian- often considered the default of the human I went to my first Mardi Gras to send her a that no matter how much hate they throw in culture and the queer identities which may are is a step closer to equality, whether you’re our direction, no matter how many threats like relationships in this period, including that experience. However, from our modern message. We – the LGBTQ+ community – holding hands with your significant other, exist within them, like the hijira of India or of Elizabeth Etchingham and Agnes Oxenbridge, context, it can be hard to determine whether aren’t going anywhere. they make, they cannot scare us away - We’ll the maohi of Tahitian culture. Then, too, there giving them a pash or talking about your keep standing strong together and we will not who were immortalised on a brass memorial which an individual whose actions appear to fit a crush. Some straight people might complain is the issue of alternative perceptions of what queer narrative was acting this way as part of Mardi Gras is sometimes described as just accept their bigotry. constitutes being ‘queer’. Obviously, queer depicts both women facing each other in semi- we’re shoving our gayness down their throats. a larger tradition of queer culture, or if their one big street party. That’s not entirely wrong, If they do, just remember that they’ve been is a relatively new term, having gone from profile, indicating a certain degree of intimacy personal identity was a more revolutionary but it’s certainly not the whole story. Mardi This has had such a big impact on me a neutral adjective to a derogatory slur to a doing the same to us with their heterosexuality personally. Going from a boy’s high school even if the exact nature of their relationship refusal to accept societal norms. The limited Gras is so much more than just a party, it’s a since time immemorial. Rather than hiding term reclaimed with pride by many non-cis remains unknown. collection of queer history I’ve described safe space where queers can be themselves rife with homophobia to an LGBT-friendly and non-hetero people in the course of about our queerness from them, we need to display university filled with queer role models has today is only the tip of the iceberg: if you’re without consequence and show each other the it loudly until they get used to it. We need to 150 years. Similarly, most of the terms that interested in history, there is so much more affection that we might not otherwise display given me the courage to be proud of being gay, now comprise the LGBTQIA* community let them know that we’re queer and we have to explore who I am and to come out to an to be found, from transgender people in in normal life. It’s a place where an increasing always been here. were either non-existent or had considerably Queen Christina of Sweden, who ruled from 1632 to 18th century Europe to the gay pornography number of allies can come to celebrate our increasing number of people. I hope that in different meanings and associations in the 1654, is a well-known as a monarch who renounced produced during the Tang Dynasty in China. community with us. It’s us showing the world doing so, I can inspire people in the same way past. This means that it’s effectively impossible gender norms. Not only did she frequently dress in Queerness is a part of our collective history – that we are who we are, and we’re proud of it. I’ve been inspired. to categorise historical personalities within men’s clothes and adopt masculine mannerisms, even if the straight white cis men who write “Going from a boy’s high our own modern context – we can only look at our history books and make our period dramas With this show of visibility, we’re telling the Every time you casually show how queer you what the records tell us of their behaviour, and Christina was noted as having ‘masculine features’ haven’t bothered to include it. homophobes and transphobes that we will school rife with homophobia to are is a step closer to equality, whether you’re recognise elements that correspond with our and being unusually hairy. She was also suspected keep standing strong together and will not holding hands with your significant other, own understanding of queers today. However, of having had a romantic relationship with at accept their bigotry – no matter how much an LGBT-friendly university giving them a pash or talking about your in the interests of queer recognition, allow me least one woman, Ebba Sparre, who she referred hate they throw at us, and no matter how crush. Some people might complain we’re to call to your attention just a brief selection of filled with queer role models shoving our gayness down their throats. Just to as her ‘bedfellow’, and potentially others. While many cowardly threats they make, they cannot historical accounts of queerness. scare us. Visibility is such an important part has given me the courage to be remember that they’ve been doing the same to Christina herself wrote that she was “neither of our day-to-day life, not just as a statement us since time immemorial. Rather than hiding Male nor Hermaphrodite”, and historians have Podcast Recommendations against hate, but as a message of hope. 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And rife with homophobia to an LGBT-friendly here I was faced with a dilemma - do I out often shunned and viewed as unnatural, their - TRASHFUTURE university filled with queer role models has There are many reports of homosexuality and myself to a hostile stranger, and risk violence existence was certainly not denied. In fact, there given me the courage to be proud of being gay, other forms of queerness from the 19th century. featuring @raaleh,@HKesvani, by confronting them about how what they are appears to have been strict theological rules that to explore who I am and to come out to an saying is not even remotely ok, or do I just try While there are some notable, oft-quoted examples @milo_edwards & @inthesedeserts increasing number of people. I hope that in forced intersex individuals to choose to live as to get away from it as soon as I can, knowing I of celebrities, like Oscar Wilde with his famous doing so, I can inspire people in the same way either male or female, depending either on their stood by and did nothing. I did end up getting speech on ‘The Love That Dare Not Speak Its - Waterdeep Mountain High I’ve been inspired. off that bus as soon as I could, but I knew own choice or a decision made for them at birth – Name’, or the generally sexually wild Lord Byron, in this way, the Mediaeval period isn’t so far from featuring Nic Sampson, Alice there was plenty of same-sex love happening a Snedden, Paul Williams, Ray the modern attitude adopted by many parents lot more quietly under the rule of a queen who O’Leary and Brynley Stent. of intersex children. The fact of their existence famously declared that female sexual relationships is supported by detailed explanations from were ‘impossible’. Poor Vicky - clearly she didn’t theologians on the expected sexual intercourse of know about folks like Anne Lister, who was so busy so-called hermaphrodites: the Church didn’t seem sleeping with other women that she had to keep to care which sex you identified with, as long as track of them with a diary written in secret code. 6 7 FRANTZ FANON ELIZABETH ANDERSON

Stonewall and the GLF Today, there are many lessons that these methods alone are bound to fail. us to confront it through protest. Grace Bowskill knows we can learn from the radical struggles of the past we who want to fight discrimination The campaign for marriage equality can learn from the radical struggles in Australia confirmed the way to Though we have made much progress The 28th of June this year will mark 50 there were so beautiful – they’ve lost seasoned activists in the riot’s wake of those who came before us. win is through mass mobilisation. since the Stonewall riots, our rights years since the Stonewall riots, an event that wounded look that fags all had who gave expression to this more Activists took on the fighting attitude are once again under attack. We face which represented a tipping point in 10 years ago.” militant mood.” Stonewall would not We must be anti-capitalist. of radicals that had come before us – different challenges, but we can look the struggle for LGBTQI equality. feature so prominently in the history Capitalism is not merely an economic rather than asking nicely, we hit the to the radical activists of the past to The riots radically accelerated the The LGBTQI community could of gay liberation if it weren’t for the system – it is a social and political streets in our thousands and made guide us in our fight today. gay liberation movement in America not have been unaffected by the radical activist groups that came out system that rests on the twin pillars our demand impossible to refuse. and internationally, and shaped momentous political upheavals that of it. of exploitation and oppression. the politics of a new generation of had rocked the world in the years Capitalism saw the emergence of Finally, the generation after Stonewall activists. There are many lessons we leading up to the riots. Throughout Stonewall marked a turning point LGBTQI discrimination alongside saw the need to be involved in can learn from these radical struggles. the 60s the world had seen decisive in the fight against LGBTQI the establishment of the nuclear activism. The fury of the spontaneous struggles for women’s rights and discrimination. family. In 1970, the Chicago chapter riots would have fizzled into nothing Located in the heart of Greenwich racial equality, and anti-capitalist of the GLF wrote in their newspaper: had it not been for the militant mood Village, the Stonewall Inn was movements accompanied by the Oppression had to be fought, and the “Many of us have understood that our that the activists took on coming out popular among LGBTQI youth biggest general strikes in history fight had to be coordinated. The need struggle cannot succeed without a of the experience. because it allowed same-sex until that point. The importance of to get organised was evident to the fundamental change in society which dancing, something that was usually these struggles in cementing the new generation of activists. will put the source of power (means Today the far right is growing all considered disorderly and so grounds militant mood of the activists cannot of production) in the hands of the over the world, and homophobia for arrest. The Stonewall Inn was be understated. An organizing meeting was called people who at present have nothing…” and transphobia are key tenets of described as “a bar for people who by local activists in the days after A struggle for true liberation must their ideology. In Australia, they were too young, too poor or too much The progress that had been made on the riots, and from this meeting take on capitalism. Anything less is have continued to grow and gain to get in anywhere else.” other fronts undoubtedly emboldened emerged the Gay Liberation Front. not enough. confidence because of consistent the LGBTQI community to fight The GLF took its name from the accommodation to their views by There have been many theories for their rights. Life for LGBTQI South Vietnamese Liberation Front, Secondly, the way to win demands both Labor and the Liberals. Since advanced attempting to explain why people in American society remained then fighting the US government in is not through voting or lobbying. our insipid politicians have shown a routine police raid sparked riots viciously repressive. People could Vietnam. From its inception, the GLF History has shown again and again they have no interest in standing up outside the Stonewall on June 28th, be arrested if they were not wearing was far ahead of the old gay liberation that attempts to win demands via to the bigotry of the right, it is up to but none have been agreed upon. three items of clothing “appropriate” organisations. The activists wanted Whatever the impetus, the crowd to their gender. Homosexual acts were to confront not only homophobia, on that night began to resist when considered grounds for firing, and but also the whole oppressive, No Pride in Pride Week police started arresting patrons. One sex between consenting adults of the imperialist system. Activist Jim journalist at the scene described same gender was punishable by life Fouratt compared the attitude of the Connor Parissis Doesn’t Think Rainbows Are Enough how the mood of the crowd, initially in prison. Illinois was the only state older LGBTQI activists to that of festive, suddenly became furious. in America where homosexuality the younger generation, stating: “We As I stroll down Eastern Avenue Or if I was really feeling quite lavish homelessness; three times more Onlookers began throwing bottles was not explicitly outlawed. As one were a nightmare to them. They were clutching a pride week themed this Pride Week, I had the option likely to experience depression, half and beer cans, eventually forcing the legal expert put it, in the 60s “the committed to being nice, acceptable coffee cup in my hand on the way to attend the annual Glitter Gala, of all transgender Australians have police to barricade themselves inside homosexual was…smothered by law.” status quo Americans, and we were to class, I cannot help but remain at $45-65 per ticket depending on attempted suicide; the list of real the bar. The police deputy on the not; we had no interest at all in being critical of pride campaigns that exist your ACCESS membership status. It issues that demand discussion and scene recalled, “There was never any Prior to Stonewall, the gay liberation acceptable.” purely for some perverted notion of is almost unarguable that the USU address. But you don’t hear about this equality clout. Since the marriage seeks to turn Pride Week into a during Pride Week. You only hear time that I felt more scared than I felt movement had been characterized equality plebiscite, its been a race, moneymaking venture, reportedly not about the rainbow ice cream mocha on that night.” by its emphasis on fitting into After some debate, the GLF took the one of which corporation can show liaising with the universities Queer pieces and pride-themed coffee cups. broader society. In 1969, the first position that it should be involved how accommodating and chill they Action Collective, but rather just The initial riot lasted 45 minutes, but lesbian rights group in America, the in struggles around a wide range are with the LGBT+ community, giving them the crumbs to conduct a It really is quite a shame. 2019 marks for the next few hours the LGBTQI Daughters of Bilitis, was still urging of issues. The activists saw that while doing little to nothing for the chalking on Eastern Avenue. the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall community - and the University of riots, and with marriage equality community taunted the police in the its members “to stop the breeding the struggles for gender and racial Sydney Union is no exception. I can sympathise with new LGBT+ passed, now is the time to start the streets around the bar with chants of defiance toward society” and to equality, for workers rights and students who would feel a huge sense conversation on transgender rights. and violence. This pattern continued exhibit “outward conformity” in its against capitalism, were intrinsically It seemed Pride Week was rather one of comfort seeing rainbow colours Weeks out from a federal election, we nightly until the 2nd of July, when newspaper. The riots changed this. linked to the fight for LGBTQI large advertisement for USUEats, spread across campus. I can only should be diverting our money, energy police finally gave up trying to regain The rage that had been suppressed liberation. In an interview for an which was supposedly meant to have reminisce how it influenced me, and resources into the Safe Schools me ‘embracing the rainbow’ with first attending a campus seemingly program, and removing religious control of the area. All told, around for so long finally exploded. underground magazine, The Rat, a special pride edition of the USU so open to celebrating queer pride. exceptions for discrimination. But, 2,000 people were involved. GLF activists stated: “We identify food truck, where I could purchase 3 Yet beneath the cosy, warm feeling as long as USU board members As socialist Sherry Wolf writes: ourselves with all the oppressed: the rainbow ice cream mocha pieces for that rainbow flags might leave in continue to move further towards The victory of one of the most “What separates the Stonewall Riots Vietnamese struggle, the third world, $7.50 – a bargain I’m sure. Or perhaps your tummy lies a far more sinister the right, any future Pride Week will oppressed groups in American society from all previous gay activism was the blacks, the workers...all those on the Wednesday, I could have scheme. forever turn away from the real issues otherwise emptied my wallet with that need addressing and towards the over the cops had a profound effect. not merely the unexpected nights- oppressed by this rotten, dirty, vile, the Pride Themed Monthly Markets, Pride events like this intentionally pretty and chromatic food you can After the riots, gay beatnik poet Allen long defiance in the streets, but the fucked-up capitalist conspiracy.” and bought myself a limited edition, ignore the fact that queer youth consume to forget your problems. Ginsberg wrote: “You know, the guys conscious mobilization of new and pride themed, frank green keep-cup. are twice as likely to experience 8 9 David Graeber Antonio Gramsci OPINION ANALYSIS

Gendered Bodies Art by Oliver Mackie Pawson The Grand Tapestry

Katarzyna Wagner explores bodies and gender. by Anthony McManus

How does the relationship between tied to the social, cultural and political Fantasy has been a treacherous place for me. Recently, providing shade from the stark sun above. We’d sit to march on. gender and the body change as the milieu in which acts of performativity I’ve had this recurring fascination with the possibility there for hours, discussing everything from the realism individual loses bodily autonomy? occur, the concept of gender itself of my being adopted; that my parents, who have raised of Madame Bovary to the changing politics of the I can’t stay in my fantasy forever. Jean-Jacques Conceptions of gender are projected begins to break down in contexts me over these past twenty years, who have fed me, world around us, and then to the mundanities which Deschamps does not exist. I am not an adopted child. onto bodies according to socially where regulatory ideals that categorise clothed me, done everything in their power to love fill our days and make them grander than the tragedies I am my father’s son. I am just me. My reality is my constructed categories based on the sex different types of gendered behavior me and make me a better person, that these people of theatre. Jean-Jacques would be gay too, a seasoned current existence. My father isn’t the literature-loving, binary. As feminist theories of gender are not strongly present. are not my real parents. And I love it. I love this weird veteran in all matters pertaining to homosexuality – gay French man of my heart’s desire. My father doesn’t have questioned and analysed this fantasy, this Shakespearean drama. I’d take some DNA from the history of LGBTQ+ rights to the desire to find read the classics, or any novel for that matter, preferring binary concept, bodies which do not It has been proposed that since deliberate test and discover that my real father was a Frenchman the one, the right one, he’d know it all. He’d be there the buzzing solace of television to the comfort a book. align with this notion have attracted repetition of particular practices creates named Jean-Jacques Deschamps, and that he was for me, helping it through me all, showing me what he My father is not a trilingual Frenchman, cycling his way both recognition and contention. a space for certain conceptions of the dream father I had always wanted. Every day, he knew of the world. to a university to deliver thought-provoking lectures gender, then theoretically there should would venture out from his apartment in the heart but rather a monolingual accountant who guzzles his There exist many types of bodies that also exist a space where, by a different Fantasies are fun like that. You can get lost in them, do not conform to the social structures combination of actions, there could exist of the Neuilly-sur-Seine district of Paris on his chic way through a tank of petrol every three days. My loses control is seen as ‘transgressing bicycle, transporting himself toward the heart of the let them to grow into grand illustrations. They can be father is no all-knowing gay man, but a man who would which uphold socio-cultural discourses; a different gender. Scholars argue that canvases which encompass great spaces filled with bodies can also transition between gender is always constructed through against itself’ and becoming a sinful city where he would lecture at the Sorbonne, of course. prefer that gay people weren’t real, or at least that his thing, unable to be placed within the Discoursing fluently in three different languages, he the bright luminescence of colour, a kaleidoscope of son wasn’t one. My father is the exact opposite of my different constructs of gender into a the body, but what is interesting is that intricate brilliance, a detailed image which mesmerises twilight zone outside of the traditional there are situations where the body comfortable and accepted binary. The would teach the greatest French literature known to grand fantasies, for he is not my grand tapestry of my way gender is constructed to demand man - Flaubert, Moliere, Voltaire - to the best minds the viewer. I like to get lost in my fantasies, to create the luminescent illusions, but rather he is my stark reality. gender binary. This means that starts to become separated from the detailed life of Jean-Jacques Deschamps, and of course, investigating the relationship between cognitive processes of the individual, sanitisation of the female body and the on earth. They would converge together, huddling over He is the truth of eyesight, through glasses smudged idea that its deterioration challenges our old-leather bound texts to debate the peculiar meaning to fit myself into the grand journey. The fantasy may and scratched, a vision abundant with ever-present gender and different bodies requires an and hence from gender as we know seem to focus on Mr Deschamps, but really it is about intersectional approach. For instance, it, creating a new conception of how concept of socially acceptable behavior of a parsed French verb, its meaning lost to the march imperfections. is highly relevant to discussions of how of linguistic change. me: my interference into his life as his long-lost son, a the deteriorating or dying body rejects the body is conceived socially. The faded but not-forgotten remnant of his past that has traditional notions of femininity and tension between this concept of gender women are not encouraged to develop But he is my father. He is my true father and the only bodily capacity, but instead are taught I spend hours imagining this person, Mr Jean-Jacques grown and matured in the far isle of Australia before father I’ll ever have. I must learn to love him, even when masculinity and takes on its own identity is further magnified once the finally returning. The prodigal son embraces his father, conception of humanity. As feminist deteriorating body starts to ‘betray’ to actively hamper themselves in the Deschamps, and the active role he would play in my he may not love me. I must incorporate him into my pursuit of femininity. However, in death life. He’d invite me to come live with him in Paris, and the children’s tale of separation and reunification - I grand tapestry, allowing our imperfections to blend scholarship deconstructs traditional the individual by preventing the would be, naturally the axis around which the fantasy assumptions about expression and performance of gender as the body and and dying the body can no longer repeat every day, after he finished lecturing we would venture together in hopes of creating a masterpiece to hang in the actions that constitute femininity. into the well-worn streets of Paris. We would pass from revolves. The grand tapestry of my imagination would the gallery of our reality. It won’t be easy. The truth – the body, the idea arises that ‘gender’ the individual start to disconnect. Notre Dame to the Latin Quarter, pausing to sip coffee portray Jean-Jacques Deschamps not in isolation, but in reality, our existence - never is. Reality has always been is merely a name we have given to unity, with me, there in a candid polaroid of a father something not entirely definable: as Our understanding of both disability The ‘grotesqueness’ of the dying body and eat fresh bread from some artisanal boulangerie a treacherous place for me. creates a separation from traditional perched on the corner of a grand boulevard. The shop’s and son. We would be smiling, joyful, content, laughing Jung and Franz say, it is ‘a name based and gender is derived from biological carefreely as the traffic of the Parisian streets continued upon a system of beliefs but not on realities in a cultural system that notions of gender, and hence feminist striped awning would sprawl out over the pavement, factual evidence’. requires one’s command over their scholarship is necessary in reimagining body. The deteriorating body becomes this relationship once the boundaries of From birth, children are socialised the ‘Other’, an alien entity that life and death start to become blurred. In based on their sex and taught to use experiences unique modes of reception the process of abjection, the individual Romeo their bodies in accordance with deeply and oppression as compared with the expels part of their being by labelling it ingrained social infrastructures. On a abled female body. This relates to the as the ‘Other’ and creating a boundary By Mohammaed Awad corporeal level, we can perhaps consider perfectionistic purification of female between where the body ends and the what some call feminine motility and bodily functions, where the body that Other begins. This process helps to Call me over to your house I waited till tomorrow. Without the masculine motility; however, how does create gender through performance, the body become gendered once it loses as different subjects abject different So you may sleep in a different room. Elizabethan class, its movement and function? If gender is things, leading to the creation of the And then the next week. acts which both bring the gendered created through the body, can a body You tell me you are sick We wear Cotton On sweatpants. retain gender as it passes between the body into existence and govern it. In stages of deterioration, dying and death, deterioration and dying this boundary And still you have the will to Here, Watch them melt into our Adidas when it takes on different forms of becomes frayed and ambiguous, as the Evade my touch, Take this cyanide pill sneakers, movement (or lack of movement) and body itself becomes the Other, with its becomes immersed in a very unique actions and motions shifting beyond Lean off my shoulder If you ever feel Witness our beards connect mode of socialisation? In fact, the body the control of the individual. At the cost of my smoulder, you might say the words like a choir to a preacher. becomes lost in a sea of ‘ambiguity’; its You make me feel like a man. I love you. very existence signifies both life and While in life the body is governed death as indivisible, but the idea of death by imposed constraints along a Asking God is this love as being inherently chaotic implies a gendered line, death is the limit of Like I have no one to cry to. Under no circumstances To be loss of control over the body, where it power, a final barrier which when cannot continue to coherently perform crossed destroys these constraints and do I want this love to be toxic, or not to be, gender without copying specific creates new conceptions of the body. Have me talking to you more no addictive drugs When anlaysed through the lens of behaviours that suggest adherence to texting my mother less, will be Indeed we are both Romeos, one gender or another. intersectional feminism, the way that gender is ascribed to a body becomes If I saw my mother in you prescribed at this pharmacy, I fear we both may pray to the moon In social contexts the human body a complex dynamic between socially I’d remember For our lungs to fail, has been used as a conduit for various accepted ideals and the politics of the expressions of gender; it has acted as a individual’s location. A key aim of We hadn’t spoken in four days, this love is like surgery symbol which doesn’t have an inherent feminist scholarship, literature and In the dark, that we would much rather die, activism, has been the liberation of meaning but which has acquired That’s how I know Poetry in the park, that we would kill ourselves, meaning through communication the body from imposed socio-cultural and replication of social constructs. constructions and constraints. Hence, This love is no longer blessed. I gave you Shakespeare that we would cry suicide, The body has been described as the reimagining gender and the body is in the stars. ‘ultimate vessel for expressing identity’, crucial to empowerment and breaking demonstrating how it is gendered down the social infrastructures that I didn’t touch you for a day At the sight through interpretation, rather than enable oppression and withhold To see how long it would take All the gothic romance of the death privilege on the basis of the sex and by any inherent physical or biological For you to hold me, complete with the of our love. characteristic. As gender is inextricably gender binaries. Tragic pasts, Art by Oliver Mackie Pawson 10 11 V.I.FEATURE Lenin Julia O’Connell-DavidsonFEATURE The Problem of Theology Queer Artists Here and Now Wilson Huang explores the queer future of theology. Klementine Burrell-Sander and Jodie Jackson want you to queer up your Spotify playlist with a few more LGBT artists that you really need to be listening to. Theology, broadly speaking, can be de- example, as John Macquarrie describes Take the gospel of Mark as an exam- scribed as the study of the divine. In that in Principles of Christian Theology, the ple: according to Delbert Burkett in An Seeing your identity reflected in ter being released with a very gay, mentalist lesbian whose latest sense, it can include both the philosophy Bible not only diverges on trivial details Introduction to the New Testament and the art you consume can be pow- very graphic and very controver- album, The Best of Luck Club has of religion and studies of religion. How- but on questions of ethics and theology, the Origins of Christianity, Mark does erfully validating and if nothing sial music video (it’s only available just come out this year. Check out ever, more commonly, it involves the like the issue of marriage and sex. Mac- not present a virgin birth, nor does he on Vimeo, but well worth checking Every Day’s the Weekend to get a study of religious texts and their history. quarie explains that critical research has describe Jesus as ‘God’ or a “preexistent else, listening to endless boy- shown that traditional ascriptions of the divine being”. meets-girl songs can get plain out). taste of her catchy, addictive style. boring when you know that that’s never a story you’re going to relate Cub Sport is a four-piece band Janelle Monáe releases won- My point is not that you necessarily need to. Finding queer artists who de- from Brisbane who know how to derful pop bangers, with rhythm to reject those beliefs, but that these liver popping beats and beautiful deliver exactly the kind of songs and hooks to keep you dancing beliefs, should not be held with absolute lyrics that actually vaguely resem- about queer self-love that we all for days. Make Me Feel and I like certainty. Instead of trying to define need more of – just have a listen to That are easy recommendations. fundamental beliefs, we should ‘queer’ ble your own experiences? That’s theology by taking a leap of faith and not something any queer should be Party Pill to get your fill of good allowing for uncertainty. This, in turn, missing out on. gay vibes for the day. Plus, as an Even if you have no idea what relates to queerness. added wholesome bonus, front style you’re into – or just want a King Princess is a gay gender- man Tim Nelson and keyboardist/ variety of music to suit your par- queer singer-songwriter, producer vocalist Sam Netterfield got mar- tying/studying/chilling needs – the Being queer involves uncertainty. From and multi-instrumentalist from ried last year. Transcend Playlist available on the moment someone realises they’re Spotify can help you discover new queer, their whole world can get turned New York. Plus, she’s dating the upside down. amazing Amandla Stenberg, a Kevin Abstract is a gay solo LGBT artists. non-binary and pansexual actress rapper but you might also know known for playing Rue in the Hun- him as the front man from Brock- Any heteronormative world view is ger Games, who also wrote one of hampton. Put on Empty to hear destroyed and there comes a period of King Princess’ hit singles, Pussy is some of his queer beats. unlearning. For me, it may be a question King. Check out Talia as well for a of how I can relate to a society that gen- Mykki Blanco is a transgender erally assumes straightness. For many, it solid bop. Art by Oliver Mackie-Pawson is a question of how they can remain in rapper, performance artist and In particular, systematic theology aims their faith communities whilst acknowl- Courtney Act is a pansexual, poet from California. Wish You to present the beliefs or doctrines of a authorship and dates of many of the Bi- edging their queer identity. Being queer polyamorous drag queen from Would is the song we’d have to religion in a coherent and rational ac- ble’s books are in fact doubtful or false. means you forge your own path. Brisbane who you might have seen recommend count. However, systematic theology on Australian Idol if you were today. is not without its criticisms. To some, watching it back in 2003, or on it is questionable whether it is possible As Peter Cameron mentions in Funda In that sense, should the aim of the- Mal Blum is a non- binary art- to adequately describe a conception of mentalism and Freedom, referencing ology be about finding absolute truth, RuPaul’s Drag Race more recent- divinity, especially when there are many a television series Jesus: The Evidence, or should it be a journey of faith and ly. She also happens to be a queen ist whose style incorporates rock, different religions and the possibility of some of the more common conclusions uncertainty, a journey where the end is of electropop as both a solo artist punk and folk. The lyrics for New no such thing as a God. that biblical scholarship has reached never quite known? As Cameron men- and with the AAA girls. Year’s Eve are bittersweet but dis- include that the gospels were not the dis- tions in Fundamentalism and Freedom, gustingly relatable. ciples’ eyewitness accounts, Jesus did not “The Bible consists of a collection of Theology, especially of the evangelical say some of the things that he is quoted maps of other journeys by other people– Brendan Maclean, gay sing- Courtney Barnett is a home- variety, tends to be obsessed with find- to have said, and that the gospel of John always interesting and sometimes inspir- grown lesbian from Melbourne ing the right answers to questions about is not as much a historical account but ing. But to prescribe it as the map which er-songwriter, actor and self-de- God. With this, it seeks ways of gaining rather a theological construction by everyone must use would be disastrous: scribed ‘blade of queer communist who’s made a name for herself as a clarity of belief. This at times leads to whoever wrote it and their community. none of us would ever get anywhere.” I, glory’ has been bringing the queer- singer-songwriter with HER dis- the idolisation of religious texts such as Despite this, even religious liberals can for one, will never really know what the ness to our radio waves since back tinctive Aussie accent and smart, the Bible in the sense that they become accept ideas such as the virgin birth, future will hold. in 2007, when he was a music funny lyrics. Pedestrian at Best the be-all and end-all of religion. resurrection and the holy trinity without presenter on Triple J. Nowadays is the perfect introduction to her question. This is regardless of the evi- profound but easy-going style. dence to the contrary. he’s a bigger part of the action, However, this is not necessarily an ap- releasing singles like the popular propriate way to think about God - for Stupid and House of Air, the lat- Alex Lahey is a multi-instru- 12 13 Isabell Lorey Judith Butler

Hey! Are you: QuAC generally meet weekly on Tuesday at 12 pm or Wednesday at 2 pm. - Queer Meetings are held in the Queerspace in Manning House, which is also open to all queer or Half-In, Half-Out - Female questioning students at any time. To find out more, join the Facebook page (USYD Queer - Non-white - Disabled (whether physically or mentally) Action Collective) or email the Queer Officers (Peter Burrell-Sander and Steff Leinasars) at Anthony McManus is out. Except when he’s not. - Really into the environment? [email protected]. There seems to be this pervasive If you answered yes to any of the above, it sounds like USyd might have the perfect col- misconception that once you’re out, you’re out, completely, ready to express your lective for you. Collectives are groups on campus who focus on specific issues – they’re a Enviro Collective bit like a club or society, but better at fighting against the prejudiced, unjust practices of sexuality in every way, shape and form. The Enviro Collective is a group centred around climate justice and environmen- However, as I quickly realised, this is far the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy that bring harm to so many of us! Joining a tal welfare. They organise many fundraisers and events throughout the year, including a from the case. Whilst the mass Facebook collective is a great way to learn more about issues and help bring about change, but it’s post does some work for you, for most also an excellent way to meet amazing people who share your views and with whom you mid-semester roadtrip that allows students to observe environmental issues first-hand, people, coming out is done repeatedly, can share your experiences without judgement. engage in citizen science and participate in work that aims to offset the effects of poor on a case-by-case basis. Even once you’ve The collectives are officially run by the SRC, and WoCo, QuAC, DisCo and come to everyone, there’s always the environmental policy and practice. The Enviro Collective recognises the impact of white ACAR are autonomous groups, meaning that you can only join if you identify as a wom- daunting task of figuring out when to an (or non-binary), queer, disabled or non-white person respectively. The Enviro Collec- colonisation on Australia’s ecosystem, and strives to work with indigenous people to undo come-out to new people you meet and tive is open to anyone who doesn’t want our planet to be completely ruined, though! the damage wrought by a industrial capitalist society. They also help out at the Commu- befriend. Whilst some advocate for an ASAP approach, I personally can’t seem to nity Gardens near Cadigal Lawns, and would love for you to come along at 4 pm on a muster the will to do the same. I consider Women’s Collective Monday to pull up weeds with them! myself to be half-in the closet, half-out of The Enviro Collective meets weekly, at 4 pm on Wednesdays. The meeting is held at the the closet. I’ve only come out to a handful The University of Sydney Wom*n's Collective (woco) is an intersectional, of people within my life, ten, fifteen at feminist, activist group who are most active around issues of sexual assault on campus Manning House Sunken Lawns, or in the SRC in rainy weather. You can contact the Enviro most, plus some random people who have and abortion rights. We have existed for over 50 years on campus and are committed to Officers (Alev Saracoglu and Alex Vaughan) at [email protected], or been at the right place at the right time and have managed to put two-and-two continually improving the lives of women and non-binary students. We recognise that all join the Facebook group (Usyd Enviro Collective 2019). together. Luckily, I’ve been blessed with oppression is interconnected and stems from a place of exploitation under an unfair cap- amazing friends from this university who’ve not only helped me come out but italist system. We especially recognise the struggles and resistance of Indigenous women Disabilities Collective (DisCo) also shown great compassion and love in and gender diverse people in fighting back against the colonial structures which have DisCo is a collective for anyone with a disability, which they define as “long-term helping me figure out my sexuality. From by Oliver Mackie Pawson been imposed onto them. We must always prioritise Indigenous voices in our activism physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various those who provided direct guidance, to those who were offered silent, but valued and advocacy, and especially those of Indigenous women and queer people. We strive to barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with support, I’m forever grateful. leap of faith. Telling my first friend from such the people who dominated the first work with all intersections of persecuted identities in order to create a better world in others." You don’t have to identify as disabled person to participate in the collective, and the group, Hunter*, has proven itself to nineteen years of my life have utterly no be the most nerve-racking event of my idea of my which equality is achieved. There is no pride for some of us without liberation for all of DisCo welcomes people with mental, chronic and terminal illness as well as those who are “...there’s always the life. Out near the stairs of Town Hall, at us. neurodivergent. Their goals are advocacy, representation and activism, and are involved in daunting task of figuring about 7:00PM on a Friday night, getting sexuality. In particular, my parents Woco meets regularly for meetings as well as hosting events throughout semester. Contact action like demanding better accessibility from our public transport systems. ready to go out in the city. Hunter had have no knowledge of my sexuality. My out when to come-out to arrived first, and I second, and so we parents are the stereotype conservative us via Facebook (University of Sydney Women’s collective) Instagram or Twitter (@ DisCo currently doesn’t have weekly meetings, but will be organising social events began to discuss the recently finished Catholic: Mass every Sunday, prayers usydwoco). throughout the year. You can contact the Disabilities Officers, Hayden Moon and Wilson new people you meet exams. When the conversation got to a recited every day, rosary beads always point where I could segue my coming- in the pocket, conservative beliefs about (Written by Women’s Collective convenors Layla Mkhayber and Jazzlyn Breen) Huang, at [email protected] or join the Facebook group (USyd Disabili- and befriend.” out into the conversation, I took my everything from abortion to euthanasia. ties Collective). I’d recommend to anyone questioning chance, and then blurted it out. In my But with sexuality, it’s a bit more ACAR (Autonomous Collective Against Racism) A number of other collectives do exist on campus – check out the USYD SRC website to their sexuality to find an LGBTQ+ person overwhelming nerves, however, I couldn’t confusing. They love Will and Grace and to converse with about their thoughts. I say it in English, and so, with some crude my dad encouraged me to go to Mardi ACAR is open to anyone who identifies as a person of colour, indigenous or in find out more. don’t think I would’ve ever come out if it Mandarin, I came out to him. Gras, but they voted “No” and my father any way marginalised by white supremacy and aims to fight race-based prejudice and weren’t for my wonderful LGBTQ+ friends, scoffs at the idea of drag queens. I’ve only recently realised how great his white supremacism in all its forms. The collective is regularly involved with rallies and Indigenous Collective who showed me the normalcy of it all. I didn’t grow up with any LGBTQ+ people reaction. Not disgust or horror, thankfully, This constant confusion as to their true other activism both on and off campus, and frequently collaborates with other collectives Akala and Thomas are the office bearers for the 2019 Indigenous Collective, within my life, but thanks to my friends, and not overwhelming joy or support. But feelings on the matter has left me utterly such as CRAC (Campus Refugees Action Collective). and lare meeting and getting to know all the new and existing Indigenous students at the I got to see that LGBTQ+ people are just indifference, an accepting indifference. scared and unwilling to come out to them. He didn’t make a big fuss either way At best, it will be a reluctant acceptance, at ACAR hold regular meetings, usually on Mondays at 1 pm or Thursdays at 2 University of Sydney. The Collective is here to support and guide all Indigenous students that, people, who can and deserve to live normal, happy and productive lives. I first but accepted it and was okay with it. He worst, a disownment. My fears, of course, pm. You can get involved by joining the Facebook group (ACAR: Autonomous Collective as they navigate University life. They’re here to listen to your issues and ideas, give advice came out to them, not in some big grand realised the reality of the situation before lie within the latter. Not only for the social Against Racism) or chat to the Ethno Cultural Officers, Ellie Wilson and Himath Srini- and support as well as be that extra helping hand and friendly face around campus – any- confession, but in a subtle questioning. I did. I was gay, yes, but that didn’t change and mental trauma this would cause, but the fact that I was still me, with all my also the financial stress this would have thing that can’t be solved directly, they know where to find help and will be there with you On some fateful day in August, I asked wasa. one of my friends, Thomas*, when he first flaws and all my perfections. All that was on me. Unlike with my friends, who I until it is solved. started to question his sexuality. With that different was that I liked people of the could easily live without if they weren’t same sex. That didn’t mean everything accepting of it, I certainly cannot live QuAC (Queer Action Collective) In 2019, they are striving to create an environment on campus that promotes question uttered, there was no turning back, and I finally began to open the door about me had changed, or that I was now without my parents, financially and The Queer Action Collective is focussed on queer rights and welcomes all Indigenous voices and creates action through a holistic Indigenous presence on campus of the closet. From there, I told the rest of some completely different person. I was, emotionally. So, for now, I remain in the members who identify as queer, including those who are gay, trans, bi or non-binary. We across all disciplines, ages, origins and perspectives. They look forward to running multiple my friends, who, as anticipated, accepted and I am still me. So, thank you, Hunter. closet to them. Maybe in four years, when I’m forever grateful for that. In truth, I I graduate and (hopefully) find a full-time aim to make all queer students feel comfortable on campus, and fight the many preju- event throughout the year both within the University as well as in the local community with gracious and wide-open arms, as loving friends always should. consider it to be my first coming out, job, I’ll consider coming out to them. But dices that stand in the way of queer liberation. While much of the activism that QuAC ranging from Indigenous performances, sporting events and inviting Indigenous elders to more so than telling Thomas. Because it even then, I would’ve only have solved showed me that everything was going to my financial problems. For the social and organises centres on queer rights specifically, we recognise the inherently intersectional campus to pass down their experiences. After telling my main group of friends, I decided to tell my friends from my be okay and that I would be normal at the mental trauma, I’ll need to find a way to nature of queer oppression and work closely with other collectives at USyd as well as Mandarin class. With them, it was a bit end of it all. deal with it. Luckily, I think I’ve got some with non-university groups to ensure that our fight against prejudice and hatred does not They also look forward to continually amplifying Indigenous voices and working towards different, as I didn’t really know what to amazing people to help deal with that However, other than my friends from when the time comes. But for now, I’m exclude or harm any other oppressed group. Instead, we acknowledge that true liberation creating a campus that is culturally aware, competent and engaging. expect. I wasn’t anticipating homophobia, but at the same time, I had no definitive university, my coming-out has been quite half-in, half-out. for LGBTQI+ people cannot exist unless it deeply involves and supports indigenous peo- Contact them at [email protected] answer as to whether telling them would limited. In fact, I’ve only ever told people ple, people with disabilities and people of colour. be a good idea. But I decided to take a I’ve known since going university, and as *Names changed for anonymity 14 15 Max Weber Angela Davis

Exploring My Bidentity

More Than Survival Katherine Porritt-Fraser has thoughts on bisexuality. To newly identify as bisexual, to me, straight cloud. And especially being It is living with one foot in the closet, is to be in a perpetual state of transition. someone who came out late – already because your heart does not belong inside, Constantly slipping into different pockets aware of their adult self, confident in their but your whole does not feel welcome in by Ange Hall of my emerging self with no control sexuality, only to have a queer curveball the queer sphere, even with the sea of Examining queer representation in streaming media. over my trajectory. Existing in a state thrown into the works. the welcoming voices calling out from of fluidity that seems to evoke a need to I find that much of my time is spent within it. I want you to imagine your favourite her as a plot device, ending her life in an it’s following. Wyonna Earp subverts justify every action, every moment. To be attaining a heterosexual pretence. I do not It all adds up to an inability to fit. An TV Show, no matter what it is. Why do unfitting, unworthy way. The real world tropes of the traditional western genre, everything at once. feel a right to be anything else, especially inability to step outside with a rainbow you like it? Is the genre your favourite? reaction to her death was wild; billboards replacing characters that would typically I am overwhelmed by a looming when it is the way of existing I have badge on my shirt, because I do not feel Can you relate to the characters and their being raised in her honour, a worldwide be occupied by white men with a diverse pressure to choose where I fit. There is blindly accepted until recent discoveries real enough. A hesitance of coming out to struggles or successes? Did it frame the trending hashtag that still revives three in interesting, layered rolls. The fandom a dual narrative running at overtime in of myself. those I know are queer, in case they share the forefront of my brain, policing how I But this is what true invisibility feels a knowing look of disapproval. And a way you think about the world? years later, and a still active fanbase not has grown around the unkillable gays dress, speak, walk, think. I weave through like. How can you exist as a whole and never-ceasing fear of not being believed. only of the show itself, but of “Clexa”. of Wynonna Earp, and unlike the way life accompanied by a quiet voice, simply human person when you feel invisible? It When you exist in a margin between, it With the answers to those questions in With showrunner Emily The 100 shaped a dark future for queer saying not gay enough - a phrase I’ve is a state of chaos, of being in consistent is phenomenally hard to believe yourself. mind, I need to ask. “ relationships, Wynonna Earp provides learned to hate, but nevertheless feel and unrelenting conflict with yourself. ‘If you feel queer, you are queer’, I hear Andras going on record hope and promise of a happy ending. deep in my chest. And I can never seem It is exhausting. Which is an especially over and over, but I still feel fraudulent in What would you do if that show stood to ensure the safety of to tell; am I a misfit puzzle piece of the important thing to acknowledge when the rainbow colours. I feel as if I have not up and told you that you were completely I spoke with Jenna Laurenzo, queer heterosexual world, or am I a member of the mental health of my bisexual peers earnt the right to be loud or the right to expendable? the queer characters, this director of the lesbian holiday comedy Lez the queer community? is so heartbreakingly dire in our current be proud. That I have not suffered enough choice by the shows creators Bomb, In a recent interview I conducted It is hard enough to grapple with my political climate. to deserve it. bisexuality, only to have an extra layer It is feeling as if there is nowhere you But what I have learnt in my short time for LOTL magazine, “It’s important to see has been a huge part of of doubt weighing over it like a strange are fully yourself. exploring this world is that queerness That might sound like it would be a happy endings for LGBTQ+ characters. is no longer a competition of pain. It is terrible choice for any network, but the reason the show has Seeing happy endings gives courage to a beautiful, liberating thing that I am it is what has happened to the queer generated it’s following.” step into our authentic selves, and provide allowed to wear as little or as loudly I like. community through the media for faith there is in fact, light at the end of that So maybe bisexuality is messy. Maybe decades. Because of the fear and concern tunnel. Very often LGBTQ+ stories do not I will forever be caught in this tug of war, about the ratings and majority audience I cannot speak for everyone, but I can say have happy endings. Sure, these stories or maybe I will find a way to settle. But I perception, networks have turned queer what I know. Lexa’s death made me feel are also important to tell. However, it’s am done denying myself queerness; labels relationships into marketing tools to worthless. At the time I was young and out, time to bring some levity to the narrative, do not have to be limiting, and I wish to claim this one as mine. I am done loathing be used and thrown away as quickly as and I was craving positive representation along with happy endings. Otherwise, as being in between. their respect for their audiences. This on screen. female characters who will storytellers, we miss the opportunity to mistreatment is a continued result of openly love other female characters was provide LGBTQ+ audiences with stories intense homophobia to the highest degree what I needed to see, and instead I was that reflect their own happy endings. of the word – legitimate fear of same sex seeing those who represented my identity If we don’t show happy endings, we’re relationships. being thrown away, unimportant, erased. subtly suggesting those stories aren’t How could I ever deserve a happy ending? worth telling and celebrating.” Hundreds of queer females who have been killed purely as plot devices or for However, whilst you can be made to feel shock value, the “Bury your Gays” trope worthless by negative representation, has been a recognised facet of film and positive representation works in exactly television for years. In 2016, however, the opposite way. Especially if it is as queer fans found their voices. rare as healthy onscreen relationships are for the lgbtq+ community. A direct The 100 spent a significant amount of time comparison can be made to the treatment We are not expendable. We are important, since her introduction in early season of Nicole Haught in Syfy’s supernatural and our stories are worth telling. Positive 2 cultivating a complex relationship western, Wynonna Earp. Nicole and representation is essential. With more between her and the shows protagonist, Waverly Earp’s relationship is built on positive representation of healthy queer Clarke, exploring dimensions of a from Nicole’s suggestive introduction, as relationships, there will be less young relationship often not seen because of full and fleshed out as the Lexa storyline, people thinking of themselves as abnormal the specific circumstances of the show. albeit in a very different way, and or wrong. With more mainstream media Not only was Lexa incredible because of eventually the surprise antagonist shoots rejecting homophobia and accepting ACAR Honi is out next week! her representation of queerness, she was Nicole in the chest. When Waverly and queer characters and relationships, more Don’t forget to grab a copy off the stands incredible for representing a strong female Wynonna run to aid her, she is wearing young people will live to experience them. in ultimate power, a dominant displayer a bulletproof vest, “standard operating Get in contact with the officers at of strength, honour, and intelligence. She procedure.” With showrunner Emily Please check out Wynonna Earp (Season [email protected] was an ideal role model for young queer Andras going on record to ensure the 1 & 2 Available on Netflix). or hit up the Facebook page at ACAR: women who had never seen themselves safety of the queer characters, this choice Autonomous Collective Against Racism on screen before and the producers used by the shows creators has been a huge part of the reason the show has generated 16 17 Peter Fleming Karl Polanyi I Never Said Goodbye

*Trigger warning: suicide, grief, self harm, death, transphobia*

My friend died on a Was I letting my mind up and taken her to the will not suddenly force warm evening, this time wander through the leaves garden she created. someone into happiness. one year ago. of trees as I wandered through the park near my I would have pointed That even nights full of The world was at its best, house. at every plant and spider warm air and unbroken in all its glory, showing us fighting for survival. dreams will not banish the beauty we often fail to all thoughts of death that notice. manifest themselves in the folds of someone’s brain That’s what scares me tissue. the most, that she could take her life even when the world was showing the rare patterns of its kindness. She is gone, I have Maybe that’s why the forgotten the sound of her glistening of the moon’s voice. rays on my shoulders makes me walk carefully, She is gone, I have step by step. forgotten how it felt to braid her hair. I watch my feet produce each stride, just in case If I had been bored that I would have made her She is gone, I have they decide copy what hers night would I have texted trace my fingerprints until forgotten how her breath did. her, after all, we had only she forgot to listen to the felt against my cheek when spoken two hours before. suicide carving his name I pressed my head into her She was gone before I into her skull. chest. could say goodbye She is gone, I have If I’d known, would I forgotten the beat of her have sprinted to her house I would have picked her heart… and held her together like a frangipani and placed it The light behind her stitches? behind her ear. eyes faded out as her irises turned to the sky, letting Would I have cradled her I would have helped her dust filled moonlight settle in the cavity between my place all her hurt in the into abstract shadows shoulders with all the other damp earth and watched She is gone and yet the across her body. best parts of me. as it grew into something moon still dares to shine beautiful… blossoming like on my skin! Warm nights bring me Would I have let her cry she did. back to imagining what I into my t-shirt, not caring - Hayden Moon was doing when she faded. about the wet stains left in the fabric. Was I running my hands Her death is a reminder through honey suckle, or that even nights full of lying on my back touched honey suckle, warm wind by grass and leaves. I would have picked her and flowers and clear skies by Oliver Mackie Pawson

18 19 SRC REPORTS SRC CASEWORK HELP

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I don’t understand what that to prove what you are saying is true. unfamiliar to most students Code of Conduct – or in some Open Learning Environment The agenda item further proposed Committee in May, and I will means, and whether that is important. studying at the University. The cases, its existence. If you & Dalyell Scholar Units that both Dalyell Scholar units provide the student community Receiptless If you have an interaction with someone student representatives share have any suggestions how Last Wednesday, the and OLE units can potentially with any updates on relevant at Centrelink and they do not access a strong sentiment that the the current Code of Conduct Interdisciplinary Board Meeting be completed through exchange decisions that are made! Dear Receiptless, your file, you will not have a receipt number. In this case, instead, ask them Centrelink get lots of stuff wrong. Lots. for their name and note that down, When a Centrelink worker accesses your together with the time and date. It might file their computer generates a receipt seem a little over the top, but if you have Vice President number for that transaction. If you keep problems with Centrelink in the future, Dane Luo and Caitlyn Chu a record of that receipt number (you the receipt numbers and other notes can email it to yourself), you can trace might become VERY helpful. Vice President Consultation Health Day will be happening on week 3 The first stage is an informal You have 20 working days from back the information that they gave you, Abe. The Vice President This week, we are hosting of semester 2. It will engage appeal. Attend the assessment your UOS coordinator’s decision and that you reasonably believed to be consultation drop-in times are Health Day in Mallet Street on students with events on Eastern review session, look at model to submit this to your faculty. every Thursday 11am to 1pm in Tuesday 16 April 2019 from Avenue, with students from all answers or ask your UOS Please note that you cannot the SRC offices. Come and have 11am to 2pm. In week 9, there campuses welcome to attend. coordinator for the breakdown make an appeal at this stage on a chat! For satellite campuses, will be a second Health Day The purpose of this would be of your final mark and a marking the basis of academic opinion. Your Council at Work email us at vice.president@src. in Cumberland on Tuesday to showcase all the services rubric. Get an understanding of There has to be a breach of policy There are so many bits of paper involved condition of the property at the time that usyd.edu.au. 30 April 2019 from 11am to provided by the SRC, USU and why you received that mark, and or procedure. Go on https:// in renting a house. Some of these can you moved in. If there is any damage to 2pm. We hope all students can University, and local community know exactly which section you bit.ly/2W8iSPw to see how to The 3rd Ordinary Meeting of Council was held on end up being worth hundreds of dollars the property, beyond reasonable wear and Check out our new website! come and hear from SRC and organisations whether it be would like to appeal. appeal for your faculty as some Wednesday April 3, 2019. to you, so it’s definitely worthwhile tear, you will be liable to pay for its repair, financial, personal health, have specific forms or emails. knowing what to keep and what you unless it is noted in the Condition Report. Over the past few weeks, we SUPRA caseworkers at the student housing, academic etc. If you’re not successful with There were 3 resignations at this Council from services of the SRC, and that the SRC work can throw. If there is a chance that you In addition to the Condition Report it is have been working to update SRC, University student support that appeal, and you believe If you need any help, seek the joint Education Officers James Newbold with the University to find ways in which the might lose an important document, scan a good idea for you to take photos of the the SRC website. Check out the services, NGOs and local and Yiting Feng; Yiting Feng also resigned from University can help promote the SRCs services Know your Student Rights - there was a breach in policy advice from a SRC caseworker. or photograph it, and email it to yourself property (e.g. anything broken, damaged, new template and see what we organisations. the Council to the next willing member on her particularly to first year students. The motion Appealing a Mark in the way your work or your They are welcoming, free and for safe storage. or dirty) and email them to your landlord. do at www.srcusyd.net.au. If you Council ticket, Xinyue Zhang; and Jingrui Xu was passed. You can appeal an ‘academic appeal was assessed you can go can provide confidential advice. Tenancy continued... This will “timestamp” those photos and have any feedback on how the Welfare Week resigned as a Director of Student Publications decision’ within 15 working days. to the second stage and make (DSP). Elections were held for Education There were two Regulations change motions. Contracts and Leases will allow you to refer to them at a later website looks, email us. Our next big initiative is a formal appeal to the faculty. Officer and the one DSP. James Newbold and The first was for the creation of an autonomous You should receive a lease or contract date to show that whatever damage you WELFARE WEEK, which edition of Honi Soit for students with a Jingrui Xu (16 votes) were jointly elected to the outlining the conditions of the home you are being blamed for, was already there position of Education Officer, defeating Lily disability. Honi Soit Disabilities Edition Campbell (12 votes) with 5 invalid ballots cast. (Disabled Honi) is to be where possible want to rent. Never sign a lease/contract when you moved in. You should always Sean Perry was elected unopposed to DSP role. organised to coincide with Disability Inclusion until you have visited the property keep a copy of the Condition Report and Week. The motion carried. The second was to yourself. You cannot rely on photos the photos. Interfaith Officers Reports were received and accepted from the alter the title for the Disabilities and Carers’ alone, as sometimes false or old photos President, Vice Presidents, General Secretaries, Officers and an alteration to the affirmative can be used by property owners. Julia Kokic, Keegan Mason, Olivia Wang and Angela Zhang Education Officers, Women’s Officers, action provisions. This motion removed Carers There are so Disabilities Officers and Sexual Harassment from the title of the position, and altered The lease/contract should be written The Interfaith Officers service which occurred on messages of solidarity to people Officers of the SRC hold the of our willingness to hear from Officers. These reports outlined the work and the definition of a student with a disability in English and signed by the landlord. It many bits of extended their support to the the 25th of March on Eastern affected by the tragedy. We have conviction that people of all them and their concerns. events being coordinated by these Officers to match the UN Convention on the Rights is also important that you know what paper involved in Muslims Down Under and the Avenue. We did this through sent this banner to Al Noor faiths have the inalienable right since the last Council meeting. There were also of Persons with Disabilities definition. The that person’s full name is, and where you reports tabled from the Residential College motion was passed. Sydney University Red Cross expressing our condolences Mosque in Christchurch to be to gather for worship, free from (or the Sheriff) can contact them. renting a house. Officers and the Welfare Officers but the Please read your lease/contract Society’s joint event We Stand publicly and providing a calico a sign of our sympathy and fear. And we have notified Council was unable to consider those reports The 5th motion on notice was on abortion Some of these with Christchurch, a memorial banner where people wrote encouragement. The Interfaith various faith groups on campus before the meeting lost quorum at 10:52pm. rights. It asked that the motion be shared BEFORE you sign it. If you would like in full on the SRC Facebook page; that the an SRC caseworker to read it for you, can end up being There were 10 motions tabled at the Council SRC support campaigns to decriminalise just email a copy to [email protected]. worth hundreds meeting and one moved from the floor. Seven abortion; and that it also support counter- edu.au Regardless of whether you do of those motions were voted on before the demonstrations to measures seeking to restrict not understand or agree to a clause in of dollars to you, Women's Officers meeting lapsed. The first motion of the night access to abortion and the outfits that support was called from the floor in support of a those restrictions. The motion carried. the lease/contract, if you have signed so it’s definitely Gabi Stricker-Phelps and Crystal Xu protest held in Canberra on Friday 5 April it, you will be bound by its conditions. worthwhile knowing 2019 opposing the deportation and denial of The final motion for the night was is support of You should always keep a copy of your Female Alumnae Career Panel Sanitary Item Project Christina Hoff Sommers and converse with 50 women work, thoughts and issues. If permanent residency of a Queanbeyan family the victims of the Christchurch massacre and contract/lease. what to keep to discuss about many from diverse backgrounds over you have an interest in writing, because their son Kinley is deaf. The motion’s asked that the SRC write to the Al Noor and We are in the process Get free sanitary items from Linwood Mosques in Christchurch expressing heated topics, including plates of food and packing ‘the illustrating, photography, action was that the SRC endorse and publicise Receipts General Communication of confirming the list of the newly crafted purple box and endorse the action on Friday and any condolences on behalf of the University of female alumnae for our in the front of the SRC. There intersectionality, gender roles, Good box’ for local homeless playing a musical instrument, future action organised by the NUS Disabilities Sydney undergraduate student body; and You should receive a receipt for anything It is a good idea to email your entrepreneurship and career has been an increase in the the gender pay gap, violence women. We would like to adopt performing, or have anything Officer on the issue. The motion was passed. that a photo be taken and put on the SRC you pay to your landlord or housemates. communications to the landlord. This mentoring panels. There will number of students accessing against women and the #MeToo a similar event structure and else in mind let us know. Facebook page to show support for the Muslim This includes bond, rent, bills, deposits, will give you a record of the time and The first motion on notice was carried over community and the SRC’s commitment to be one focused on women in the free sanitary items. Signage movement. Crystal attended the invite ‘The Good Box’ to Sydney etc. Your receipt should have the amount date that you spoke, and exactly what was conversation to hear different University to run a similar event from the previous meeting on 6 March 2019. fighting Islamophobia. The motion was passed. that you paid, what it was for, the date, said. If you have a telephone conversation STEM fields and one focusing and posters will continue to be The motion called on the council to condemn on women in Humanities and put up around university in the views about feminist from two particularly in the lead up to the actions of Bettina Arndt on campus; that The 4th regular meeting is scheduled for and the home address. The landlord/ with the landlord it is a good idea to send Commerce fields. If you have following weeks. different ends of the spectrum Mother’s Day bringing young her rhetoric undermines the work being done Wednesday 8 May 2019 at 6:00pm in the housemate should also sign it. Again, it a follow up email confirming what was a suggestion make sure to and to acknowledge the current women of different cultures by activists to make campus safer for women New Law Lecture Theatre 026. must be in English. If you have paid by said during the phone conversation. It’s get it in ASAP! We also met Attendance at #Feminist trend of the developments together to help other women. and non-binary students; that victim blaming a bank transfer you should still ask for a a good idea to keep these on your email is dangerous to student welfare; that the SRC This is a reminder that the meeting is open with the Careers Centre to Conversation of female’s rights in various Stay tuned if you’re interested! to all members of the undergraduate student receipt. There are some situations where account. countries. stand against any future actions of Arndt’s on the landlord is not required to give you discuss student feedback about The Feminist Conversation this campus; and the SRC support the work of body at the University of Sydney so if you are Female-focused Journalism university career services and brought together the self- the University of Western Australia’s Student interested in learning more about the Council, a receipt, but there is no harm in asking. The SRC has caseworkers trained in specific programs for helping Shared Table Event We are still seeking any Guild in their opposition to her talks on their feel welcome to come along. If have a motion You should definitely keep all of your many different aspects of housing proclaimed “bad feminist”, you would like to put forward for the Council’s The Shared Table event gave contributors for ENID, an online campus. The motion was passed. receipts. law. You can email your questions to women students get more Roxane Gay, and the self- consideration, email the Secretary to Council us the opportunity to meet hub of USYD women’s opinions, [email protected], or if you prefer a career-ready! described “factual feminist”, The second was on the visibility of the SRC Julia Robins at: [email protected]. Condition Report face-to-face appointment call 9660 5222 and called on all representatives and members edu.au to have it tabled on the agenda, or if you of Council to go to more effort to formally have any questions about how to put together The Condition Report is what you and to book a suitable time. The Education Officers, Global Solidarity Officers and Refugee Rights Officers did not submit a report in time for the deadline. and informally promote the works and a motion. the landlord both agree as being the

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Across 1 Underground American LGBT subculture from which This week’s puzzles ‘Frogs were gay all along, scientists say’ modern drag originates (4,7) provided by El Snake 7 You always end up at this Oxford St venue! (3) only comes in glass bottles 9 First name of My My My! singer (5) For years, many upright at health stores. 10 Best edition of USyd student newspaper (5,4) 11 Unbuttoned top (4,5) and definitely-not- “It’s actually not as a big 12 First name of lead actor in Brokeback Mountain (5) homophobic citizens have of a shock as you might 13 Greek goddess of the hunt, protector of girls (7) been concerned over claims think,” said head scientist, 15 Lacking in worldly experience (4) that chemicals added to Dr Alan Frankton when 18 A party, for calming all your nerves (we’re spilling tea and municipal water supplies asked for comment on his dishing just desserts) (4) by local governments have ground-breaking new work. 20 First name of Make Me Feel singer (and absolute style been causing an alarming “Homosexuality is actually icon) (7) surge in the number of gay observed in animals quite 23 Oily fruit (5) frogs. Just this month, a new freq-“ 24 Kinda weird (9) 26 One whose election is contested (9) paper reveals that the frogs Unfortunately, the rest of 27 Include; rely; aristocrat (5) were in fact gay all along. his words were drowned 28 Ladies who like ladies (1,1,1) As it turns out, while out by noise from outside the government may be the facilities. Upon 29 Not cisgender (11) adding chemicals to the investigation, our reporter Down water, no difference in found a large crowd of 1 Lesbian DC superhero (8) mating or copulation was middle-class white people 2 Turned to expectantly (6,2) noted between frogs in the chanting about conspiracies. 3 Fancy cooks (5) natural environment and First the frogs – next our 4 They’re fluid (7) lab specimens that were children BHP: producing rainbows since 5 (Of food) leftover (7) restricted to drinking and I’d rather have ruined teeth 6 Capricorn for one, Virgo for another (5,4) swimming in expensive than a gay son 7 Not involving questions of right or wrong (6) alkaline filtered water that way back 8 Pielike dish (6) 14 What you’ve come here to see (4,5) Many companies whose products creating a min- 16 In all or most respects; comprehensive in extent or depth (3-5) profits are based on retail- iature rainbow as sunlight 17 Map projection that makes Greenland (2,166,086 sq km) look the same size as Africa (30,370,000 sq km) (8) ing petroleum products hits the oil’s surface. In 19 Type of beverage sold at Coco, Gongcha, Easyway, are criticised for their lack addition, he claims that Starbucks (4,3) 20 Kind of outerwear (7) of contribution to global these rainbows, which may 21 Not a seacow, or a female elephant (3-3) welfare. The new CEO of be recognised as naturally 22 Fish which gave its name to Gilligan’s Island boat (6) 25 One’s place in an ecosystem (5) BHP argues that this char- occurring, are produced acterisation is unfair, citing specifically in support of the steady production of the LGBT community. rainbows by his company “Rainbows for the fairies, throughout the years. that’s what we do,” the CEO “Every time there’s an oil told reporters. He refused Words must contain at least 4 letters. spill, what do you see?” he to comment on the compa- challenged reporters at last ny’s policy of not promot- 6 words: The DJ just played week’s press conference ing women due to ‘family Village People and Wham! back to back! about a disastrous spill in concerns’ or claims that gay 10 words: There’s someone vogu- the Great Australian Bight. applicants for the company ing on the dancefloor! Therapists discover new 14 words: OMG, there’s a drag “Rainbows, that’s what.” are routinely turned down show at nine-thirty! technique for downplaying The CEO’s position appears on the basis of ‘not being 18+ words: THIS IS A GAYS to be that BHP is person- the right culture fit’ for the ONLY EVENT, GO HOME! homophobia ally responsible for the company. Many queer people marine life, homophobia is phenomenon of oil-based struggle with coming out deemed by straight white to homophobic family therapists to be, like, way members. While pre- less harmful. How could existing approaches have a politician who refuses involved ongoing mental to endorse educational and emotional support, programs that offer support improving education and to queer children possibly be combating the oppressive homophobic if he’s covered Across Down 1 A gelt girl at queer USU event (7,4) 1 Kind of maths encountered in ogre-y swamp (8) stereotypes forced upon in pink glitter? It’s just not 7 Clean hair (3) 2 Badly end union for dirty joke (8) queer people, therapists likely, argue therapists. 9 “Oh”, you said as soon as love removed weight (5) 3 T.T about short social media message (5) have developed a novel While the method has 10 Planet holds off-grid, Aussie-first pride festival (5,4) 4 Violent frenzy from sheep on Ellen (7) technique for helping people received some criticism 11 Viewers prepare for optic discomfort (9) 5 Am hiding friend in “LGBTQIA” (7) to deal with homophobia in from queer patients, who 12 Piano is emitting some sound (5) 6 Friend of the community pronounced: loveless gnome not loveless (9) daily life. raise issues like “Rainbows 13 Cool, I ate fan out (7) 7 Wizard owners of Sydney Aquarium (6) The technique, dubbed and glitter don’t change 15 Me and alien make contact (4) 8 Soft shade for dad’s phone (6) the ‘glitter revolution’, how many trans people 18 It’s on us! (4) 14 Half-nude during anal fuckódrugs for regular cost (6,3) centres around throwing are injured in hate-based 20 Become involved in, say, returning with colour and love (3,4) 16 Not Straight Nico runs for Queer Party in Sydney or Melbourne (8) 23 Flex trapezoids some more (5) 17 Lemons destroyed heartless lady in earnest (8) large handfuls of glitter attacks,” and “A sparkly 24 Beast-lover swallows short boat, gets stomach pain (9) 19 Pacifier takes bus up to do her in a Cockney accent (7) at anything homophobic. pink company that doesn’t 26 Two gay men flourish (4,5) 20 Ingredient, say, from the South, possibly Central American? (7) Once disguised by the condemn conversion 27 Bird-Champion Newton (5) 21 The French leader misses the last Greek island (6) colourful sparkles that will therapy isn’t really that gay- 28 Text me first within seconds (3) 22 Dildos beginning to stretch upper back muscles (6) eventually make their way friendly,” the therapy has 25 Teen who said: “Search website!” (5) into the ocean and cause gained traction worldwide. 29 Inappropriately excited our leery son (11) unthinkable damage to 22 23