Remembering the past, shaping our futures

Pride of place Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Mardi Gras conference

Monday 25 June 2018

9:00am Acknowledgement of Country and welcome to conference Welcome Professor Jakelin Troy, Director, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research, University of and Professor Annamarie Jagose, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,

9:30am Opening session Session 1 From protest to party: Mardi Gras in conversation with the 78ers

Chair: Professor Annamarie Jagose, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney. Panel: Terese Casu, CEO, Mardi Gras Ltd; Ken Davis, The first Mardi Gras in Sydney as a transitional moment, between liberation and rights; Robyn Plaister, Is working together the best way forward? Why lesbian feminists required a political change in the 1970s from working in coalition with gay men

10:30am Morning tea

11:00am Stream A Stream B Conference artist-in-residence Session 2 Academia/activism Out at work Watercolour sketches Guy James Whitworth Chair: Dr Jessica Kean University Chair: Hannah-Joy Gillard Monday and Tuesday all day of Sydney Panel: Emeritus University of Sydney Panel: Professor Dennis Altman La Trobe Christopher Nelson and Mark University, Academia versus activism; Latchford, ACON Pride Inclusion Grace Sharkey University of Programs, Pride in Diversity; Dr Matt Sydney, In reply Egan, University of Sydney, Being LGBTIQ+ in the accounting profession

12:00pm Stream A Stream B Session 3 Activism and transnational Queer Australian writing intersections in Asian LGBTIQ+ cultures and communities Chair: Dr Guy Davidson University of Wollongong with Quinn Eades Chair: Dr Shawna Tang University , author, All the of Sydney, Panel: Professor Peter Beginnings (Australian Scholarly A. Jackson Australian National Publishing, 2015), Rallying (UWA University, Expanding Queer and Publishing, 2017; Benjamin Law, Transgender Autonomy in Post-coup author The Family Law (Black Inc, Thailand. Panel: Hendri Yulius 2010), Gaysia: Adventures in the University of Sydney, The SOGIE Queer East (Black Inc, 2012); and ecologies – How the arrival of Fiona McGregor, author, Indelible SOGIE transforms Indonesian Ink (Scribe Publications, 2010, Age LGBTIQ+ activisms; Dr Shawna Book of the Year 2011), Strange Tang University of Sydney, Same- Museums (2008), Chemical Palace sex marriage and Singapore; Dr (Allen & Unwin, 2002), Suck My Thomas Baudinette Macquarie Toes (McPhee Gribble, 1994), Au University, Creative misreading of Pair (McPhee Gribble, 1993) Japanese gay media: Chinese men’s aspirations for “Asian” gay identity

1:00pm Poetry readings Lunch Pam Brown, Quinn Eades, Kate Lilley, Mark Peart

2:00pm Stream A Stream B Session 4 Pride World of Sport Improving service responses to LGBTIQ domestic violence Chair: Dr Victoria Rawlings University of Sydney; Panel: Dr Workshop chair: Dr Jessica Kean Ryan Storr Western Sydney University of Sydney; Panel: Dr University; Alex Blackwell Rebecca Gray is an experienced international women’s cricketer; social researcher, Rebecca’s work Casey Conway Indigenous rugby focuses on the clinical encounter, league player and program domestic violence and the needs of manager, Pride in Sport; Erica particular communities, such as James, is a proud trans woman Aboriginal and Torres Strait grade cricketer Islander people, refugees and Humanitarian Entrants, and LGBTIQ communities; Tommy Walker is a social worker and research practitioner who has worked extensively with marginalised people across the asylum seeker, domestic violence, disability and environmental sectors: What’s the best service response for sexually and gender diverse people experiencing violence and abuse in their intimate/domestic relationships?

3:00pm Stream A Stream B Session 5 Lines of beauty Kindling: Spark Youth Theatre members in conversation with the Chair: Dr Melissa Hardie Panel: 78ers Daniel Swain University of Sydney, Interior Designs: objects, class and A panel performance reading by queer identity; Kim Kemmis Spark Youth Theatre members, University of Sydney, ‘Men- from their queer production Political poodles’, masculinity and manners: Children, followed by an looking for queer life in 1860s intergenerational conversation led Melbourne; Matthew Clarke by artistic director Felicity Nicol University of Sydney, “They lived in with 78ers Meredith Knight, Peter squares and loved in triangles”: Murphy, Sandi Banks and Shane Bloomsbury Now and Then Brown

4:00pm Afternoon tea

4:15pm Stream A Stream B Session 6 Mardi Gras and community Fags, dykes, crims responses to HIV/AIDS Chair: Dr Susan Potter University of Chair: Assoc Professor Kane Race Sydney Panel: Dr Leigh Boucher University of Sydney. Panel: Heath Macquarie University, Sex in Public Paynter Deputy CEO of Australian and the History of Decriminalisation; Federation of AIDS Organisations; Dr Honni van Rijswijk and Dr Nicolas Parkhill CEO, ACON; Laura Joseph University of Emeritus Professor Dennis Altman Technology, Sydney, Freaks and La Trobe University; and Assoc Screws: Mardi Gras, television, and Professor Niamh Stephenson the carceral imaginary; Dr Susan University of Potter University of Sydney, Degrees of Separation: “Witches, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters” (1980) and “Riot” (2018); Peter Murphy Are official apologies to the 78ers worthwhile?

5:30pm Book launch Day close and cocktails Chair: Professor Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney; Assoc Professor Kane Race University of Sydney, “The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV” University of Sydney (Routledge 2017) and Assoc Professor Niamh Stephenson and Professor Emerita Susan Kippax University of New South Wales “Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention” (Wiley & Sons 2017). Launch by: Professor Annamarie Jagose Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney with Emeritus Professor Peter Aggleton Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales

Tuesday 26 June 2018

9:30am Stream A Stream B Conference artist-in-residence Session 1 Drag kings: Sydney’s drag king Trade unions and the LGBTI Watercolour sketches scene as place-making activism workplace Guy James Whitworth Monday and Tuesday all day Chair: Dr Kerryn Drysdale, Centre Chair: Assoc Prof Bronwyn Winter, for Social Research in Health, University of Sydney Panel: Ken University of New South Wales; Davis, Deputy EO and International with Sveta Gilerman, aka DJ Sveta, Programs Manager, APHEDA Trade and co-founder of the Kingki Union Aid Abroad, member of the Kingdom/Queer Central; Lisa organising committee of Workers Kemball, aka drag king D-Vinyl, Out!, Sydney 2002; Frank Barnes, drag king performer DVinyl, and former organiser with the NSW founder of DKSY; Kat Dopper, Federation, and band member of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi the organising committee of Gras board member, and founder Workers Out!, Sydney 2002; of Heaps Gay, and Marlena Dali, Maree O’Halloran, AM, former Sydney’s newest ‘drag clown’ and President of the NSW Teachers creator and curator of queer Federation and former CEO of the cabaret night The Oyster Club Welfare Rights Centre; Assoc Prof Bronwyn Winter, former University of Sydney Branch President and Assistant State Secretary, NTEU; co- founder of Queer Unionists in Tertiary Education ((QUTE); co- organiser of Workers Out!, Sydney 2002; chair, Trade Union plenary, first world conference on LGBTI human rights, Montreal, 2006

10:30am Morning tea

11:00am Stream A Stream B Reflections space Session 2 Queering medical ethics Journeys in search of justice Out in the 70s

Chair: Assoc Professor Kane Race Chair: TBA Panel: Dr Tiffany Jones Gail Hewison and Peter de University of Sydney, Panel: Rillark Macquarie University Transnational Waal, Coming out in the 1970s: Bolton University of Sydney, Non- LGBTI rights: steps forward, steps Fears, risks, rewards binary people negotiating backward; Brett Hatfield NSW testosterone use for gendered bodily Health with Kamalika Dasgupta changes; Arpita Das University of The Invisible Refugee: Global Sydney, Complexity of medical Challenges for LGBTI people seeking ethics in relation to intersex case- asylum; Roselle Pineda leading management lesbian human rights activist from the Philippines, and Peter Murphy, a 78er who has worked with oppressed groups in many countries over several decades, LGBTI activists and their role in national freedom struggles for justice against authoritarianism and tyranny

12:00pm Stream A Stream B Session 3 Young people, language and Mardi Gras photo documentation emerging identities in digital spaces Chair: Dr Melissa Hardie, University of Sydney, with C.Moore Chair: Dr Julie Mooney-Somers, Hardy and images by Helen Grace University of Sydney Panel: Dr Paul Byron University of Technology In this session, the historical ‘moment’ Sydney, Tumblr learning: LGBTIQ+ and photo-documentary record of young people’s negotiations of 1978 will be reviewed alongside identity and wellbeing; Jet Hunt the extensive record of the queer Youth worker, Client Services community provided by the Officer, Twenty10; Assoc photographic work Professor Rob Cover University of of C.Moore Hardy Western Australia, Emergent Sexualities: New languages and categories of gender and sexual identity among young people

1:00pm Lunch

2:00pm Stream A Stream B Reflections space Session 4 Claiming our territory: re-defining Expanding the story of rainbow Decolonising Mardi Gras queer Sydney spaces families Indigenous yarning circle with Chair: Dr Shawna Tang University Chair: Dr Julie Mooney-Somers, Annie Pratten of Sydney; Panel: Jan Filmer University of Sydney Panel: Dr University of Sydney, Where are we Jennifer Skattebol, Social Policy now? Spatial planning, social policy, Research Centre, University of New and queer life in contemporary South Wales; Associate Professor Sydney; Paul Kelaita University of Christy Newman, Centre for Social Sydney, Exhibiting Queerness in Research in Health, University of Western Sydney; Jessica Ison La New South Wales; Cris Townley, Trobe University, Not queer enough: Social Policy Research Centre, Animal Liberation and Mardi Gras University of New South Wales; Alison Eaton, Rainbow Families representative, University of Sydney

3:00pm Stream A Stream B Session 5 Ambivalence, silence and Interfaith, inter-ethnicity: resistance dialogues within and across the monotheistic religions and Chair: Dr Victoria Rawlings cultures University of Sydney; Panel: Assoc Professor Michelle Arrow Chair: Assoc Prof Bronwyn Winter Macquarie University, History- University of Sydney making at the 2018 Sydney Gay Panel: Rev. Dorothy McCrae and Lesbian Mardi Gras; Katherine McMahon Uniting Church; Dawn Giunta University of Sydney, Queer Cohen lesbian and feminist activist Sydney-siders and the 2018 who opened a consciousness raising Marriage Equality Survey; Grace conversation in the Sydney Jewish Sharkey University of Sydney, community from the 1980s; Thinking of the children: Queer Siobhan Irving Sydney Queer theory and Safe Schools Muslims; Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio Emmanuel Synagogue, Woollahra, the first rabbi to publicly support same-sex marriage in Australia; Randa Kattan CEO, Arab Council author, We are Family Too report

4:00pm Afternoon tea

4:15pm Closing session Session 6 Big Queer Ideas: Shaping our futures

If you had 5 minutes to pitch the perfect LGBTIQ future… what would it look like?

5:15pm Conference close and cocktails

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