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ANNOY MIKE BAIRD, FEATURE, TRANS EXPERIENCE, CUTE GAY SHIT, PAGE 17 PAGE 12 PAGE 13 PAGE 15 2 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 5 HONI SOIT SEMESTER 2 • WEEK 5 3 CW GENTIALS, PEOPLE NOT BEING NICE TO EACH OTHER LETTERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Oliver Moore OF COUNTRY EDITORS We acknowledge the traditional and centre the experiences of Contents custodians of this land, the Gadi- Indigenous people, and to be Gale Chan, Imogen Grant, Sam gal people of the Eora Nation. reflective when we fail to. Letters 3 / LETTERS 14 / ASEXUALITY Langford, Victoria Zerbst The University of Sydney – where We recognise our duty to be Please be nice our identities. It is to see what Mate I'm not sure social movements on and off on the political bandwagon. we write, publish and distribute a counterpoint to the racism can be done to help better the campus who have made use- Again, this is phenomenally 4 / INTERVIEW 15 / CUTE GAY SHIT CONTRIBUTORS Honi Soit – is on the sovereign that plagues the mainstream to each other lives of LGBTQIA+ people. It this is the right ful contributions to building a disrespectful to the suffering land of these people. media, and to adequately repre- is somewhere to recollect and radical student community, but of Aboriginal people and their Anonymous, John Black, Gale edition of the paper 6 / EXPERIENCE 16 / POETRY As students and journalists, sent the perspectives of Indige- Dear Honi, recharge ourselves. It is there to many of them are bullshitting. courage in standing up against Chan, Susie Elliot, Eric Gon- we recognise our complicity nous students at our University. celebrate queerness but it is also for you At the Honi debate last week, the inhumane treatment they zales. Wes Gray, Harry Has- 7 / INTERSECTIONS 18 / CASEWORKERS in the ongoing colonisation of We also wholeheartedly thank Having a safe and accessi- a location to learn about other’s all three tickets claimed to be continue to receive at the hands sett, April Holcombe, J.J., Andy Indigenous land. In recognition our Indigenous reporters for ble queer space on campus is identities. Or at least that’s why committed to holding the uni- of colonial Australia. In a con- Mason, Mark Millar, Oliver To the editors of Honi Soit, 9 / BEING TRANS 19 / PUZZLES of our privilege, we vow to not the continuing contribution of important for LGBTQIA+ stu- I initially started to go to the versity management to account text where Aboriginal adult and Moore, Connor Parissis, Perri only include, but to prioritise their labour to our learning. dents. It allows us a place to space. But I no longer feel that and covering campus activism. youth incarceration are among Roach, Riki Scanlan, Marcus As a member of staff I am 10 / FEMININITIES 20 / SRC REPORTS meet one another, somewhere I can do that. I am aware that But many of the candidates the highest in the world, more Wong, Noa Zulman. very disappointed at some of to study or rest and a location to some regular users of the queer the current campaigns being are first or second years who Aboriginal children are being 12 / FEATURE 22 / THE CURSOR organise ourselves, without the space overtly express that they run at the University for the could have been in high school removed from families than at ARTISTS potential harassment or judge- do not think certain LGBTQIA paper. The campaign that is during the most recent staff any other time in history and ment from non-queer people. It identities are ‘queer’ enough; concerning is SIN for Honi. strikes, the big mobilisations Aboriginal services and pro- 12 / FEATURE John, Eloise Myatt, Katie Thor- EDITORIAL is a space that is designed to be that those identities do not The campaign is a mockery after Rudd announced the ‘PNG grams have been savagely cut, burn, Victoria Zerbst, Robin safe from discrimination, bully- experience discrimination in of Christian religion and should solution’, the fight against fee Aboriginal people face very dif- Oliver Moore Susie Elliot on the rise Eames. ing and abuse based on identity. the wider society and therefore not be endorsed by the Univer- deregulation under Abbott and ferent consequences for demon- and fall of Oxford Street A confession, of sorts: I love this scrappy student publica- It is a refuge from dealing with do not belong in queer spaces. sity. I find the contents on their the demonstrations against the strating than white middle-class COVER Honi Soit. From before I even tion – looking over the words of the experience of being ostra- This means I no longer feel that Facebook page and the wording forced closure of remote Abo- students from the inner city. finished high school, I read Honi years past and seeing the same cised in mainstream society. It I can be proud of a certain part riginal communities. Yesterday, several members Ellie Rogers of their campaign highly offen- online, eagerly drinking in the commitment to social change, is a place to learn and to thrive of my queer identity without sive and am appalled that this is There is something particu- of Students Support Aborigi- Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative vibrant and inclusive campus to innovation, to a better and in our often marginalised iden- having to defend and heavily being spread around the Uni- larly disturbing about the dis- nal Communities attended a Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City AN APOLOGY culture that was so far from my brighter future, I can't help but tities. debate it, something I didn’t versity. honest claims of involvement demonstration in Blacktown Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, conservative small town high wonder what generations future Initially entering a queer expect to encounter in queer The University should be in feminist and Aboriginal organised by the local Aborigi- space and administrative support are financed by the University Karl Stephanovic school. The existence of a queer might think of what we have space can be intimidating spaces. I no longer feel a sense about acceptance of all people rights movements. The issue nal community about the issues of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s autonomous edition of anything achieved. in itself already, especially if of support and if anything I get and religions. of sexual violence on campus of police violence, over-incar- directors of student publications: Tahlia Chloe, Justine Landis- SPECIAL THANKS TO was my idea of heaven. The The first Queer Honi was pub- someone is new to LGBT- more from non-queer people It is very disappointing. has effectively been treated as a ceration and child removal. Hanley, David Hogan, Michelle Picone, Siobhan Ryan, and Michael trusty pages of Honi bouyed me lished fourty years ago. Where QIA+ things. Entering a queer and allies than from those who Regards, political football by the various There were about 40 people at Sun. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to Naaman Zhou's Medicare card through the chaos of undergrad, will we be in 2056? Will marriage space where exclusive social frequent the space. Georgia Kalavritinos factions as they seek to capital- one of the tamest protests I’ve be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. aways a welcoming inky cover in equality finally be legalised? Will groupings have already been I also get a sense that the Campus Infrastructure & ise on the explosive attention ever seen, but the demo was The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of times of need. It is an incredible trans kids be able to access med- established makes it doubly queer space currently leans Services it has received this year. This also attended by 8 mounted the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor privilege to have the opportunity ical treatment without a court intimidating and