In Ya Face

Interviews with Holly Durant, Kiki Devine, Emily Bowman, Georgie Hoadley and Alison Thorne.   We interview three performers from Melbourne's Queer and Allied Arts Community this week and then we discuss the Religious Discrimination Bill with two inclusive feminist activists from the Queer and Allied Community.  Holy Durant chats about her show Alter Edith.  Alter Edith » fortyfivedownstairs   Kiki...

Interviews with activists Rodney Croome, Devina Potter, April Holcombe.  The Religious Discrimination Bill has been sent to Parliament's Joint Human Rights Committee for an inquiry.  Rodney Croome from Just Equal discusses the Bill's contents and politics.  LGBTIQA+ Advocacy & Action | Just. Equal Australia  Victorian Pride Lobby co-convenor Devina Potter discusses the Lobby's survey and report ab...

Interviews with Lujayn Hourani and Simona Castricum.  Lujayn Hourani is a member of a group of Queer Palestinian activists from Naarm and Meanjin who have demanded the Melbourne Queer Film Festival remove Israel-made film The Swimmer from its programme and implement a boycott of Israel-made films.  Lujayn discusses their reasons and their contexts, including pinkwashing. The Festival has declined...

Interviews with Anna Brown and Spiro Economopoulos.  Equality Australia CEO Anna Brown discusses the Religious Discrimination Bill and the recent meeting between LGBTIQ community groups and Attorney General Michaelia Cash.  Supporting LGBTIQ+ people - Equality Australia  Melbourne Queer Film Festival Program Director Spiro Economopoulos discusses films screening in cinemas and online at the Festiv...

Interviews with Jack Vidgen and Christopher Amos.  Jack Vidgen chats candidly about the personal journey that inspired his new single Goodbye and shares some of his queer performance plans.  Hating Peter Tatchell writer and director Christopher Amos discusses his documentary about the extraordinary activism and life of global queer rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.   Hating Peter Tatchell was fund...

Music and interviews with Dane Blacklock and Brigitte Bardini.  3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation.  Sovereignty was never ceded.  Recorded remotely and originally broadcast on In Ya Face during August and September 2021.  Dane Blacklock and the Preacher's Daughter | Facebook  Brigitte Bardini | Facebook     

3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation.  Sovereignty was never ceded.   Interviews with Alastair Lawrie, Ricki Spencer and Todd Fernando.   Alastair Lawrie discusses the Australian Government's broken promise to legislate to protect LGBTIQ students in religious schools, religious privilege and the Religious Discrimination Bill and One Nation's Education [Parental Rights] Bill in...

  3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation.  Sovereignty was never ceded.  Our guests this week are Matthew from Sex Work Law Reform Victoria, Nevena Spirovska from the Victorian Pride Lobby, Professor Dennis Altman and queer DJ Philip Soliman.  Matthew discusses details of the Sex Work Decriminalisation Bill, shortly after it was read for a second time in Victoria's Parliament.  D...

Shibu Thomas and Rodney Croome interviews with James McKenzie.  Shibu Thomas from Star Observer discusses working in Melbourne as a LGBTIQ community journalist after moving from Mumbai two years ago.  Shibu discusses his perceptions of Melbourne's LGBTIQ community, the decriminalisation of homosexuality in India and the campaign there for marriage equality. Shibu also discusses stories he's writte...

Interviews with political activist Neil Pharaoh and policy advisor Matthew from Sex Work Law Reform Victoria.  Neil Pharaoh discusses the need for political parties in Victoria to preselect more LGBTIQ candidates for winnable seats at the 2022 state election.  Our interview includes discussion of why there are so few LGBTIQ MPs from the Labor Government in the Victorian Parliament.  Matthew from S...

Queer music made in Australia.  Thank you to the artists for their beautiful productions. Presented by James McKenzie.  First broadcast live-to-air at 3CR on 4 July 2021, when James was the guest host on Rotations; a radio program where a different 3CR presenter showcases their music of choice each week. Rotations | 3CR Community Radio  Sovereignty was never ceded.  3CR broadcasts from the stolen...

Misty Farquhar and Cheryl Overs interviews with James McKenzie.  Misty Farquhar from the Bi+ Collective Australia discusses Bi+ issues and their virtual forum Stand Bi Us, which runs September 23 to 26.  Stand Bi Us forum 2021  Sex work law reform activst and advocate Cheryl Overs from Monash University's Michael Kirby Centre For Public Health and Human Rights discusses sex work decriminalisation...

Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia and Sean Mulcahy interviews with James McKenzie.  Dr Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia is an Associate Professor of Digital History at Texas State University and a Senior Fellow for the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right. He discusses Texas's new abortion law, voter suppression, the Radical Right and the Republican Party, Afghanistan and the COVID surge in Texas.  Lou...

Brigitte Bardini and Kevin Klehr interviews with James McKenzie.  In a wonderful occurrence of serendipity, both artists reflect on the dream world and its influences on their works.  Brigitte Bardini talks about new single Heartbreaker and her album Stellar Lights.  Brigitte Bardini | Facebook  Kevin Klehr talks about his new magic realism, urban fantasy novel The Midnight Man.  The Midnight Man...

Musicians HeartAttracks and Dane Blacklock interviews.  HeartAttracks chats about recent album Gravity Call and his new EP that's currently underway, tentatively titled Honour Amongst Thieves, inspired by random conversations with strangers. We feature his song Gravity Call and interpretation of Cat Power's The Moon.  Spotify – Heartattracks  HEARTATTRACKS | Facebook  Dane Blacklock chats about th...

Dean Arcuri, Luke Forester & Professor Noah Riseman interviews with James McKenzie.  Entertainer Dean Arcuri discusses issues for the queer community during Melbourne Lockdown 6.  Dean Arcuri  Podcaster Luke Forester discusses pop culture and the pressures of being a queer person of colour behind a microphone.  Since our interview, Luke has launched his new podcast The Lilypad. Spotify – Web Playe...

Joe Ball, Brian Greig & Melanie Rowland interviews with James McKenzie.  Joe Ball advocated in 2019 and 2020 for LGBTIQ specific questions in the Australian Census as part of the LGBTI Health Alliance's campaign. They reflect on this week's Census and its deficiencies and discuss why the Census is so important for the community.  Switchboard Victoria  Former Senator for Western Australia Brian Gre...

Interviews with Dean Lim and Caroline Layt.  Dean Lim discusses sex workers during lockdown, peer support, discrimination from banks and the Independent Review Into the Banking Code of Practice.  Journalist and filmmaker Caroline Layt discusses LGBTIQ athletes at the Tokyo Olympics and the Rainbow Beach Stairs controversy in Queensland and her documentary about it.  3CR broadcasts from the stolen...

Interviews with Josephine Inkpin, Roz Bellamy & Liam Elphick.  Reverend Josephine Inkpin from Sydney's Pitt Street Uniting Church talks about One Nation's bills in NSW, the Australian Government's Religious Discrimination Bill, and her journey as a trans woman and how it insects with theology.  Author Roz Bellamy chats about their upcoming memoir Mood and how it insects with queerness, mental illn...

Interviews with political commentator Neil Pharaoh, Victorian Pride Centre Chair Hang Vo and Forcibly Displaced People Network Co-founder Renee Dixon.  Neil Pharaoh is campaigning for more LGBTIQ MPs in Victoria's Parliament. Statistically, Victoria has the lowest representation of LGBTIQ MPs of any state in Australia, except Tasmania, and compares poorly with the UK, New Zealand and most US state...

Interviews with Invisible director TJ Parsell and activist Rodney Croome.  TJ Parsell chats about his documentary Invisible, about twelve queer women and a trans man and the barriers and triumphs they have experienced in the American country music industry.  Invisible screens at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival at Nova on July 30. Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (mdff.org.au)  Activist...

Interviews with Aaron Bear, Georgia Thain and Dr Yves Rees.  Filmmaker Aaron Bear discusses his documentary Yes I Am, The Ric Weiland Story. Microsoft co-founder Ric Weiland was a long-term survivor of HIV who spent many millions enabling queer organisations to thrive and survive. Yes I Am - The Ric Weiland Story | Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (mdff.org.au)  Activist Georgia Thain from the...

Interviews with Jason Tuazon-McCheyne, Cheryl Overs and Tanya George.  Organiser Jason Tuazon-McCheyne reflects on the Better Together 2021 Conference.  Better Together 2021 — The Equality Project  Sex Work policy expert Cheryl Overs discusses the decriminalisation of sex work in Victoria.  Cheryl Overs - Wikipedia  Musician Tanya George chats about her new single Can't Do Anything Right. Tanya Ge...

Interviews with Alison Thorne and Romi Kupfer.  Alison Thorne from Radical Women discusses 'Feminism, Transgender Liberation and the Stonewall Rebellion'. She also discusses the differences between Radical Women, which is a socialist feminist organisation, and radical feminists.  And she talks about the rise of authoritarianism, her emergence as a socialist feminist in 1979, and pays tribute to th...

Interviews with Noah Riseman, Alastair Lawrie, Nevena Spirovska.  Dr Noah Riseman discusses his new academic article 'A history of transgender women in Australian Sports 1976-2017'.  Alastair Lawrie discusses One Nation's anti-trans motion in the Australian Senate, their homophobic and transphobic religious freedom and anti-trans kids bills in New South Wales and the anticipated return of the Aust...