Queering The Air

On today's episode Amy reports back from Footscray Community Art Centre's Women Arts Politics Symposium. This year the symposium looks at how young secondary boys can be included in the discussion of feminism. We hear performances by young secondary girls on their experiences of feminism + more! Thanh Hang is joined in the studio with Iris and together they discuss patriachy, feminism and emotiona...

In today's show we talked about the amazing VoiceFest with Erik and Idil and covered the Trans Day of Visibility

During this show presenter Amy speaks with recent high school graduate, Erik Ly and high school teacher, Cordelia, about the impacts of the cuts & changes to the Safe School Coalition program.

Liza Maza is a Filipina Congresswoman, a representative of GabrielaWomen's Party in the Philippine House of Representatives, activist, and current leader/president of GABRIELA, Philippines' frontline network of anti-imperialist, women's grassroots organisations. Malou Logan is the President of GABRIELA Australia. We talk about Gabriela Australia as it celebrates its 20th Anniversary. We also discu...

Bobuck Sayed is a Queer Afghan Australian writer, performer and editor. They also wrote 'The Pinkwashing of Mlebourne Pride' in Archer Magazine.

Jessie & Thanh Hang celebrate Queer Lunar New Year on Queering the Air!bai bai wooden goat and hello Fire Monkey. Bringing you firey predictions and lunar love letters for the future ahead

We do an overview of some of the highlights of the Midsumma program, discuss social media and Invasion Day events

Nicki, Jessie and Luke talk all about classic and modern queer icons: divas, tragic figures, closeted queers and hot martyrs. We also review Buyer and Cellar and Hugh Jackman's Broadway to Oz.

J&T interview Arun Kundnani on radicalisation and radicalisation theory.  Arun Kundnani is the author of 'The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror'- a powerful critique of US surveillance of American Muslims. His book, 'The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain', was selected as a New Statesman book of the year in 2007. He is former editor of the jo...

On this episode of Queering the Air, Thanh Hằng covers mental health, self-care, community care and it's place in the Arts. We hear from Judy Atkinson, a Jiman and Budjalong woman whose work focuses on arts, healing, trauma and 'educaring'.We also chat to Rani Pramesti, theatre-maker and Associate Producer at Footscray Community Arts Centre, as well as Dawn Dangkomen, digital artist and writer as...

J&T Interview Sa'ed Atshan, Member of Palestinian LGBT advocacy group, Al-Qaws, and Jordy Silverstein, Executive member of Australian Jewish Democratic Society, and discuss a variety of topics. This is followed by an update on gendered violence in detention centres.

On this episode of Queering the Air Thanh Hằng covers the politics of QTPOC HairThanh Hằng chats to Amena, Raina and Rai as they share their experiences with hair care  + chats to Vaxx and Angela about the queer visibility/invisibility and race and gender politics of qtpoc hair. Vaxx, Angela and Thanh Hằng also read out love letters from various qtpocs about their relationship with their hair. 

We chat with Anna, Regina and Dan from the Brunswick Renegades and James from Melbourne Surge about queerness and sport. Why are there so many queer girls in sport? How can sport be more inclusive? Who wins the ultimate war of Nerds v Jocks?

On this episode of the show J & T talk briefly about the refugee crises in Syria and the world, feature an interview with the Our Voices, Changing Cultures project, and review the "Asian Ghost-ery Show" playing at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

On this episode of Queering the Air Thanh Hằng explores Women's Emotional Labour, Feminism, Capital Value and Theory with Melbourne-based writer and artist, Aurelia Guo and co-founder of the Feminist Theory Reading Group, Eva Birch. We also hear from with Arrente woman, Celeste Liddle's s talk at Liquid Architecture's FMX: What would a Feminist Methodology sound like? .   

Nicki and Jessie review Pregnant Butch by AK Summers, The Inner Circle by TC Boyle and Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave.

Thanh Hằng and Sasha review two queer films screening at Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) 2015!From sleeping soldiers in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cemetery of Splendour to Maya Newell's Australian documentery Gayby Baby. 

We look at the intersection of sound, sexuality and stereotypes as Jessie, Jack and Luke explore the so-called "gay voice". What does it sound like? What's behind it? Does it even exist?

Listen to an interview with a collective of the MASIL collective & a discussions of RISE's response to the ALP turn the boats back policy

Lia Incognita chats to Declan Greene about his play I AM A MIRACLE at Malthouse Theatre. They talk about his play, injustice, queer sincerity and how to make theatre about brutality without creating a spectacle of suffering.+Thanh Hằng chats to Gabi Briggs, a Koori woman from sovereign Anaiwan and Gumbangier peoples and is a photographer as well as a video and performance artist. She is also a co-...

 Thanh Hằng is joined by newest Queering the Air presenter, Jules Pereira. We hear from Thành Nguyễn, director of Queer Forever Festival, chat about Independent Arts and Censorship in Hà Nội  + the traditional vs the contemporary in classical Indian dance with Mohiniyattam dancer, Raina Peterson. Raina Peterson shares with us details about her upcoming show with dance partner Govind Pillai, 'In Pl...

In this episode, Arjun speaks to academic Gilbert Caluya, who is a research fellow based at the university of South Australia in Adelaide. Gilbert has written about race, sexuality and the cultural politics of intimacy, and in this interview he explores some of his ideas in greater depth.

Thanh Hằng recently visited Hà Nội Vietnam to check out what's happening in the queer community over there. She's brough back some interviews with Queer Forever Festival Director, Nguyễn Quốc Thành, as well as Queer Zine Collective, Hà Nội Panic.  

Queering the Air's Lia Incognita talks to Wei Tingting, one of China's Feminist Five who was detained for over a month for a planned action against sexual harassment on International Women's Day 2015. It's her first interview with Australian media and we chat about the campaign for her release, international solidarity, and the current climate for transgender, lesbian and bisexual women in China....

Arjun talks to Dean Beck, JOY 94.9 broadcaster and producer who hosts the amazing shows Word for Word and On the Line, and is speaking at the Emerging Writer's Festival on 2 June. Jessie and Nicki cover the racist anti-Islamic rally in Richmond, and discuss militarism, the police and hate speech.