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Rage is a good place to start
After being cancelled last year due to the pandemic, 2021âs Sydney writersâ festival began with fury: an opening address shared by Melissa Lucashenko, Tara June Winch and Evelyn Araluen, and taken by all three as an opportunity to advocate for justice. As Araluen put it: âAboriginal women know what it is to be silenced, ignored or wilfully misinterpreted by those who do not wish to hear what needs to be said.â
Lucashenko told a parable which had at its core the damage wrought by gentrification, as it âhits country NSW like a freight trainâ. Winch, stuck in France with a tab open on the Stranded Aussies forum, gave a forceful speech about how Australia looks from afar â violent, racist and in denial â and how uncomfortable it feels for her to be grouped into the âidentity crisisâ that is âAussieâ in the first place.
Pride in Protest and the fight for Sydney’s queer community
Leadership struggles, online vitriol and generational change within Sydney s queer community. Photography by Aman Kapoor
April 11, 2021
Veiled in respectful silence, Taylor Square is surprisingly still, calm even. The sheer number of people that have turned up smother the occasional spot fires of nervousness that jump through the crowd. Bodies radiate quiet determination.
“I’m going to get a little bit emotional because, as I stand here on this occasion, I am recalling that first Mardi Gras”, says Mark Gillespie, microphone in hand, his voice filling Taylor Square.
Gillespie is a “78er”, one of the original protestors who marched down Oxford Street from Taylor Square on 24 June, 1978, to commemorate the Stonewall Riots. When police denied the marchers access to Hyde Park that night, where they planned to have speeches, cries of “on to the Cross” multiplied rapidly. Protestors
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Part 3.8 of the Custodial Operations Policy and Procedures of
Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) outlines how prison authorities deal with
transgender and intersex inmates. It aims to achieve best practice,
non-discrimination, safety and security.
The policy stipulates that a transgender person must be treated as the gender with which they identify at their time of
incarceration , addressed using their preferred pronouns and
assessed as to which facility is the most appropriate for them to
serve out their sentence.
More often than not, both trans women and men are placed in