Posts Tagged ‘queer activism’

Episode 212: It’s More Complex Than Yes – We Can’t Stop After Marriage

Posted: September 17, 2018 in Uncategorized
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Post SSM poster by Nick Carson

Image by Nick Carson.

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On this episode we’re joined by Sally Goldner, host of Out of the Pan radio show, to discuss queer issues and the queer movement post same-sex marriage in Australia.

More specifically, Sally covers: the importance of addressing transphobia and biphobia; intersections between queer issues and sex work; the queerphobia of Australia’s new Prime Minister, Scott Morrison; and trans representation in movies (in light of the recent controversy of Scarlett Johansson playing a transgender character).

For more on this issue of trans representation, check out the Q and A of the talk ‘Transgender Awareness and The Law’ by Cassie Giudice and the Out of the Pan episode ‘Scarlett covering transphobes working together’. This episode of Out of the Pan also has further analysis from Sally on queer issues and the queer movement post same-sex marriage in Australia.

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Clips:

Against Me! ‘True Trans Soul Rebel’, Shania Twain ‘Man I Feel Like a Woman’.

 

 

Episode 190: Reflections on the Yes Campaign from the Coalition Against Marriage

Posted: November 23, 2017 in Uncategorized
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The yes announcement in Sydney. Pic from perthnow.com.au

You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (58mins, 48MB).

On this episode we discuss the Australian public voting yes to same-sex marriage in the recent postal vote. We play a talk from the yes announcement event in Melbourne, by someone from the union movement. You can listen to our recording of more of the talks from this event here.

We also analyse the high no vote in Western Sydney, drawing on a Facebook post from Carrie Hou.

We also discuss some critiques of the yes campaign and of same-sex marriage in general from within the queer movement. For more on this, check out the articles ‘Marriage equality: yes, it’s about gender’ by Amy Thomas and Hannah McCann and ‘Queers against gay marriage: What to do in this postal vote?’ by Jess Ison. We also did a whole episode (#55) on this topic featuring Jess Ison and returned to this topic with Jess at the end of episode 135.

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We’re not sure if Australia should get too much credit for being a country where only about 6 in 10 people are not blatantly homophobic! Image from 9news.com.au

Clips:

Pop Blast ‘Sydney, Australia Reacts To Gay Marriage “YES” Ruling’, Talk from the yes announcement event in Melbourne by someone from the union movement, The Feed ‘Quick History of Same sex marriage’, Myq Kaplan ‘Tolerance and Vampires’ – from the album ‘Vegan Mind Meld’, Onsind ‘Heterosexuality is a social construct’.

Episode 153: Anarchism, Animal Liberation and a Little Bit of Misandry

Posted: December 17, 2016 in Uncategorized
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Lara Drew (left), Jess Ison (centre) and Nick Pendergrast (right). Photo thanks to Leigh-Chantelle: http://www.leigh-chantelle.com/

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This episode features part two and three of a panel discussion on anarchism and animal liberation, featuring Jess Ison, Lara Drew and Nick. You can hear part one of this talk on episode 152 – this episode also has links to all of the talks from the 2016 Institute for Critical Animal Studies conference, where this panel was recorded.

During the panel, Nick discusses the book Free Women Of Spain: Anarchism And The Struggle For The Emancipation Of Women and his article with Dr Theresa Petray on Indigenous and animal activism – you can listen to a talk on this here: Experimental Utopias and Social Change – Examples from Australian Non-Hegemonic Activism.

The episode also includes a little bit of Dinesh Wadiwel’s talk from the Queer Animalities panel discussion, also featuring Jess Ison and Javed.

At the end of the episode there is a brief discussion on the importance of prioritising women’s voices, which can lead to accusations of reverse “sexism”.

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Clips:

Frenzal Rhomb ‘Guns Don’t Kill Ducklings (Ducklings Kill Ducklings)’; Part 2 of Panel discussion on anarchism and animal liberation, featuring Jess Ison, Lara Drew and Nick: Why does Anarchism and Animal Liberation need to be considered?; Dinesh Wadiwel’s talk from the Queer Animalities panel discussion; Part 3 of Panel discussion on anarchism and animal liberation, featuring Jess Ison, Lara Drew and Nick: What does Animal Liberation and Anarchism look like in practice?; Daryl Hall & John Oates ‘Maneater’.

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Photo thanks to Leigh-Chantelle: http://www.leigh-chantelle.com/

You can listen to a short (10 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of the anarchism and animal liberation panel, here: Anarchism and Animal Liberation in Practice. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 140: Gay People Eating Vegan Fast Food at ICAS

Posted: July 7, 2016 in Uncategorized
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Burger King’s “Gay Pride Whopper”, which Jess Ison discusses in her talk that is featured on this episode. Image from mstarsnews.musictimes.com

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Nick is joined by Jess Ison from the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Oceania for the entire episode and we play Jess’s talk: “Do Gay People Even Eat Fast Food?” Queering animal liberation (animalizing queer?). You can listen to the Q and A following the talk here. This talk is from the most recent ICAS Oceania conference. See the show notes from our 108th episode for links to listen to all of the talks from this conference.

We start off the episode by discussing the upcoming ICAS Oceania conference, which will be held from Friday September 30 – Saturday October 1 at the University of Canberra. Full details are here – hopefully see you there!

ICAS 2016

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Clips:

A/S/L? ‘2coins1side’, Jess’s talk: “Do Gay People Even Eat Fast Food?” Queering animal liberation (animalizing queer?), Team Dresch ‘Fagetarian and Dyke’.

You can listen to a short (11 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of our discussion on the upcoming ICAS Oceania conference, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.