This cake to share is quite exciting. There are lots of stories from the NT and around our region (and Malta!) about activism, change, speaking out, and staying strong.
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Strong voices speaking out from Central Australia against the bark petition
Que Kenny, an Arrernte transwoman, said the petition did not speak for her.
“I’ve never had anyone from my own region come up to me or the sisters and brothers in the Northern Territory to talk about same-sex marriages,” she told NITV News…
Tanya Quakawoot said that the petitioners had been influenced by the Christianity of Britain.
“Colonisation and Christianity has pretty much shaped Indigenous culture today,” Ms Quakawoot said. “In particular, it has hidden the voices of Indigenous lesbians and gays, and downplayed the importance of their relationships in traditional culture.”
Another way to speak out about marriage equality, is to pop the question. As one Darwin lady did to another via the NT News. Print version only
A great article from Tiwi Islands Sister girls “I am a lady of the community and I am accepted as that. This is my home and I love it.”
Gayby Baby is the film that the NSW Education Minister thinks shouldn’t be shown in schools. It is rare that a decent documentary gets made about anything, let alone about kids raised by same sex parents in Australia. Every cloud has a silver lining. Want to make something seem really attractive to young people, banning it is the first step to increasing popularity, this doco is now more popular than ever.
A night in my shoes, from The annual Adi Senikau Pageant, Fiji’s biggest transgender pageant is staged every August coinciding with the Vodafone Fiji Hibiscus Festival.
Watch “Adi Senikau: Opening Messages” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/z9LHV1iuWGo
No pride in prison, hunger strike started for trans* inmate
Fijian President H.E. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau launches Pacific UN Free & Equal Campaign
Get paid for Pride! in NZ
Malta makes it better for people born intersex