My 1st article on Junkee- Same-sex adoption and disability!

Everyone's talking about what a win for equality the amendment to the Victorian Adoption Act has been for same-sex couple's but people with disabilities are still discriminated against because in Victoria you have to be deemed '“fit and healthy and able to actively parent a child” in order to adopt. Read more on this in my article here 

LGBTI Disability Forum 2015-It's time to make sexuality a priority for disability rights!

On Dec 3,  International Day of People with Disability, 2015, I was part of putting on a landmark event at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne an LGBTI Disability Forum. Led by myself and Jarrod Marrinon and and in partnership with Rowena Allen, Victoria's first Gender and Sexuality Commissioner, and with limited funding from the Office for Disability and Department of Premier and Cabinet, we were keen for this event to be more then just a talk fest and to have LGBTI people with disabilities at the event contributing to discussion. The morning session was us educating service providers from both the disability and LGBTI health sectors and the afternoon session was a closed session with the commissioner for LGBTI people with disability, in which we discussed our issues with her and reached some concrete fundable outcomes. There are some great things underway so watch this space!

You can read more about my experience of the forum here :)

SEX PUNS! I worked some good ones into this article ;)

I wrote an article on Scope UK's ‪#‎EndTheAwkward disability and sex campaign and why I, as a person with a disability, am not getting behind it and got it published Here

'I Am That Woman' Fringe Festival show highlights!

This Melbourne Fringe Festival i was lucky enough to be in a smashing show with Lana Woolf, Lish Skec, Amanda Anastasi and Viki Mealings.


Highlights for our I Am That Woman Fringe show can be listened to here on 3CR's women on the line program.


We are planning to do more shows so pls follow us on  FB, twitter or our website

Do Queer Women Necessarily Objectify Women? Queers & Answers-Vimeo recording

The recording of Queer and Answers Monday 1st June 2015 
Do Queer Women Necessarily Objectify Women? With me, Sonja Hammer & Amy Broomstick 

Link to Vimeo recording of event


We answered such questions as

What is objectification?

Can you appreciate a woman sexually without objectifying her?

Is a woman anti-feminist if she likes to be objectified?

Can objectification look differently to different women?

Do men and women objectify in the same way?

Can you have raw animalistic sexual attraction / activity to women without objectifying

women?

Is objectification something we all naturally do, but must train ourselves not to do?

Do women who are sex positive automatically want to be objectified?

Enjoy!

What TedxSydney got wrong with #StellasChallenge

Below is an article i recently had published in Daily Life on #StellasChallenge and the outrage it caused in the disability community here in Australia

Link

What it's like to have to defend your right to live

Here is the link to my most recent article on The Case for My Life which was published on Daily Life