World Wide Wave

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World Wide Wave Podcast

Aiming to promote awareness of international LGBTIQA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTIQ+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBTIQA+ people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

  1. 4 JULY

    World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – July 2nd, 2024

    Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to July 2nd, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBTQIA+ people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

    7 min

  2. 4 JULY

    Middle East: queer life in the gulf states

    In the Gulf States, penalties for queer acts can include imprisonment, deportation, torture and even death. Yet the region is dominated by migrants, including queer migrants, who make a deliberate decision to move there. One such migrant is telling their stories, including where queer people are not just surviving, but thriving. Gaar Adams is the author of a recently released book titled, ‘Guest privileges, queer lives and finding home in the Middle East’.

    35 min

  3. 12 JUNE

    World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – June 11th, 2024

    Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to June 11th, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBTQIA+ people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

  4. 12 JUNE

    Global: ILGA World’s new report on LGBTQIA+ rights

    It’s Pride Month in the northern hemisphere. For many it’s party time, but for others there are still protests and a fight for visibility. Ahead of Pride Month, ILGA World launches a major new report, ‘Laws on us: a global overview of legal progress and backtracking on sexual orientation, gender identy, gender expresision and sex characteristics’, documenting legal developments affecting LGBTQIA+ people in 193 UN member states since January 2023. The report highlights the positive legal changes as well as the backsteps in LGBTQIA+ rights, including some alarming trends. Dhia Rezki is lead coauthor and joins us to discuss the findings.

  5. 6 JUNE

    World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – June 4th, 2024

    Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to June 4th, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBTQIA+ people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

  6. 6 JUNE

    Torres Strait Islands: special radiothon guest, Cerulean

    It’s Joys 30th year on air. Still Australia’s only dedicated LGBTQIA+ radio station and one of the longest continuously running queer radio stations in the world. Tonight for this special radiothon episode, we have a very special guest who hails from the Torres Strait Islands and is now a Melbourne icon. We’re delighted to be joined by drag extraordinaire, Cerulean.

  7. 31 MAY

    World Wide Wrap: LGBTQIA+ news for the week – May 28th, 2024

    Listen to the week’s World Wide Wrap where we round up all that was in international LGBTQIA+ news for the week to May 28th, 2024. World Wide Wave aims to promote awareness of international LGBTQIA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTQIA+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBTQIA+ people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

  8. 31 MAY

    China: transgender histories from late imperial China

    The term ‘transgender’ is a modern concept. Only in the last thirty years or so has it gained wide-ranging acceptance, but this is where the name and the lived reality part ways. Transgender people by different names have been around for all time, including in imperial China. Matthew Sommer is a professor of history at Stanford University and has scoured court records in China to uncover trans-people who, despite the hardships for many, were able to find a place in Chinese society. He details their stories in his new book, ‘The Fox Spirit, The Stone Maiden and Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China’,

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Aiming to promote awareness of international LGBTIQA+ issues. Our program provides in-depth analysis and interviews. We focus on the challenges facing the global LGBTIQ+ community as well as some of our successes. We take pride in interviewing a wide range of international LGBTIQA+ people and supporters including politicians, activists, academics, parents, authors, students, professionals and more.

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  • Creator
    JOY 94.9 - LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Intersex, Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities
  • Years Active
    2011 - 2024
  • Episodes
    101
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    © JOY Melbourne Inc.
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    World Wide Wave

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