Queer Histories Queer Futures

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A podcast series of Merri-bek's queer history told by the people who shaped it.

  1. 02/05/2025

    Annette Xiberas and Julia Adams-Xiberas

    Description: Wurundjeri Elder Annette Xiberras reflects on coming out as a gay Aboriginal woman in the 1960s and 70s, and in conversation with her daughter Julia Adams-Xiberras about their experiences as a rainbow family.Annette Xiberras is an Elder on the Wurundjeri Council, and she holds several other key positions with integral Aboriginal advisory committees and boards. Annette is also an archaeologist operating her own cultural heritage consultancy business.Julia Adams-Xiberras is currently an undergraduate at La Trobe University studying Languages and Linguistics.Location: Michelle Guglielmo Park. 260 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.Content warning: this episode mentions or discusses sexual assault, violence, racism.Theme music: All Rise by Denim Waves.

  2. 02/05/2025

    Barb Wire and Brunswick drag

    Description: Barry Solomon aka Barb Wire performed working-class drag in Brunswick from about 2000 to 2020 with performances at local pubs and the Sydney Rd Festival. Barb also hosted Drag Bingo at The Retreat.Locations: The Retreat, 280 Sydney Rd, Brunswick; The Cornish Arms Hotel, 163A Sydney Rd; Brunswick Green, 313 Sydney Rd; former Paris Tavern, 133 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.Content warning: mentions homophobia and violence.FacebookTheme music: All Rise by Denim Waves.

  3. 02/05/2025

    Barricade Books and Queer zines

    Location: 115 Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Description: Barricade Books was an anarchist infoshop, formerly located first on Sydney Road from 1995 to 2003, and then at Irene Warehouse, on Pitt Street until 2006.It was a space where left-wing and radical queers could meet, share information, hold events, and organise—and it stocked a range of anarchist and underground paraphernalia including badges, books, comics, CDs, pamphlets, patches, posters, stickers, t-shirts, and zines.Within the first two years the Sydney Road shop was subject to a police raid and regular attacks from neo-Nazis. It had iron sheeting over the windows for a year, with the Ⓐ symbol painted on the front, and "no gods, no masters", and then later bullet proof glass was installed.(Retrieved from archived website)Content warning: this episode mentions queerphobia and pornographic art.Theme music: All Rise by Denim Waves.

  4. 02/05/2025

    Brunswick Tram Depot

    Location: 807 Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Description: Tram conductor, driver and ticket inspector Stratos Filis discusses the community, friendships and activism at the Brunswick Tram Depot, including during and after the battle against the Kennett Government’s privatisation of Melbourne’s trams.Content warning: mentions violence.Theme music: All Rise by Denim Waves.

  5. 02/05/2025

    Orlando

    Locations: Victoria Hotel, 380 Victoria St, Brunswick; Edinburgh Castle Hotel, 681 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.Description: Orlando’s Sam Elkin discusses the queer indy disco at the Victoria and Edinburgh Castle hotels and its organising collective’s activism after queerphobic violence in the Victoria Street area after one of their events.Content warning: discusses queerphobia and violence.Theme music: All Rise by Denim Waves.

  6. 02/05/2025

    Out Cast Theatre, Mechanics Institute

    Location: Brunswick Mechanics Institute, 270 Sydney Rd, Brunswick.   Description: Director and playwright Steven Dawson discusses the production and performances of Out Cast Theatre’s plays at the Mechanics Institute, including Love In A Cubicle and Big Dicks On Stage. Out Cast Theatre continues to stage performances in Melbourne and overseas.Australia's Longest Running LGBTIA+ Theatre Company Website | Out Cast TheatreTheme music: All Rise by Denim Waves.

  7. 02/05/2025

    Pentridge Prison and LGBTQIA+ criminalisation

    Location: Pentridge Prison, 1 Champ St, Coburg. Description: From the beginning of colonial times queer communities have been targeted, criminalised and imprisoned by the ongoing colonial state. In so-called Victoria there are countless examples of queer people and culture being criminalised, because queer culture has always been bound up with resistance. This episode situates Pentridge Prison as a site of queer trauma and resistance around which these issues can be centred.Speakers:Noel ToveyEmma RussellTex McKenzieContent warning: this episode mentions or discusses police brutality, rape, suicide, homophobia, sexism, racism, and carceral violence.Theme music: All Rise by Denim Waves. Attributions: Noel Tovey interviewed by Dean Beck on ‘Word for Word’, JoyFM, 11 Jul 2014 https://joy.org.au/ourvoice/2014/07/noel-tovey/AI voice audio content from play.ht

  8. 02/05/2025

    Queer Futures

    Location: Brunswick Library, Cnr Dawson St and Sydney Rd, Brunswick.   Description: Many of the guests featured in our series share their thoughts about what a queer utopia and the queer future might look like.We hear from Hinde Ena Burstin, Angela Bailey, Annette Xiberras, Sam Elkin, Leigh Millward, Alison Thorne, Nastassia Jones, Alex Antunes, Steven Dawson, Mark Pendelton, Barry Solomon and Richard Watts.Theme music: All Rise by Denim Waves.

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