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Kindred

Sat 7 Sep 2019

Benjamin Law + Alison Evans + Claire G. Coleman + Jax Jacki Brown

Brisbane Square Library

Panel / Love YA

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#Performances

Selling Fast

Sat 7 Sep 2019 - 11:45am

Brisbane Square Library

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories showcases some of Australia's best LGBTQ+ writers. The panel discusses identity, community, and finding your people and is moderated by contributing editor, Michael Earp.
Curated by Youth Ambassador Emily Winter.
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.

#Artists

Benjamin Law

Benjamin Law is the author of The Family Law (2010), Gaysia (2012), the Quarterly Essay 'Moral Panic 101' (2017) and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia (2019). He also created and co-wrote three seasons of the award-winning SBS TV series The Family Law and the play Torch the Place for Melbourne Theatre Company. He's co-host of the national pop culture show Stop Everything on ABC Radio National.

Alison Evans

Alison Evans is the award-winning author of the YA books Highway Bodies and Ida, and is a contributor in the new anthology Kindred: 12 Queer #loveozya Stories. Their first book, Ida, won the Victorian Premier's People's Choice Award 2017. They are co-editor of the zine Concrete Queers and live in Melbourne.

Claire G. Coleman

Claire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar woman whose ancestral country is on the south coast of Western Australia. Born in Perth she has spent most of her life in Naarm (Melbourne) or on the road. She has written 3 novels Terra Nullius (2019), The Old Lie (2019), and Enclave and a non-fiction book Lies Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the the impact of colonisation (2021). Her art criticism has been published in Spectrum, Artlink and Art Collector and in exhibition catalogues for NGV, AGSA and NGA and others. Her conceptual/video work Refugium won the Incinerator Art Award in 2021 and she will feature in a number of exhibitions in 2022. She writes novels, poetry, short-fiction, drama and essay and has featured in the Saturday Paper, the Guardian, Meanjin, Australian Poetry and many others. Her short fiction and poetry has been published in multiple anthologies.

Jax Jacki Brown

Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQ rights activist, writer and educator based in Melbourne. Jax has written for Junkee, Daily Life, The Feminist Observer, Writers Victoria, ABC’s Ramp Up, Hot Chicks with Big Brains and Archer Magazine. Jax is published in: QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology (2015), Doing It: Women Tell the Truth about Great Sex (2016), QueerStories: Reflections on lives well lived by some of Australia’s finest LGBTIQA+ Writers (2018), Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA stories and Growing up Queer in Australia by Black Inc. Jax is passionate about the capacity of #ownvoices writing to promote pride, resilience and connection for people with disabilities.

#Moderator

Michael Earp

Michael Earp is the editor of Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories. He has passionately worked with Children’s and YA books for more than 16 years, currently at The Little Bookroom. He has a degree in Early Childhood Education and a Masters in Children’s Literature. He is a contributor to Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories (edited by Tobias Madden) and his writing has appeared in The Victorian Writer, Aurealis and Concrete Queers. He also established the #AusQueerYA tumblr to coincide with the #LoveOzYA campaign, of which he was previously the Committee Chair.