When
to
Where
Newtown Pride Centre
1 Bedford St
Newtown NSW 2042
Australia
Why
This Pride month, join us for a panel about the queer—queer as in defiant, queer as in radical, queer as in liberation—politics of resisting the illusion of a “post”-pandemic return to normal.
“Post”-COVID, we were sold the idea of the ‘return to normal.’ But what is ‘normal’? Seemingly, it is the ever-increasing cost of living, it is expansion of the carceral state, it is decimation of the earth. It is colonial and imperial genocides here and across the globe. It is the increasing technofascist takeover of every dimension of our lives. It is all this, whilst we continue to get sicker and sicker, our bodies being sacrificed at the altar of profit.
The pandemic provided a brief rupture in capitalist reality. They did everything they could to close that rupture, to disappear it, to ‘return to normal.’ Because if we stay too long in the rupture, it becomes a portal.
This conversation takes place on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Wangal peoples. We pay respect to elders past and present. Always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
We note that so-called “australia” was built through invasion, dispossession, confinement, and disease. Epidemics have long been entangled with colonial projects, and First Nations peoples have endured generations of state-sanctioned neglect, medical violence, and policies that have treated some lives as more valuable than others.
Meet our panellists
Jonathan (they/them) is a disabled and Mad queer person. They are covid cautious, with a particular interest in covid cautiousness as an act of disability justice, love, and resistance. Their perspective comes from lived experience as a healthcare worker in the early pandemic and a patient on psychiatric wards during lockdowns, and is grounded in disability, feminist and queer politics.
Kayla (she/her) is the Disabilities Officer at the University of Sydney Students' Representative Council and an organiser with Protect Our NDIS Alliance. She is covid cautious and has long covid. She is guided by principles of disability justice, community care, and building a better tomorrow.
Phobia (they/she/it) is an occasional writer and sometimes poet who moved to these shores from Mexico when they were very young. She is a retail worker and proud unionist on Wangal land interested in fighting plagues both pathological and ideological. Their writing has been known to focus on queer community and Internet culture, philosophy, and Jewish mysticism.
Danielle (she/her) is a disabled, queer, mixed-race lawyer, researcher and advocate. Her work is grounded in lived experience and shaped by the politics of disability justice and access intimacy. She sees covid-cautiousness as an extension of these politics and is excited to explore this more as panel moderator.
Register to help us plan the space, to contact you in the event contact tracing is required, and for us to email you the entrance pin code.
Access information
General access info:
- This is an indoor event in a large hall
- Assistance animals are welcome, and drinking water is available.
- The building is generally well insulated but there is air conditioning in the hall if needed.
- The centre’s floor is flat and is suitable for most wheelchairs & other mobility aids.
- The Pride Hall is on Level 1 of the Pride Centre, accessible via lift or a flight of stairs.
- The lift is narrow and can only fit one wheelchair or mobility scooter at a time.
- We ask that attendees don’t wear fragrances.
- We have a collection of sensory / stim toys for people to use and play with. These are regularly cleaned for hygiene reasons.
- An audio recording of the event will be made available after the event alongside a transcription.
COVID precautions
- Masks are required; N95, KF94, KN95, P2 masks minimum. We will bring some, but please bring your own if you can
- Hand sanitiser provided
- Please let us know if you test positive for COVID within 7 days after the event
- Attendees will be notified via emails provided during registration, if we are informed another attendee has tested positive
Register to help us plan the space, to contact you in the event contact tracing is required, and for us to email you the entrance pin code.
For updates check the Fannaan event.
Contact
C0VID Solidarity 'sydney'
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USyd Disabilities Collective (DisCo)
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