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Sione Crawford, CEO of Harm Reduction Victoria, joined Thursday Breakfast to speak about the importance of supervised, safe injecting facilities in Melbourne and countering conservative pushback against these sites.
Phuong interviews Hiếu and hằng from Red Pocket Press about queer Asian identity.
Red Pocket Press celebrates Queer Lunar New Year (QLNY) through zines, food and gatherings. They share stories of queer Asian histories, ancestry and family in the diaspora. We're joined today by hằng, the curator of Red Pocket Press and Hiếu, one of the contributors of the Year of the Ox zine. This cycle's zine showcases poetry, prose, visual art and photography, and explores themes of anti-capitalism, connection with land, lunar new year ceremonies and the queer Asian diaspora.
Kannagi interviews TextaQueen about their new artist residency for queer, BIPOC, disabled artists.
TextaQueen is known for using the humble fibre-tip marker (aka ‘texta’) to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality and identity in vividly detailed works on paper. They are currently working on an artist residency for diverse and dispersed artists in their Collingwood shopfront studio called TheySwarm.
Priya from Thursday Breakfast speaks with Noura Mansour, a Palestinian educator, political analyst, community organiser and campaigner from Akka about Israeli apartheid and genocidal violence against Palestinians, Palestinian anti-colonial resistance, and solidarity with Palestine.
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Ivka, Frances, Kannagi, Phuong
