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age’ve pored over this present year’s Midsumma program to create you a selection of occasions that seek to arouse argument and challenge the views on sex, sexuality together with human anatomy.


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Melbourne queer bookstore Hares and Hyenas features several releases, talks and activities throughout another thirty days. Significantly more than you’ll poke a dildo at.


From M/M to mmm: Women Re-wiring homosexual gender

Publisher C.S. Pacat joins writers Clementine Ford and Jules Wilkinson in a discussion about man-on-man love and erotica written by ladies and the arena of ‘slash’ follower fiction. They go over precisely why ladies want to create and study about homosexual male gender and relationships, the conflict over women using male pseudonyms while the developments within these genres both in posting and fanfic communities.
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Quinn Eades’ guide launch –

All of the Beginnings: A queer autobiography of this body

Quinn Eades is a researcher, writer and award-winning poet whoever first novel:

All the starts: a queer autobiography associated with human body

examines an existence marked by both trauma and delight. Enroll in Eades alongside Margaret Mayhem, Essie Thomas, Francesca Rundle-Short, Thomas O’Quinn James and Lily Sawenko.

because they delve into the deepness of your poetic memoir.
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Chilli and Spice, Curry or Rice? Component 2

The Australian LGBTIQ Multicultural Council gift suggestions a screen discussion with female speakers from a cross-section on the neighborhood to discuss several hypotheticals, tackling bisexuality, fetishisation and racism concerning ethnicity and sex.
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Singer Ross Walker –

Censored Nudes


Censored Nudes

Artist Ross Walker is interested in whether conservatism on social media has gone too much. In which he would know: a few of Walker’s very own mural art and photos happened to be taken off fb if you are as well provocative. It had been this knowledge that assisted to stirred

Censored Nudes

and prompted him to inquire about, how come pictures of flaccid penises have to be disallowed in public places discussion boards targeted at adults?

This is an excellent question, and an amazing opportunity for Walker generate this assortment of brand-new mural art, unique designs and picture taking that enjoy the male form in every its glory.
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Queer Identities


Queer Identities

is an element with the Queermance authors’ Festival and aims to explore the encounters of the different identities that make up the wider queer neighborhood.

Join pansexual author Susan Beck as she has a discuss gender variety, sexuality, asexuality rather than constantly installing in. Featuring Hespa, Park Ranger and Asexual Awareness suggest, Amanda Marx, Genderfluid Poet, self outlined male femme Mark.
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Breaking the Binary

Same-sex lured and gender diverse theater ensemble YGLAM check out the complexities of genuine gender expression in some sort of that sometimes fails to stay open-minded. Designed by a group of LGBTIQ young people,

Breaking the Binary

arrives directly from horse’s mouth and lays bare the realities of existence for youthful sex diverse and non-binary people in this Australia.
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Midsumma Festival
works from 17 January until 7 Feb.


Sabine Brix is actually Archer’s web content manufacturer and a social networking strategist when it comes down to Melbourne Documentary movie Festival. She is also an independent blogger and composer. Follow her on Twitter: @sabinebrix