The Victoria Legal Aid library is running an in-conversation with me for Library Week. Please join us for an informal chat about transition narratives, LGBTIQA+ experiences of the justice system and the law in general.
Date: Thursday, 1 August
Time: 1-2pm, zoom (AEST)
RSVP to Library@vla.vic.gov.au for zoom link.
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Category: Writing
From anti-trans rallies, global attacks on trans health care,
exclusion of trans athletes, doxing and campaigns of online hate and
disinformation, the rights of trans and gender diverse people in
Australia in 2024 feels increasingly precarious. In this talk, we’ll
discuss some of the current challenges facing the trans and gender
diverse community in Australia, including discrimination, unaffordable
healthcare, higher rates of homelessness and lack of employment
opportunities. We’ll consider current opportunities to mobilise
against hate such as the Rainbow Community Angels safety initiative,
peer support projects like the Key Change Choir and the Trans Justice
Project’s inaugural organising retreat....See More
About the Book:
In Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, Elkin relates his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgender lawyer in the aftermath of the 2017 marriage equality postal survey.
As the inaugural lawyer of Victoria’s queer law service, Elkin is quickly immersed in thorny debates around trans inclusion in sport, children’s access to puberty blockers, birth certificate law reform and the Christian right’s demand for enhanced religious freedoms. ...See More
I’VE BEEN WRITING in journals for the last twenty years, and my piles of completed notebooks are getting bigger, heavier, more cumbersome. The contents are a combination of teary confessions and notes for half-completed short stories, interspersed with black, swirling, anxiety-ridden doodles. ...See More
I didn’t notice that his fly was down at first. I thought maybe he was a bit out of it as he leaned on the front window to support himself. I peered at his face from the other side of the glass. He looked serene, beatific even, with a soft, gentle grin on his face. Then I saw the puddle forming beneath him......See More
Last Saturday, March 18, 2023, opposing rallies met outside Parliament House in Melbourne. They were ragtag bunches of loosely aligned people, the groups split into two by dozens of police officers......See More
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A HIP PINK and teal mural appeared outside the St Albans Woolworths in Melbourne’s outer north-west recently. In the image a young woman in a patterned headscarf and sneakers squats by a small child, perhaps her daughter, as they separate organic from recyclable waste... ...See More
In a moment of growing backlash towards the transgender community, I’ve been drawn to the history books. The story of a Victorian man whose death in 1893 became a sensationalised headline reminds us that gender non-conforming people have always been here....See More
'Brandon of the Never Ever' in No Love Lost - A zine mausoleum for love poems that have not stood the test of time....See More
Excerpt from Detachable Penis: Gender Dismembered
WHEN I FINALLY got up the courage to call Mum to tell her I was on
testosterone, she took a long pause before responding.......See More
I am a man in a car and he is a cat in a bag.
It's a nice bag; rich, chestnutty pleather, and ample air-holes for breathing. Two plastic viewing stations on either side; you could get lost in all the possibilities. A minimalist masculine metrosexual's catty bag, bought in more prosperous times....See More
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My story 'Elasticity' is part of Resilience, an anthology of poetry, fiction and essays by Mascara Literary Review and Ultimo Press...See More
My story 'Bindoon' about life at the Catholic Agricultural College in Bindoon, WA...See More
The Monster of Ravenna...See More
CREATIVE NON FICTION...See More
Creative Non-Fiction...See More
The Guilty Pleasure of the Aldi Mystery Aisle...See More
KAYA WILSON – AS BEAUTIFUL AS ANY OTHER...See More
BODY LANGUAGE - FACIAL FAT DEPOSITS MAKETH THE MAN...See More
The sad stats - The trauma of community law featured in the states of mind edition of the Griffith Review...See More
‘Soft Borders, Hard Edges’ is a special edition of australian LGBTIQA+ journal focusing on the trans and gender diverse community...See More
THE EVIDENCE – FEATURED IN Antithesis VOL.30. ANTITHESIS is Australia’s long-running graduate journal of contemporary theory, criticism and culture...See More
TRANSGENDER RIGHTS/VIOLENCE - We want more justice for Mhelody than the system can ever give to her...See More
our plague year - CORONAVIRUS/HEALTH/HISTORY...See More
Trans masc writers: Looking for stories like mine...See More
The first Pride March in Footscray was everything a Pride March should be...See More
i’ll ride with you - Working at a community legal centre, Sam makes an unlikely friend...See More
How a car crash helped Sam transition into his true self...See More
creative non fiction - Passport Control...See More
