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Accessing Your Story: A writing workshop with Nevo Zisin

Brunswick Library (TBC) Sydney Rd & Dawson St, Brunswick, VIC, Australia

This event is part of Merri-bek Libraries' Trans Awareness Week programming and is intended for participants who identify as transgender and/or gender diverse. Join acclaimed writer Nevo Zisin (they/them) to learn about finding your authorial voice, connecting with the self through writing and the process of validating one’s own emotions and memories. With brief discussion […]

Free

Queering Kylie

Hares & Hyenas Victorian Pride Centre 79 – 81 Fitzroy Street, St. Kilda, VIC, Australia

Celebrating the release of Spinning Around – The Kylie Playlist with readings by some of the queer authors. Australian icon Kylie Minogue is the musical muse for this sparkling new anthology. Twenty-four writers, a third of whom identify as LGBTQIA+, used a Kylie Minogue song as the springboard for a new, original piece of work, […]

$5 – $10

Book Launch of ‘Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation and Resistance’ by Dr Zahra Stardust

Hares & Hyenas Victorian Pride Centre 79 – 81 Fitzroy Street, St. Kilda, VIC, Australia

Join us in celebrating the launch of Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation and Resistance by Dr Zahra Stardust on Thursday 5 December in conversation with Frankie Van Kan. “There is no one better positioned to tell the story of the indie porn revolution than porn practitioner and scholar Zahra Stardust. From porn sets to festivals, to […]

$5 – $10
Event Series Trans and Gender-diverse Book Club

Trans and Gender-diverse Book Club

Thorne Habour Health 200 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia

The TGD Book Club offers trans and gender-diverse people a safe, welcoming space to share and explore deeper meanings, ideas & reflections on your gender journey and explore trans/non-binary culture and books with peers. Members decide the books and we link to free online readings and library holdings, so it’s super accessible and cheap! It’s […]

Free

Event Series Trans and Gender-diverse Book Club

Trans and Gender-diverse Book Club

Thorne Habour Health 200 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia

The TGD Book Club offers trans and gender-diverse people a safe, welcoming space to share and explore deeper meanings, ideas & reflections on your gender journey and explore trans/non-binary culture and books with peers. Members decide the books and we link to free online readings and library holdings, so it’s super accessible and cheap! It’s […]

Free

SHIFT: A Queer Symposia

SeventhGallery 213-215 Church Street, Richmond, VIC, Australia

SHIFT: A Queer Symposia, is a series of events to create a space for discourse, exchange, & solidarity within the LGBTIQA+ community. Co-designed with the queer community, SHIFT transforms perspectives through art, film, workshops, & panels on diverse queer issues & experiences. Presented by Seventh Gallery, a non-profit space primarily run by volunteers in Richmond. […]

Free

Port Phillip Library’s Rainbow Storytime

St Kilda Library 150 Carlisle Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

Celebrate Midsumma at Rainbow Storytime! Our library team will share books and songs with LGBTQIA+ themed stories centered on family, community, and friendship. All families welcome! Suitable to all children aged 0 - 5, their families and carers.

Free
Event Series Trans and Gender-diverse Book Club

Trans and Gender-diverse Book Club

Thorne Habour Health 200 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia

The TGD Book Club offers trans and gender-diverse people a safe, welcoming space to share and explore deeper meanings, ideas & reflections on your gender journey and explore trans/non-binary culture and books with peers. Members decide the books and we link to free online readings and library holdings, so it’s super accessible and cheap! It’s […]

Free

Event Series Trans and Gender-diverse Book Club

Trans and Gender-diverse Book Club

Thorne Habour Health 200 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia

The TGD Book Club offers trans and gender-diverse people a safe, welcoming space to share and explore deeper meanings, ideas & reflections on your gender journey and explore trans/non-binary culture and books with peers. Members decide the books and we link to free online readings and library holdings, so it’s super accessible and cheap! It’s […]

Free

Celebrating IWD 2025: ‘In Conversation’ Panel with ROAR Ambassadors; Kate Ceberano, Ella Hooper & Tania Doko

MemoMusic Hall 88 Acland St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia

Join us for an intimate and inspiring morning to celebrate International Women’s Day, as three of Australia’s most influential female voices—Kate Ceberano AM, Ella Hooper, and Tania Doko—come together for a thought-provoking conversation about equality, empowerment, and action. Presented in partnership with City of Port Phillip, this exclusive panel features the three official ROAR FEST […]

$35

Celebrating IWD 2025: ‘In Conversation’ Panel with ROAR Ambassadors; Kate Ceberano, Ella Hooper & Tania Doko

Join us for an intimate and inspiring morning to celebrate International Women’s Day, as three of Australia’s most influential female voices—Kate Ceberano AM, Ella Hooper, and Tania Doko—come together for a thought-provoking conversation about equality, empowerment, and action. Presented in partnership with City of Port Phillip, this exclusive panel features the three official ROAR FEST […]

$35

DJUNA

Written by Eva Rees Presented by Bullet Heart Club and Darebin Arts Speakeasy A razor-sharp trans thriller. “Nervous? How could you not be?” From the cutting-edge queer theatremakers that brought Melbourne The Inheritance, In The Club and The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, comes a razor-sharp new collaboration with trans playwright Eva Rees. […]

$10 – $38

Author Talk: Ernest Price ‘The Pyramid of Needs’

Bradmill Bradmill Sales Office, 355-359 Francis St, Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

Join Maribyrnong Libraries for a conversation with author Ernest Price exploring the rich literary world of Melbourne’s west, featuring a reading from Price's debut novel, The Pyramid of Needs. The evening will include a Q&A with the author, with light refreshments provided. Please note, this event will take place offsite at the Bradmill Sales Office, […]

Free

The Buried Life

The Forum, Victorian Pride Centre 19-81 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

To mark the publication of The Buried Life, Hares and Hyenas are hosting a chat between Andrea Goldsmith & Dennis Altman. 'A rumination on death and the complexity of love from one of our nation’s most brilliant minds.' Marieke Hardy In The Buried Life, Andrea Goldsmith brilliantly dissects the conflicts and complexities of contemporary life […]

$5.00 – $10.00