Queer Futures
Even though you may feel like a storm is brewing, there’s a movement behind you. You just have to jump on board and listen.
Due to unanticipated and unavoidable circumstances, Queer Futures will not proceed this Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 February and will be postponed to later in the year.
Hold on to your tickets for the rescheduled dates to be announced shortly. Otherwise ticketholders can request a full refund.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
It’s time to talk about our future!
Where does our community want to be in 50 years? Queer Futures ponders and imagine this through a collection of talks, ideas, discussions, and keynotes. Each session will make you reflect on the challenges of our present and consider the opportunities of our future.
LGBTQIA+ communities are strong and remain a beacon of joy, expression, and excellence in the face of damaging laws, downgrades in equality and disrespectful debate. Queer Futures aims to bring us together to realise the path forward.
These sessions have been innovatively co-curated alongside Pride In Sport, The Gender Centre, Equality Australia, Twenty10, Queer PowerPoint, FEM Presents and Peta Friend. Over two days of passionate conversation we’ll explore bold new possibilities, ancient wisdom, bright ideas, and avenues for creative collaboration.
With conversations ranging from sport to the arts, politics and education, Queer Futures will inspire you with diverse voices and LGBTQIA+ innovation.
24th February – Day One – Sport, Business and Government
Hear from professional athletes on their perspectives towards culture, progress, and practice at the highest level. This 90-minute panel presentation, developed and facilitated by Pride in Sport, will bring together current and former professional athletes from major sports to share what it means to be Queer in sports.
Session Two – Queer Leadership: 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Hear from a cross-section of queer leaders who talk all things pride networks, pinkwashing and the Glass Cliff phemonenon.
Session Three – Equality Australia and the Fights Ahead: 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Laws protect us, ensure our rights and bind us together as a society. They inform who we are, what we think and how we treat each other. Join Equality Australia CEO Anna Brown, Legal Director Ghassan Kassisieh and community members with personal experiences of discrimination and injustice. Hear their stories and how the legislative reforms Equality Australia is fighting for will affect you and your loved ones. When we change laws, we change lives.
25th February – Day Two – Perspectives and Purpose
Session Four – Speaking Out Against Anti-Trans Violence – 11:00am to 12:30pm
This discussion brings together trans indigenous panellists to share stories of the violence experienced by the trans community during the 70s-90s. Our panelists will share their personal experiences dealing with violence during those decades. They’ll also delve into insightful discussions about how the recommendations outlined in the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTQI Hate Crimes Submission report can contribute to the pursuit of justice.
Session Five – Queer PowerPoint and Twenty10 Do Queer Futures – 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Queer PowerPoint invites queers to explore and share an idea, current obsession, or ongoing fascination using a digital tool from a simpler time, PowerPoint. It’s a bunch of queers deep diving into highly niche content in a very gay way. For Queer Futures, Twenty10 and Queer PowerPoint collab to support young LGBTIQA+ peeps to share a glimpse of what’s piquing their interest right now! All the artists will deliver performance lectures about absolutely anything – the only rules are that it has to be queer af, and they have to use Microsoft PowerPoint.
Session Six – My Trans Story – 6:30pm to 8:00pm
From the personal to the political My Trans Story features proud trans and gender diverse folk from all walks of life, celebrating their complex, sometimes funny, often fearless, always fierce histories. Each story is deeply personal, told in chapters, and woven into the universal narrative. Connected by music and other surprises, this new season explores the commonality and uniqueness of each storyteller, along with the cultural landscape from which the stories have sprung. My Trans Story was a sell-out success at SGLMG Festival from 2018 to 2022 and has also been presented at Melt Festival at Brisbane Powerhouse and Sydney Opera House. Over 60 speakers have shared their yarns across these events.
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