Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 28 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Queer cultures and identities can provide a rich sense of belonging for many. But what happens when you identify with more than one culture – if you’re queer and Indigenous, or queer and Muslim, or queer and Chinese? How do those cultures and identities come together? How do aspects of each culture shape your identity? What about when those cultures clash? Alyena Mohummadally, Noel Tovey, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Juliana Qian will share their personal stories.
Hosted by Anton Enus. #QueerMargins
Featuring
Juliana Qian (Lia Incognita)
Lia Incognita is a Shanghai-born cultural commentator living in Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri country. Her work has been published in Peril, Overland and Mascara.
As one third of the Ladies of Colour Agency, Lia has been lambasted on Today Tonight and thrown her hair across the Famous Spiegeltent, and she’s facilitated many happy hook-ups through writing for flagging opinicus rampant, a Melbourne blog that reinvented traditional hanky code from a feminist and pangender perspective.
Since 2012, Lia has been a presenter and producer for Queering the Air on 3CR Community Radio.
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is senior lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her primary areas of interest are cultural diversity, gender diversity, sexual diversity and family diversity. Maria is also founding member of the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council.
Her books include Someone You Know (considered to be Australia’s first AIDS biography); and two collections of young people’s voices, writing and art: Girls Talk and Boys Stuff (with Wayne Martino).
The two following research-based books, So What’s a Boy: Addressing Issues of Masculinity and Schooling and Being Normal Is the Only Way to Be: Adolescent Perspectives on Gender and Schooling were also written with Wayne Martino.
Maria’s other books are When Our Children Come Out: How to Support Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Young People, Tapestry: Five Generations of Women in One Italian Family, and Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools (a recipient of a Lambda Literary Award, 2011).
Her first novel, Love You Two, was co-winner of a 2010 Lambda Literary Award. Her most recent publication, co-edited with Bob Pease, is The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice: Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance. Maria is now working on her book: Outside Belonging: Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men for Rowman & Littlefield.
Noel Tovey
Noel Tovey AM has had a career spanning 60 years in Europe and Australia as an actor, dancer, singer, director, choreographer, designer, writer and teacher. He is Australia’s first male ballet dancer of Indigenous heritage.
He studied ballet with Madame Borovansky in Melbourne and Drew Hardy in London, Afro Cuban with Katherine Dunham, jazz with Matt Mattox, and singing with Joan Arnold at the Melbourne Conservatorium and Rita Godfrey in London. He studied acting with Hayes Gordon.
Anton Enus
Anton Enus, an award winning broadcast journalist with more than 25 years' of experience, has been presenting SBS World News bulletins since 1999. His career spans television, radio and print coverage of international news and current affairs in both South Africa and Australia.
In his spare time he's run more than 40 marathons and also plays tennis and squash. His favourite authors are Vikram Seth, JM Coetzee and Sebastian Faulks.
Anton began his broadcasting career at the South African national broadcaster, SABC. He was part of the team that covered South Africa’s historic return to democracy in 1994 and spent seven years as a correspondent for CNN World Report, where he won Best International Report and also won the prestigious Bokmakierie Award for radio current affairs.
Before leaving South Africa, Anton presented the SABC’s major evening national news bulletin. Anton has been presenting SBS World News Australia bulletins since 1999 and special SBS news events such as the 2003 nightly Iraq War program, the live studio debate on the Cronulla race riots as the stand-in host of SBS TV’s ‘Insight’ programme.
Alyena Mohummadally
Alyena Mohummadally is a Pakistani-Australian queer Muslim woman who spent many years as a community legal centre lawyer before recently retraining as a primary school teacher.
She is currently writing a cookbook on modern Australian cuisine with a Pakistani twist, and her two young sons are her favourite people to cook for.
She founded the Queer Muslims in Australia Yahoo Group in 2005 and has been published in journals, books, articles, spoken at conferences, workshops and has had documentaries made on her queer Muslim advocacy. Alyena had a long tenure on the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council Inc.