Jax Brown

Jax Brown (he/they) is an esteemed disability and LGBTQIA+ rights activist, writer and educator. His tireless commitment to LGBTIQA+ disability human rights and advocacy has been recognised with a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).

Jax utilises their experience as a queer, trans and wheelchair user to explore intersectional identities. He views disability as a socio-political issue of intersectional equality, access and human rights. Jax was the co-chair of Inclusive Rainbow Voices: an organisation for LGBTIQA+ people with disabilities. He has served on the Victorian Disability Advisory Council, Victorian Government’s LGBTI Taskforce Health and Human Services Working Group, and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Disability Reference Group. 

His work has been published widely online and in several anthologies: Queer Disability Anthology, QueerStories: Reflections on Lives Well Lived from Some of Australia's Finest LGBTIQA+ Writers, Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories, Growing up Queer in Australia and We've Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents.

Jax runs his own business in LGBTIQA+ disability rights and inclusion where he provides sought after guest speaking, education, workshops and training for community members and allies.

When not being earnest about social change he can be found reading memoirs and drinking tea, doing daggy craft and wearing a sprinkling of rainbow at all times.