Invisible under our bloc on this year's Trans Day of ~Visibility~ we demanded change to the material conditions of trans and queer people's lives, not just a rainbow colony. Who have we become visible to? The (gender) cops? Who has become visible? The most privileged? The Vic "Pride" Centre represents institutions of assimilation that steal... Continue Reading →
Statement from Trans Queer Solidarity Our pro-trans counter protest out-numbered the anti-trans reactionary, TERF and fascist crowd by 3-4 times, who were defended by a large Victoria Police presence, but we moderately disrupted them A diversity of tactics across multiple groups was key to our success: from building connection and solidarity through dance and song,... Continue Reading →
URGENT: DEMAND NSW POLICE RELEASE PROTESTORS IMMEDIATELY At tonight's Mardi Gras, a group of trans and queer activists intervened in the parade to protest the Labour Party and their complicity in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. As the Labour Party float passed by at Taylor Square, they held banners that read "QUEER SOLIDARITY... Continue Reading →
Around 300 members of the community came out to Taylor Square on the eve of Mardi Gras to protest systemic police violence. We were met with violence at the hands of NSW Police. 46 years after the 78'ers first marched down Oxford Street, the police once again remind the Queer and Blak community that they... Continue Reading →
Today we awarded @midsummafestival with the "Bootlickers & Pinkwashers" award, which they have deserved every single year for their efforts in pinkwashing, genocide supporting parties, and excluding radical queer and trans communities from proceedings. Victoria Street Pride Party is funded by the Australian Labor Government, even though they push record billions into police, prisons, and... Continue Reading →
On Sunday, an autonomous queer "ugly rabble" proudly personally ruined police boss Shane Patton's attempt at pinkwashing the racist, capitalist, colonial violence of the so-called Victorian state. After their presence at corporate Midsumma pride was disrupted, cops quickly ran to public relations lies, parroted by the corporate media, in a shameful attempt to recoup their... Continue Reading →
Queer Killjoys found joy in resistance this Sunday flipping fascist tables at midsumma's crap colonial conference of assimilation - WE FLIPPED @victoriapolice @victoriapolicelegacy (rip) @australianlabor /@rainbowlabornetwork And the 'Department of [in]Justice and Community S[ervility!' TRANS LIBERATION NOW COPS KILL QUEERS: QUEERS KILL COPS Cops out! Of everywhere! Statement from Queer Killjoys
Last night on Monday November 20, activists redecorated key sites of transphobic cultural production and policymaking across Naarm in observance of Trans Day of Resistance 2023. The Victorian Labor Party head-office was plastered with the phrases "TRANS LIBERATION = END COLONIAL OCCUPATION" and "AID ≠ ARMING GENOCIDE" in response to the Labor government's lack of... Continue Reading →
Join Pride in Protest on September 2nd at 9 pm, and we'll be meeting at Hyde Park and marching to Taylor Square, as we gather on Oxford Street in a night of revelry and rebellion, in the spirit of those queer resisters who came before us. Oxford Street is our space—let's throw one hell of... Continue Reading →
There were two autonomous actions against gender fascism on the weekend in Naarm. On Friday antifascists confronted the far-right "Australia One" party's anti-trans rally in Treasury Gardens, demanding young LGBTQI+ people are erased from schools. Key leaders, surprised and pissed off, ran to the aid of police who later were poised to pepper spray antifascists.... Continue Reading →
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