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 →
ANTI-TRANS TERF FASH DISRUPTED AND ROUTED BY COUNTER PROTEST
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 →
Queers in Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance Interrupt Labor Float in Mardi Gras
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 →
NSW POLICE ASSAULT QUEER PROTESTORS ON THE EVE OF SYDNEY GAY AND LESBIAN MARDI GRAS
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 →
FUCK PINKWASHING POLICE, PRIDE & PRISONS!
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 →
QUEERS MESS WITH MIDSUMMA’S VIOLENT POLICE PINKWASHING
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 →
BOYCOTT! BURGLE! BASH! MIDSUMMA
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
Sex Workers Redecorate SWERF Stronghold
In recognition and acknowledgement of International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (December 17), sex workers paid a visit to SWERF/TERF, Narrm stronghold Project (dis)Respect to deliver a poorly spelt message of disdain and disgust at their continued obsession with us. No Respect For Parasitic Saviours, Sex Workers Lives are Not a Project and... Continue Reading →
Queer Activists Redecorated key sites of transphobic cultural production and policymaking across Naarm in observance of Trans Day of Resistance
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 →
Reclaim Oxford Street
On Saturday night, Oxford Street was overtaken by Pride in Protests event, 'WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!' A few hundred people assembled at the site of the historic 1978 first Mardi Gras, to hear speeches and watch drag performers in a spectacular rebuke of far-right and fascist intimidation on our own streets. Speakers talked of the... Continue Reading →