Xen Nhà is founder and editor of Red Pocket Press, a queer asian publishing project celebrating Lunar New Year through zines, food and gatherings. Xen talks about Red Pocket Press and the upcoming Languages in Community Festival where they'll be sharing stories of queer and trans Asian histories, ancestry and family in the diaspora.
3CR reporter Pilar Aguilera reports from the Federal Court in Sydney, where former Chilean Secret Service Agent and Bondi nanny, Adriana Rivas, has launched a final appeal to block her extradition to Chile. The ‘National Campaign for Truth and Justice in Chile’ is an Australian-based community group (made up of victims and family members of ‘detained & disappeared’ peoples) who have been campaigning for a decade for the extradition of Adriana Rivas. In this excerpt, Pilar speaks to campaign member Elizabeth Rivera, and then to Adriana Navarro, the human rights lawyer representing the 7 victims’ families in Australia. This excerpt originally aired on Doin' Time on Monday 25th November.
Ness Gavanzo is chairperson of Gabriela Australia (Association of Filipino Women) and coordinator of the Support Network for International Students (SNIS). Ness speaks about the crisis of domestic violence that is affecting migrant women, international students and women who experience visa instability. Please note that the following conversation discusses themes such as violence against women and children and death. Please take care when listening and reach out to your support networks. If you would like to speak to someone, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732.
Bee is a migrant sex worker, outreach peer support worker for women of cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds for Vixen and AMSWAG (Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group) under the Scarlet Alliance. They are also a member of Justice for Our Sisters. In the second part of this conversation, Bee speaks about the different forms of violence perpetrated against sex workers and migrant sex workers and actions the broader community can take to stand in solidarity with SW, especially in light of the murders of Yuqi Luo and Hyun Sook Jeon. There will be discussions about sexual violence, so please take care when listening. If you would like to reach out to someone, please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can call 13 YARN on 13 92 76.
Sign the letter to stand in solidarity with Hyun and Yuqi here.
13-year-old Ayah and 12-year-old Retel, children of Palestinian and Yemeni immigrants respectively, speak at the Free Palestine Rally in Naarm on Sunday 24th November. They speak about how genocide and racism affects them as children, about the inequalities and unfairness they see in the world, and their future aspirations as activists.
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