Panel

Trans Femmes to
the Front

Sunday 19 April, 14:30 - 15:30

The Wheeler Centre

Auslan Interpreted

Missing that femme energy in your life? This one goes out to the girls, the dolls, and those who love and uplift us: we want you! Join activist and writer Sasja Sÿdek, Samoan Fa’afafine and Pasifika performer Amao Leota Lu, and speculative fiction author and journalist Jack Nicholls for a panel that brings together fierce trans femme artists to talk craft, identity, and what sisterhood can mean in today’s world. Programmed by guest-curator, and chaired by, Liz Duck-Chong.

Featuring:

Liz Duck-Chong (Chair)

Liz Duck-Chong is a writer, researcher and carpenter whose work focuses on LGBTQ+ lives, technologies, and the natural world. Her essays, memoir, and poetry…

Jack Nicholls

Jack Nicholls is a British-Australian essayist and speculative fiction writer living in Melbourne. They write with equal gusto about housing crises and haunted houses…

Amao Leota Lu

Amao Leota Lu is a proud Samoan fa’afafine and Pasifika indigenous trans woman of colour. She is an LGBTIQ community elder and leader...

Sasja Sÿdek

Sasja Sÿdek is an Indigenous Singaporean transgender woman of colour (TWOC), activist, advocate, and cultural practitioner based in Naarm/Melbourne…

This event is presented at The Wheeler Centre as a private venue hire.