Event Session - Panel: The politics of intersectionality

Day 2 - Wednesday 27th, 2:45pm - 3:45pm AEDT

Panel: The politics of intersectionality
The Wheeler Centre - performance space
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Eugenia Flynn (Participating chair), writer, arts worker, community organiser

Dominic Golding, Disability and Community Arts officer of Rise Refugee

Peter Waples-Crowe, Ngarigo queer visual and performing artist

Azizeh Astaneh, artist and President of Melbourne Artists for Asylum Seekers

Jax Jacki Brown, activist and Publishability Project Officer, Writers Victoria

Australian arts organisations and funding bodies typically treat First Nations, CALD and People with Disabilities as mutually exclusive groups defined by under-representation or disadvantage. What's left out of that picture? How might we think about these issues differently? And what would that look like for arts organisations in practical terms?

Panel (45 min) followed by Q&A (15 min) facilitated by chair.

Media Contributions

Key Points

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    Eugenia Flynn: Intersectionality is a word that gets bandied around. Without looking at compounding marginalisations like race, gender, sexuality, class, disability we can't effectively organised against oppression.
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    Jax Jacki Brown: We still don't have a vibrant approach to intersectionality.
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    Peter Waples-Crowe: The lived experience informs where I make and show my work.
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    Dominic Golding: External society determines who you are. They define you by your 'otherness'.
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    Jax Jacki Brown: I am sick of saying thank you for the crumbs that fall off the table. We should be at the fucking table!
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    Dominic Golding: Where are the obligations on arts organisations to uphold human rights?
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    Azizeh Astaneh: Refugees and asylum seeks are widely ignored.
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    Peter Waples-Crowe: My Aboriginality is often erased when I am working in a Queer context.
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    Peter Waples-Crowe: Sometimes I feel like a second-class native because of my Queerness.
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    Azizeh Astaneh: Diversity shouldn't be like a shopping list, 'We have a lot of 'those', do you have any other varieties?'
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    Dominic Golding: Mainstream organisations need to look at their own selves in order to be able to create space for diverse stories.

We would like to acknowledge that we are meeting today on the traditional lands of the Kulin Nation, to pay our respects to their Elders, past, present, and emerging, and to honour their long lineage of creative practice.

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