Queering between the lines

How far back in time can you find queer stories? Jacobin Bosman, PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, takes us through some of the early gay and lesbian stories from colonial Australia. While Ben Graetz and Jedda Ruby Riley discuss the impacts of colonisation on queer First Nations people and the erasure of their stories in Australia.

In many ancient cultures, there were queer people, there were gender diverse people.

Jedda Ruby Riley

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Queering between the lines

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Who they bend the rules for tells us a great deal about how sexual and gender systems actually operate in the real world from the position of power, but also from the position of people who are experiencing marginalisation.

Jacobin Bosman

Host: Farz Edraki

Producers: Laura Brierley Newton, Olivia O'Flynn

Sound Design and Mix: Laura Brierley Newton

Executive Producer: Kate Montague and Lorna Clarkson

Theme Music: What! By the Vovos

Art: Siena Zadro

SBS Team: Joel Supple, Max Gosford, Bernadette Phương Nam Nguyễn, Philip Soliman