April 6th marks the 3rd International Asexuality Day, a day on which we celebrate the asexual spectrum, focusing on the four themes of Awareness, Celebration, Education and Solidarity. For me, the most important of those themes is Solidarity. This theme fits with IAD’s strong goal of highlighting those Asexual organisations and activists in countries that Read More
Category: Diversity Blog
A life saving and life affirming comic
Imagine you’re a young person living in rural or outback Australia. You know that you’re different from your friends and you’re doing research on the Internet to find out what is wrong and to find out what is different about you. It’s hard though because your Internet connection isn’t good and you only have a Read More
A humble request for your vote
Read why Angel Hellyer wants your vote for the 2022 Westfield Woden Local Heroes program, to help Diversity ACT.
National Volunteer Week 2022: Better Together
By Megan Watts, President of Diversity ACT One of the great joys of being both President and Volunteer Coordinator at Diversity ACT, is that I get to see the amazing work of our volunteers in a little more depth than most. And I have to say, I am absolutely in awe of what this incredible Read More
President Diversity ACT speech at opening of ACT AFL Pride game
Speech of 14 May 2022. Well – I have to say that when I was growing up in rural Victoria in the 1970s and early 19080s the concept that I would ever get to speak at the opening of a Canberra AFL Pride Round never began to speculate about crossing my mind. I’m sure you Read More
Asexuality and the fight for recognition
By Cat Cotsell, provided for International Asexuality Day 2022. This piece is based on my segment from the plenary at Canberra’s first queer conference, Canberra Together, in 2019. I’m going to share some results with you. In a survey conducted by members of ACT Aces in 2019, we noticed some patterns and recurring themes in Read More
A young person’s views on National Youth Week 2022
Read what Aster, one of our Queer Youth Together youth leaders, thinks about Youth Week and our current young people.
Religious Discrimination Bill
Today we have uploaded our submission to the Senate inquiry into the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 (the Bill). While the Bill is an improvement on the previous two iterations, it remains deeply flawed. It is our hope that the Bill will not return to the Senate for voting, but will be scrapped. Failing that, we Read More
Through my Eyes
A poem by Heidi written during Marriage Equality survey. Here I sit Quietly waiting, quietly dreading, quietly crying inside whilst my precious and private life becomes public and banter. Reading, hearing, seeing the words of debate and sometimes hate slowly old memories and emotions resurface, teasing and testing me yet again. As I wave Read More
2021 Wear It Purple Trivia
Many thanks to everyone who participated in the Wear It Purple Trivia night. Congratulations to Team Purple Haze on their outstanding first place with 30,769 points. You can see all the Trivia Scores. Tickets sales raised over $800 to support LGBTIAQ+ young people, and a substantial donation has been made to the Wear It Purple Foundation.