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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">are pleased to announce the next in Deakin University’s ‘First Fridays’ Gender and Sexuality
seminar series will be held at 4pm on 6 July at <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/locations/deakin-corporate-centres/deakin-downtown" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">Deakin Downtown</span></a> (at 727 Collins St, near Southern Cross Station). </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">All are welcome to join us for afternoon tea before the seminar as part of a monthly GSS/LGBTQ+ Community networking event from 3pm onwards, sponsored by Deakin University Equity and Diversity. The seminar
commences at 4pm and will be followed by informal drinks.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The seminar series is free and open to people interested in the work, although bookings are required. For <a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/seminar-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">further
information about the seminar series and to register see our blog</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Indigenising Queer Theory</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This seminar adapts a Q&A format to explore key questions about Queer Theory in the Australian context. What are the origins of Indigenous Queer Theory in Australia? Are we queering Indigenous Theory or indigenising
Queer Theory? What can Queer Theory take form Indigenous Theory? And how does settler colonialism inform Queer Theory? Join a panel of four people who have been thinking and writing about these questions for an interesting and thought-provoking interactive
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/seminar-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">Please register here</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">About the Speakers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Maddee Clark is a Yugambeh trans writer and educator living in Naarm. They are completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne in Indigenous futurisms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Todd Fernando belongs to the Kalarie peoples of the Wiradjuri Nation, identifies as queer with pronouns he/him. Todd is a medical anthropologist who is currently completing his PhD with the Centre for Health Equity
and the Melbourne Poche Centre through the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne. Todd's PhD research focuses on the intersections of health science and Indigenous sexuality. Todd is employed by the University as a sessional lecturer with an academic
teaching and research interest in queer theory, health policy, racial literacy, whiteness studies, and global Indigenous politics. Todd is currently a board member for Hepatitis Victoria and a leading consultant across the public and private sectors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Laniyuk Garcon Mills was born of a French mother and a Larrakia, Kungarrakan and Gurindji father. Her poetry and short memoir often reflects the intersectionality of her cross cultural and queer identity. She contributed
to the 2015 book <i>Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives</i>, and in 2017 she won the Indigenous residency for Canberra's Noted Writers Festival. In 2018 Overland awarded Laniyuk its Writers Residency and shortlisted her for the Nakata-Brophy
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dino Hodge – Konstantino Hadjikakou – is author/(co)editor of six books, three of which consider indigeneity and intersectionality across either health, education, queer studies or social justice. He is a co-founder
of Darwin Pride Festival (1985), a life member of the Northern Territory AIDS Council, and an Honorary Senior Fellow with the Centre for Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne. In 2017 he received the Northern Territory Human Rights Award for Social
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:purple"><a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/" target="_blank">Gender and Sexuality Studies Research
Network blog</a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">contains recordings of past seminars where available and information about future seminars, usually held on the first Friday of each month.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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