2024 Australian Queer History Conference – Saturday 21st September

• Jayne McFeyden & Anja Ravine: Gender-disordered children: does inpatient treatment help? A found voice answers
• Franklyn Hudson: Post-mortem de-transitioning
• Ollie Cook: ‘You can be self-defined’: defining transgender over time in Australia

• Susan Potter: Side by side in the archive of queer feeling: a collaborative video-based method
• Steven Lindsay Ross & Nick Henderson: First Nations x AQuA : collections, partnership, and community
• Alex Emrys & Clare O’Hanlon: ‘He was dressed in black crepe-de-chine’: reading gender diversity in the archives

• Yorick Smaal: Life Histories and War in the US and Australia
• Jacobin Bosman: Lost Boys: Class, Crime, and Culpability in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Sodomy Trials of George Force and John Flannery
• Graham Willett: G’day Sailor: Queer maritime History

• William Dealy: John Wilson, the so called Great Eastern, although Wilson preferred Ellen: New evidence and new perspectives
• Sam Baker: Governance, Identity and the Founding of Australia’s First Trans Halfway House
• Birgit Lang & Katie Sutton: TransTrans: Exhibiting transnational trans histories

• Alice McInnes: ‘The insider’s perspective…’: queer thoughts on museum representation
• Rob Cover: LGBTQ+ collecting institutions, motivation and strategic intent
• Jessica Argall & Jonathan Kemp: Developing methods for conserving queer cultural material

Panel:

Deaf Queer Histories

Catherine Dunn

• Yves Rees: Towards a history of Australian drag
• Robin Eames: Transgressive performance: gender crossing in late nineteenth–early twentieth century Australia
• Tim McKew: Thou shalt not (and so I did!)

• Hamish McIntosh: ‘Not super-revolutionaries’: bisexual groups in Victoria, 1975-2024
• Michael Barnett: Chutzpah: The Australian Jewish Homosexual Movement (1974-1982)
• Robert French: Newspaper cartoons in Australia: a homosexual history

• Danielle Scrimshaw: She and her pretty friend: the hidden history of Australian women who love women
• Jean Taylor: Lesbian spaces
• Jacquelyn Baker: Grassroots women’s sport in Melbourne in the 1980s: radical feminism to cultural feminism within the Women’s Liberation Movement

Panel:

Thinking trans-pasts and living queer presents

Samantha Baker, Robin Eames, Sam Elkin, Adrien McCrory, Seth McKeller, Noah Riseman and Son Vivienne

Wikipedia workshop:

Clare O’Hanlon

Panel:

Rethinking ‘community’ in Australian queer history

Leigh Boucher, Geraldine Fela, Liz Laughton