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- Reflection on Anti-Sex Work Deportation and Profiling (Ft. Sonya) | Special Episode
Content flag: Sexual Violence, Police Violence, Intense Racism and Transphobia.
A transgender woman named Sonya contacted Pride in Protest's Damien from Villawood Immigration Detention saying that she would be deported tomorrow.
In this episode, Damien recounts to Melissa his chat with Sonya the day after her deportation. They reflect on the issues Sonya experienced - profiled, detained, and deported by the Australian Border Force during the Mardi Gras season, and discuss racist, transphobic, and whorephobic border policies.
Thank you to Sonya for bravely sharing your story! Sonya's ABC article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/nsw-sydney-villawood-immigration-detention-centre-hotel/104993756
Damien is a member of the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group, and Pride in Protest-elected SGLMG Board Director.
Melissa is a member of Pride in Protest.
Petition demanding an end to racist immigration raids, border profiling and turnbacks: https://scarletalliance.good.do/endborderprofiling/dignity/
Learn more about Operation Inglenook: https://scarletalliance.org.au/operation-inglenook/
57 min - Fight Back!!! When a Worker is Raped at Work | Provocations 2024
Content Flag: Sexual Violence and Police Violence
This session of Provocations 2024 sees Melissa (from the Feminist Liberation Collective), Charlie and Vivian (both from the Sex Workers Action Collective) discussing their experiences of sexual violence in the workplace.
In this episode, the panelists discuss the widespread issue of rape in retail jobs as well as in sex work, with Melissa explaining how she organised her coworkers against perpetrators, and Charlie and Vivian discussing issues specific to their industry, including non-payment and brothel work. The potential for organising against sexual violence through the union movement is a central point of discussion.
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The Feminist Liberation Collective IG: @Feminist.Liberation
The Sex Workers Action Collective IG: @SWAC.NSW35 min - Asian Migrant Sex Workers Against The Border Force, Racism, and Deportation | Provocations 2024
Content Flag: Intense Racism, Police Violence, and Wh0rephobia.
This session of Provocations 2024 sees Asian migrant sex worker activists Bee, Damien, and Na Mon talking about their experiences of the harmful impacts of ongoing anti-immigration racism & anti-sex worker policies across Australia. Chaired by Raven, the panelists discuss the Australian Border Force, Operation Inglenook, Racist Anti-Sex Worker Media, The Rescue Industry, and Anti-Trafficking Legislation.46 min - Sovereignty Now: Where To Next After The 'Voice' | Provocations 2024The first session of Provocations 2024, featuring Lynda-June Coe, Taylah Rose Cooper, Keiran Stewart-Assheton, Senator Lidia Thorpe, and Jarrod Ralley, sees panelists discussing the way forward for the Blak Sovereignty Movement in the aftermath of the Voice Referendum. Chaired by Jesse Smith, activists from across so-called 'Australia' address constitutional recognition, treaty, and the nature of Blak, Palestinian, and Queer solidarity.
This is the first installment in a series of podcast episodes Pride in Protest will be releasing around this year's Provocations conference.1 hr 50 min - Fighting the Transphobic Far Right: Who They Are And How We Can Win | Provocations 2023
The final forum of Provocations 2023 is headed by Evan and Dashie, who discuss the political background of Australia's far right and the recent transphobic attacks they have organized against our queer communities. Strategies for combating this recent resurgence in far right action are outlined.
1 hr 15 min - Queer and Disability Activism | Provocations 2023This Provocations 2023 panel, “Nothing About Us Without Us: Queer and Disability Activism”, has Cal, Margot, Mirri, and Robin discuss current issues surrounding disability organizing and its relation to Queer organizing.1 hr 16 min
- The Struggle for Safe Schools | Provocations 2023This Provocations 2023 panel, “The Struggle for Safe Schools”, saw Damien, Darby, and Dashie talk about the Safe Schools Program's past, and discuss strategies to ensure it a future.1 hr 25 min
- Gramsci: Counter-Hegemonic Gramscian Dreams for Community Minded Queer Socialist Teens | Provocations 2023This Provocations 2023 forum was called “Gramsci: Counter-Hegemonic Gramscian Dreams for Community Minded Queer Socialist Teens” which was a presentation led by Margot Beavon-Collin.The final presentation of the day saw Margot provide a rough outline of the evolution of our understanding of the relationship between civil society and the State, with particular focus on Antonio Gramsci's contribution to socialist thought and its applicability in understanding the Accords process as discussed in...1 hr 8 min
- Material Girl: Why Trans Rights Is Class Struggle | Provocations 2023This Provocations 2023 forum was called “Material Girl: Why trans rights is class struggle,” which was a talk and discussion led by Sophie Cotton. Sophie Cotton is a National Tertiary Education Union representative at Sydney Uni and is on the Queer committee. She’s been a staunch activist in the fight for trans rights and gender affirmation leave.
Cotton argues that class struggle is an avenue to winning trans rights, and that gender and trans experiences are a material fact in response to Kathleen Stocks’s transphobic book titled “Material Girls.” She recounts her experience in the NTEU and Sydney Uni bargaining campaign—fighting for gender affirmation leave.57 min - Truth, Treaty and Trickery | Provocations 2023"Truth, Treaty and Trickery" was the title of the first forum of Pride in Protest's Provocations conference, which happened on the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of July 2023.
This forum will answer questions about the political roots of the Voice. Why is it being pushed so heavily and by whom? What does the Voice actually mean for the sovereignty movement?
Hear from Keiran Stewart-Assheton, Yuin man and the National President of the Black Peoples Union (or the BPU), and Seth, a member of the Australian Student Environmental Network and Black Flag Sydney, to understand how this constitutional process ultimately undermines Treaty, land rights, and Sovereignty—offering Aboriginal people no social, political, or economic power.
Attendees of the forum were advised to explore the BPU's Voice class held earlier this year, to better understand the problems of the Voice to Parliament.
BPU (Director). (2023, May 10). 'BPU education class: Voice to parliament' [YouTube video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/g7obMSmU9rA1 hr 16 min
About Pride in Protest
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Pride in Protest is a Sydney based collective of activists who campaign for queer rights, refugee rights and Indigenous justice. You can reach us at @Pride.in.Protest on Instagram.