Autumn edition
Summer is over, and now it's time to start thinking about the cool months ahead. It will all be hot chocolates and a ton of coffee for me – no I am NOT self-medicating! (Yes, I am).
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What does autumn look like for you? Maybe, just maybe, it could look just a liiiiiitle bit more queer with some help from our handy little fridge-door-calendar on the back page. Not to mention getting up close with the content from our awesome authors.
Now remember, as we head into these cold, blustery months, to take care of yourself – we are heading into seasonal depression season. I know I am feeling the lack of the sun already, and so, I'm getting my self-care on. You should too, here are some suggestions.
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MPox (monkeypox) vaccines are now available across Tasmania.
MPox is a viral illness that causes a rash. Most people recover within a few weeks, but it can sometimes cause serious illness requiring hospital admission.
MPox is vaccine-preventable. Two doses given four weeks apart is effective in reducing the risk of MPox.
The following people aged 16 years and older are recommended to be vaccinated against MPox:
• all sexually active gay, bisexual, nonbinary people assigned male at birth, trans people, and other men who have sex with men (including with cis and trans men)
• sexual partners of the people above and
• sex workers.
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Advocating for change
As many of us know, identifying as gender and/or sexuality diverse has, and always will be, associated with a wide variety of issues that must be addressed in order for us to live as our authentic selves.
Fortunately, governments and society have started to acknowledge the reality of our existence and it is now widely accepted that the ongoing discriminatory treatment of the LGBTQIA+ community must be addressed.
At present, however, some of the most severe issues experienced by gender and sexuality diverse people have not been properly attended to and/or dismissed as issues that do not require immediate resolution.
These issues include, but are not limited to:
• Exposure to conversion therapy practices
• Exclusion from the anti-discrimination act
• Denial of gender-affirming healthcare
• Non-consensual surgical interventions
• Pathologising of non-heterosexual and non-cisgender identities
• Over-policing of gender and sexuality diverse minorities.
Amidst the severity of, and lack of awareness for these issues, an important question presents itself: how can these issues be addressed?
Advocacy.
Advocacy is a tool for creating change. It helps us spread awareness of the issues and brings attention to how gender and sexuality diverse people’s rights have been disrespected, threatened, and violated.
In becoming involved in LGBTQIA+ advocacy, we can create meaningful change within the lives of all gender and sexuality diverse people, and, in doing so, assist in bringing an end to the discriminatory treatment of the LGBTQIA+ community.
The question remains: what does it take to become an advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community and how can we, as everyday people, attend to these issues?
Becoming an advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community requires two things: passion and dedication.
Given that there exists a wide variety of issues that are experienced by the LGBTQIA+ community, we cannot attend to every ongoing issue.
If you are passionate about addressing the mistreatment of the LGBTQIA+ community and are willing to dedicate yourself in any way that you can to support the LGBTQIA+ community, then you are capable of making a difference.
This is all that it takes to become an advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community, and if we intend to create meaningful change within the lives of gender and sexuality diverse people, then we must begin by advocating for change.
Here are some of the best ways that you can start to become involved in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and attend to these issues.
• Volunteering for LGBTQIA+ organisations
• Educating others about LGBTQIA+ experiences
• Using social media to spread awareness for LGBTQIA+ issues
Having made my argument, I must now ask: how will you attend to these ongoing issues and create meaningful change within the lives of the gender and sexuality diverse people around you?
Divine dyke
There’s an unspoken code they are breaking, when men hit me up, co-workers, friends of friends. When they suggest my body should rub on theirs, when they proffer their lips, when they corner me in the breakroom. Am I not already promised to some/ thing else? The whole of my body screams it, from my glamourless working trudge, the way I dress, to the way I haul and speak and yell. Butch as anything. But even if these men were bloody blind, they know already, because we work together, that I’m a lesbian, I have a girlfriend. I’m proud and unrelenting. I am sworn, and have been since puberty, to an allegiance beyond their understanding. But still they try.
One of my favourite Greek stories, is about the goddess Artemis and a hunter, Actaeon. Artemis is the Goddess of the wild, the hunt, of chastity, sworn never to marry. Artemis is swimming with the nymphs. Muscle webbed and soft, from rising, falling, sprinting, lifting. I imagine the sinew of her body stretching taut like her bow, before collapsing into play, diving deep under to grab ankles. The nymphs, bobbing and swaying the water, transforming into waves and crescendos of mist. Plllp, spirits like stones, bouncing along the slippery surface.
Actaeon is a hunter. His dogs run off, leaving him tracking them through the flattened brush. Spit and blood on the tangled coughs of grass. Finally, exhausted, he reaches the riverbank. Where he sees Artemis, Goddess of the hunt, forever chaste- naked, swimming, playing. He stops for a moment and gawks. And then the moments pass by, and he has been sitting there for minutes. Beyond himself, he crawls closer. Though he knows what he is doing is wrong.
Something feels very weird, about men propositioning me so bawdily when they know I’m a lesbian. I’m certainly not saying I’m the hottest chick around. Perhaps some men will just try their luck with anyonedrunk and dark and flowing. If a “no” can be looked past, so can the implicit refusals of sexuality and commitment. But there is something more to it. There’s a joke going on at my expense. They are seeking to exploit my oath, for a cheap laugh, for an ego boost, to get away with it. Who’d want to fuck a dyke anyway?
Artemis’ nymphs spot Actaeon, lurking in the brush, gobsmacked. They screech horribly and shrivel, wrapping her naked form with their watery limbs. It’s no use. The gasps of her body still visible through their transparent spirits. She gathers a handful of water and flings it at him violently. An act that could be mistaken as play. “Now you may tell, if you can tell that is, of having seen me naked!”
As the water hits Actaeon, his features transform into those of a stag. It is an agonising transformation, his nose stretching out fine and flexible, his ears, solidifying, reaching up to the sun, turning into horns. Later, as he sprints through the bush, confused and elated by his new form, his own dogs spot him. They tear him to shreds, his new animal screams echoing into the grotto.
I love being hit on. There are few greater joys, for me. The deliciousness of winks and nods. Being cornered by blokes who want something, is not the same sensation. I feel the boundaries of my oath being flattened, pulled, prodded, questioned. Sometimes I want to transform them first, ask questions later. “Go and tell them about the mixed messages now, bozo. If you can, that is!”
Their long hair sweeps inwards, short, bristly, grey. Their eyes become wide and eternal. Their body shrinks, limbs come inward, meat swallowing itself. A bristly tail, growing out of their Dickies, towards the sky. I envision a brand-new possum, lingering by the side of the road, trying to dodge Corollas and Hiluxes as it hunts down the vicious sweetness of banana peels.
Spitting and Hep B & C
Spitting is gross, but it cannot transmit hepatitis B or C.
If you have recently seen news stories about hepatitis B or C being spread from spitting, read on to get the facts.
What the media says
Recent reports describe bus drivers and police officers being spat at, whilst suggesting substantial risks of catching viral hepatitis from saliva. It has also been implied that people must wait six months before they get their hepatitis blood test results.
For instance, one article gives examples of police officers who had “half a year of uncertainty, anxiety and stress” whilst awaiting test results. Another article describes how a bus driver was “isolated from his own family at home until he was clear of saliva-borne diseases.”
Misinformation, stigma and discrimination
This article does not excuse spitting assaults such as those portrayed by the media, nor does it aim to devalue the stress experienced by the person on the receiving end. But it does aim to share the truth about viral hepatitis transmission.
We know that many people living with hepatitis B and C (known as blood-borne viruses) already live with stigma and discrimination.
If risks of transmission are incorrectly reported, whether through fear or lack of clear information, society’s understanding of viral hepatitis can become distorted, increasing stigma and discrimination. Consequently, people living with viral hepatitis may be:
(a) more likely to experience mental and physical health problems, and
(b) less likely to seek treatment.
How hepatitis B and C are transmitted, and the real risk from spitting
Hepatitis C is transmitted when a sufficient amount of blood from an infected person enters the bloodstream of another person. Hepatitis B is also spread this way, as well as sexually.
You cannot contract hepatitis B or C through casual contact such as touching, kissing, hugging or sharing food. You also cannot contract hepatitis B or C from blood or body fluids having contact with intact skin.
The likelihood of saliva containing a substantial amount of blood and it passing into the recipient’s bloodstream, such as through an open wound, or the eyes or mouth, is so small, that the risk of hepatitis from spitting is near-zero.
This negligible risk of spread by spitting is evidenced by a 2018 review which looked at all known studies worldwide of spitting assaults on emergency service workers. It found:
• There was only one plausible case of hepatitis B transmission, where a patient with hepatitis B spat in the eye of an unvaccinated nurse.
• There were no cases of hepatitis C transmission from spitting.
• The risk of an unknown assailant (in the general population) being hepatitis B or C positive AND being highly infective was 1 in 500, at the most.
How to protect yourself
You can get vaccinated against hepatitis B. All healthcare workers and emergency personnel including police officers should be vaccinated against hepatitis B.
Even if an unvaccinated adult contracts hepatitis B, they are highly likely to clear the infection without treatment.
There is no vaccination for hepatitis C but there is medicine that cures hepatitis C in 8 to 12 weeks. The medicines are tablets and most people have no side effects.
What should you do if you are exposed to saliva
Remember, the chances of getting hepatitis B or hepatitis C from being spat at are near zero. Blood tests typically detect hepatitis B virus in 1–3 months, and hepatitis C in 3 months.
You can get Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)—a medication taken after exposure to hepatitis B (or HIV) if you are not immune, which reduces the risk of infection. Although there is no PEP for hepatitis C, there is a very effective cure.
Dr Alice Lam, 4 September 2022, accessed from Hepatitis Australia’s Website.
The National Hepatitis Infoline provides free, confidential information and support: 1800 437 222.
Where do I fit?
Navigating gendered spaces as a masculine non binary person
As a teenager on the internet, I was often mistaken for female. “No, I’m a boy/a man/a male,” I protested without thought. I had learned –from parents, family, friends – that femininity was a bad thing. Yet I still flirted with it. Was I bad? The role I was assigned at birth never fit me like it did other boys. At that age, I didn’t have the terminology to explain why it felt wrong when my father proudly called me a young man.
I knew I was gay from around age eleven, though I didn’t have the terminology for describing what gay was yet. It took another ten and some years before I embraced being nonbinary. By then, I’d grappled with my gender identity in a Herculean wrestling match, never able to find a satisfying winner. Masculinity felt like an ill-fitting costume I put on to go out and perform to expectations. But I wasn’t a woman either. I knew that firmly.
When I introduce myself as non binary, it raises questions in people’s minds. It surprises some. I have no wish to undergo HRT or gender affirming surgery. I don’t find he/him pronouns painful, though I do prefer they/them. But I’m not a man.
The sort of androgyny – thin, genderless – that encapsulates many nonbinary portrayals in media is never going to be physically possible to me. I embrace jewellery and makeup. But I am also proud to wear facial hair. These are coded traits. We might as well assign a value that tells us how many points we get. 10 points masculine for facial hair, 2 points feminine for earrings.
They’re goals in a gendered game with rules that are both inscrutable and fluid. Pink wins you 10 feminine points now, but it used to win you 10 masculine points. High heels would give you a masculine high score a few centuries ago. Long hair flips back and forth every few decades.
I’ve chosen to reject the game. Nonbinary is not a third gender, neither is it a La Grange point between masculine and feminine where perfect androgynous balance may be sought. For me, being nonbinary is taking a step outside the playing field.
But the price of rejecting gender is the difficulty in navigating gendered spaces. I’ve been yelled at by shop clerks for walking into the “wrong” changing room lobby. I’ll remove my jewellery and tie up my hair before I use a male coded public toilet. When I see an event advertised for “women and nonbinary people” or “non-male people”, my anxieties know deep down they don’t really mean me.
In leaving the playing field, I can’t fail to recognise both the advantages and harms I carry with me. It is impossible to ignore gender's role in violence. I fear inserting myself into traditionally feminine spaces because I know that women have been hurt by cisgender men. Yet I also face violence and abuse in masculine spaces for failing to score enough points and appear masculine enough. This is nonbinary invisibility – when nonbinary people are ships charting a course in hostile waters.
I don’t know whether I seek to pull down the whole edifice. For many people, gendered roles bring them joy. They find happiness in both challenging and embracing them. But gender has never brought me joy. The game of gender only offers me a fruitless fight.
My social perception as, and ability to appear coded as, a man has given me privilege. But the protection of male privilege only extends so far for queer people of any identity. And it has also led me to learn I must fight to come out in every new introduction. Some days, I can’t raise the power to state it again – I am not a man!
Then, I let them have their victory and slot me into male spaces. When a class discussion on gender asks the “non-men” to contribute, I stay quiet. When a cousin angrily calls me a “mansplainer” for disagreeing with her, I mute myself because her privilege makes the battle too intimidating, and then, when I’ve proved I’m not a man, where will the original debate be left? Forgotten in the dust, my points discarded to fight just for my right to take up space.
Nonbinary people need space too. Space to just exist without justifying ourselves with every breath.
Kink corner
Since the beginning of time, we’ve all been a little freaky. Everyone has something, certain things that may be a little taboo. From nipple clamps to pup play and everything in between I plan to talk about it all.
Welcome to Kink Corner.
I’m Pup Kermit, and for a few years now I have been exploring the kink scene, including pup play, bondage and hardcore BDSM to name a few. My goal with the Kink Corner is to address the taboo around kink and to bring to the surface an open discussion on things not really spoken.
Over the next four editions of RedThread we’ll present on topics such as:
• Submission and giving over your power willingly
• Power play for dummies, how to role play ethically
• Taboo and the law, when kink can go a little too far
• Dominant and Submissive, not just about bedroom positions
• Just because it’s not your kink doesn’t make it gross
Let me go into a summary of what you can expect from these topics.
Submission and giving over your power willingly
Investigate power dynamics in a kinky relationship, from your stereotypical relationships of a dominant daddy and a submissive princess, to your more modern takes on kinky relationships of submissive men with dominant people regardless of gender. Read about the mindset of a sub why people enjoy being submissive and why people enjoy giving up their control and power for a submissive role in kink.
Power play for dummies, how to role play ethically
Discover different power plays in kink from your roles previously mentioned to your more taboos such as pup/handler and caregiver/ little power plays. Learn how to play these roles ethically and the importance of aftercare after entering these spaces.
Taboo and the law, when kink can go a little too far
Explore consent, taboo kinks, and what laws are in place to protect kinky people. Know what to do when kink can go a little too far how, and how to manage and discuss for future play so you don’t feel a scene has gone too far.
Dominant and Submissive, not just about bedroom positions
Touch up on dominant and submissive roles, how a stereotypical dom isn’t always what we think when we hear the word and how a sub isn’t what we envision when we hear the word. Read about how a Sub/Dom dynamic can come out of the bedroom and what that looks like.
Just because it’s not your kink doesn’t make it gross
Investigate different kinds of kink such as pegging, water sports, choking and pet play, and how just cause it’s not a turn-on for you doesn’t mean that it’s gross or wrong. Learn to be mindful of kink-shaming, Hard limits vs soft limits and why curiosity is the best thing when it comes to kink.
Welcome to the little teaser of Kink Corner and what to anticipate. I’m going to leave you with this recommendation: Watch the video by Watts the Safeword called ‘Kink 101 – let’s talk about sex.’ You'll find it on YouTube.
I'm proud of you
My little gobstoppers, Larger than life, lodged in caustic jaws— never be silenced, but silence them all.
For there's no failure veiled in the sweetness of a metaphor, for the hard-fought fissures that feature you:
The cracks on the pale surface of youth that reveal that rainbow, that soulful spectrum in you— of you.
For all your toffee stuck tongues and candied cold stone, for all your teeth cracked and cut, and born again, just getting to the soft centre of it all.
Life is all the sweeter for the core of you.
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ATDC TAS – THE ALCOHOL, TOBACCO & OTHER DRUGS COUNCIL OF TASMANIA
http://www.atdc.org.au/ Advocating and initiatives
THE LINK YOUTH HEALTH SERVICE & HEAD SPACE FOR PEOPLE AGED 12-24
http://www.thelink.org.au
57 Liverpool St Hobart | Ph 03 6231 2927
Mon – Fri 9:00am – 5:00pm
Counselling, outreach, case management, support for mental and sexual health, alcohol and drugs (incl NSP), family planning
HOBART COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE
www.hobartlegal.org
166 Macquarie Street, Hobart | Ph 03 6223 2500
Shop 3, Covehill Fair, Bridgewater
Ph 03 6263 4755
FAMILY PLANNING TASMANIA
http://www.fpt.asn.au
421 Main Rd Glenorchy
Ph 03 6273 9117 | Mon – Fri 9:00am – 5.00pm
93 Patterson St Launceston
Ph 03 6343 4566 | Mon – Fri 9:00am – 5.00pm
199 Mount Street Upper Burnie
Ph 03 6431 7692 (Tues, Wed and Thurs)
Contraception, cervical screening, gynecology, sexual health checks, planned and unplanned pregnancy..
POSITIVE LIVES TASMANIA
Advocacy & Support for HIV
0478 909 949
To have your service listed in this directory contact TasCAHRD on 03 6234 1242 or editor@redthread.org.au
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