Shine SA 'LOVE' photo competetion

In support of Adelaide's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender, Intersex, Queer communities, SHine SA is running a digital photograph competition during this year's FEAST celebrations. We are looking for all those budding amateur photographers out there. Send in your favourite photograph(s) that fit under the theme of 'LOVE'. This might be a picture of you and a partner, you and a friend, family member, or something completely different - whatever love means to you. Whatever you choose, we want to see it.What's in it for you?? Exposure for your art, celebrating love and you may even win the prize of $250. This competition runs for a period of one month from 10 October until 10 November 2007 and will be judged by the SHine SA Feast committee made up of Youth Advisory Team members and staff members.(The competetion is only available to South Australian Residents) Every week during the competition all submitted photographs will be displayed on a flickr site. The photograph MUST be taken by yourself. By entering a photograph you are acknowledging that the photograph was taken by yourself, and is not from a copyrighted source. You also agree to let SHine SA use the photograph in any future publicity such as brochures, annual reports, on our website etc.

To download a brochure and registration form go here.

Vicarious trauma

Have you ever felt really down from the things you hear or see at your work?? This is a really good link to describe 'vicarious trauma' This is one of the things that really works insiduously on workers in the human services. It is also often something that organisations dont deal with very well. For me stories of abuse/assault/violence trigger strong responses and I have been known to be really traumatised by the stories that people have told me. If you are interested read on!!

Vicarious trauma is related to concepts such as 'emotional exhaustion', 'burnout', 'compassion fatigue', 'secondary traumatisation' and 'counter-transference', but some key differences exist between some of these concepts (see Dunkley and Whelan, 2006). It can also be expressed as 'feeling heavy', or when the work (or an aspect of the work) 'gets inside you'. Click here to read more.

A short movie of domestic violence.

This movie was made by students in Buffalo New York, USA. Does anyone know of something like this made in South Australia?

Does anyone see this as being useful??

Whats happening with male contraceptive?

Want to know the latest in male contraceptive?

For decades, pundits have predicted new contraceptives for men within the next 5 to10 years. Are we really getting any closer? Judging from work presented at the second "Future of Male Contraception" conference, the answer may finally be yes.

Have a look here to read more

Latest SE&Xers

Here is a photo of the latest bunch of workers from around South Australia to comlete the SE&X course. What a good bunch it is too.