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ReFRESH forum - Sexual Health and the Law

Professionals working with young people, the disability community, or people from diverse cultural backgrounds sometimes find themselves unsure about how the law applies to some aspects of sexual behaviour. This means that they can be unsure about how to proceed in providing information, guidelines, or moral and practical support to their clients and colleagues concerning their legal sexual rights and responsibilities.

This forum will explore:

• key areas of law which relate to sexual behaviours and health 
• some of the “grey areas” in sexual law and their impact for workers and their clients
• the positive role of the law in helping inform healthy sexual behaviours and relationships
• key questions posed to the panel and facilitators by attendees
• Knowing what the law actually says in terms of sexual behaviours (consent/sexting/assault/age of consent etc)
• Knowing how this law is implemented
• Creating a space where individual ethics and legal requirements merge.

ShineSA is holding a forum for workers to discuss these issues. Come along and learn about the legislation and put questions to our panel of experts including;

• Dr Peter Chamberlain - Senior Clinical Psychologist - Owenia House
• Trish Johnson - Criminal Lawyer - Legal Services Commission
• SAPOL representative

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When: Wednesday 1st MAY, 2013, 1.00 - 4.00 pm

Where: GP Plus Health Care Centre, 64c Woodville Road, Woodville (Parking off Bower Street)

Register: Online enrolment form is on the webpage: CLICK HERE to enroll

Complete the enrolment form by Friday 26th April 2013.

Fee: $20 (incl GST). An invoice will be issued on receipt of the enrolment form.

What has Star Trek got to do with GLBTIQ?

Does anybody remember Hikaru Sulu from Star Trek (played by George Takei)?

Well have a look at this picture he recently posted on Facebook showing the states in the USA where it is LEGAL to be fired for being gay.

Thanks George for this picture.

Gender : Navigating Masculinity

For those of you who have worked with me you know that I am constantly talking about 'gender' as a concept. The harm that our gender binary culture can create and ways that we can overcome this harm. Below is an article written by Kai Green on the website 'Everday Feminism' that is interesting reading. Kai particularly discusses navigating masculinity as a black transman. CLICK HERE

to read the full article.

“Straighten out your wrist, Brotha!” When my boxing coach yelled these words, I knew his call was about more than perfecting my jab.

I have experienced the demands of Black masculinity and the responses to my failure to perform properly are not alI that different from the experiences of failed masculinity that I felt within Black lesbian communities. 

But it is true, I am now a young Black American Male. People usually assume that I am somewhere between the age of 15 and 20. I’m 28.

The world is unkind to Black bois. The world is unkind to Black girls. But the way our gendered bodies are policed is different. Black bois are assumed thugs, thieves, rapists, and overly aggressive.

I knew this already, but I feel it more now like when I got kicked out of a Hollywood store because the owner assumed I was there to steal something.

He didn’t just make that assumption. This white man came over and hovered over me yelling for me to get out and to never return because “he knew my kind.”

I spoke calmly, but he kept yelling. I couldn’t help but think this man can’t see or hear me.

He could only see what he believed to be true about young black bois, and it didn’t matter who I was, who I had been, or who I might become. My future and past were predetermined in his mind.

I was the dangerous body that needed to be policed.

Semen Cocktails

I posted several years ago about a cookbook of semen recipees. Well... here is the authors latest installment - semen cocktails. Have a look HERE.

Disability/Sex/Intimacy video

People who are dependent or have a disability are helped in all the basic everyday chores. Getting washed, dressing.... But one essential and constitutive aspect of human life seems to have been forgotten: sexuality. And yet like everyone else people with a disability have physical desires, a need to be loved, a need for sex and intimacy. In France there are currently few or no provisions to take these needs into account, whereas in countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Holland they have existed for many years. Our film challenges the preconceptions that being handicapped means no sex, no physical desire or love. In a series of hard-hitting, moving and surprisingly frank interviews, we learn of the needs and desires of people with a disability  across France. Also featured are interviews with other Europeans, to show that sexual help not only exists, but that it also can be made to work.

CLICK HERE to watch the video

Interesting bird facts re Sexuality

Thanks to http://www.drpattibritton.com/2013/04/dead-duck-sex-anyone-just-when-you-thought-science-was-dull-and-dry-check-this-out/ for passing this on to me.


I’m not coming from quackery now; take a look (11 short minutes) at this insightful and hilarious, yet highly important serious presentation on the death of a duck in this Rotterdam scientist’s experience and what that means…..about sex, necrophilia, homosexuality in a mallard duck species and life itself! Oh, and glass windows…

Equal Play

IMPORTANT RESEARCH - Thanks to Frances Whaley for passing this on to me.

Dr Grant O’Sullivan the research officer on the Beyond Blue funded and Victoria University run Equal Play Study. 

Equal Play is study examining the sport and PE experiences of same-sex-attracted and gender diverse (SSAGD) young people between the ages of 14 and 23.

We want to see how sporting and PE experiences, from good to bad, impact on health and wellbeing and future participation in sport and physical activity. We hope our results will influence sport and PE policy and contribute to safer and more welcoming sport environments for SSAGD youth.

We have recently opened up our recruitment nationally and I am hoping you could promote the below e-brochure though your networks and media. The brochure has an embedded click-through link to our survey. If you copy and paste the image the link will copy too.
Participants get to tell their stories about sport and PE and can also go in the draw to win an iPad. The survey closes April 30th.

You can also promote our Facebook page and find out more at www.facebook.com/EqualPlay
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Much appreciation,
Grant
Dr.Grant O’Sullivan
Research Officer
(I work Monday to Thursday)
Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL)
Victoria University
Phone 61 3 9919 4267
Fax 61 3 9919 9480
Email grant.osullivan@vu.edu.au
Web www.vu.edu.au
http://bit.ly/15tjGML

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