Queer Displacements Conference - Canberra edition 15-16 February 2023

After the success of the 2019 Sexuality, Migration & Exile conference, the Queer Displacements conference returns to Canberra in 2023 for two events.

The Queer Displacements is the first and only conference in the Asia Pacific designed to comprehensibly foreground protection and settlement challenges of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) forcibly displaced people.

The 2023 Queer Displacements will foreground the leadership of LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced people and best and emerging practices of supports of these communities, all with a common goal of achieving belonging and ending displacement.

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

• Artemis Akbary, founder of Afghan LGBT
• Olena Shevchenko, founder of Insight, Ukrainian LGBTIQ+ organisation
• Marianna Polevikova, managing director of For Equal Rights, Ukrainian LGBTIQ+ organisation that evacuated LGBTIQ+ community from occupied Kherson
• Danny Ramadan, Syrian-Canadian author, public speaker and advocate for LGBTQ+ refugees
• Ryan Figueiredo, executive director Equal Asia Foundation
• Prof. Churnjeet Mahn, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
• Bamby Salcedo, The TransLatin@ Coalition, USA

These events are funded by the ANU Gender Institute. We wish to thank ANU Gender Institute and Humanities Research Centre for their support of the Canberra events.