Sat, 16th May, 2026:  Son Vivienne, CEO Transgender Victoria, Priorities for the rest of the Year Facing Transgender Victoria

Sat, 16th May, 2026: Son Vivienne, CEO Transgender Victoria, Priorities for the rest of the Year Facing Transgender Victoria

Author: JOY 94.9 - Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Ally, LGBT, GLBT, LGBT+, LGBTQ, LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+ May 17, 2026 Duration: 9:07

Nevena and Paul are joined  live on air by Son Vivienne, CEO Transgender Victoria, as they discuss the priorities for the rest of the year as CEO of Victoria’s leading body for transgender, gender diverse and non-binary (TGD) people.

Son is the CEO at Transgender Victoria, a lead advocacy, education and peer support community led organisation and not-for-profit.

Informing this role, Son has a background in academia and over 30 years experience in media-production and research across digital self-representation, online activism, queer identities, and rhetorical strategies/feminist practices for speaking and listening across difference. Their work on digital storytelling is published as ‘Digital Identity and Everyday Activism: Sharing Private Stories with Networked Publics’ (Palgrave, 2016).

Their latest 2023 book is called ‘Queering Safe Spaces: Being Brave Beyond Binaries’ available here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793618849/Queering-Safe-Spaces-Being-Brave-beyond-Binaries

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