Acknowledgement of Country

I acknowledge the First Nations peoples of the continent on which this project has taken place. I acknowledge in particular: the Gadigal people, on whose country much of this work was conceived and grown; the Dharawal, custodians of the land where I now live and work; and the Yuin, on whose country I was born and grown.

I pay my respect to the country, peoples and communities who have long preceded me in this place. I acknowledge and honour the living practices of storytelling and knowledge making that have been in use here since time immemorial. In the wake of which this project of stories has developed.

Finally, I acknowledge that the original struggle for justice in this country, is one of treaty, of freedom, of truth telling. I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded or extinguished.

The Research Team

PhD Researcher

Clue Coman (they/them) is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney.

Their research explores social imaginaries of queer justice and direct and social harms impacting LGBTQA+ people, applying frameworks of critical human rights, queer theory, and zemiology. They are interested in understanding and addressing the justice gap between the legal and institutional protections for queer communities, and the reality of their lived experiences.

Research Areas: Social imaginaries of justice, Queer theory, Creative research methods.

Supervisory Team

Dr Anthony K J Smith (he/him) is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, and Lecturer at the School of Population Health, Curtin University. He is a qualitative sociologist of health, gender, and sexuality, with particular interests in HIV, sexual health, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Prof Christy Newman (they/them) is a Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health, and Deputy Dean Research for the faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture. They are a qualitative sociologist of health, gender, and sexuality, with a particular interest in LGBTQIA+ inclusive health, education, and social systems reform.

Dr Andy Kaladelfos (they/them) is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law, Society and Criminology, and Co-Convenor of the Gendered Violence Research Network. They are an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in sexual and gender-based violence, queer criminology, immigration regulation, and homophobic and transphobic violence.

All four are founding members of CoPQTI: the UNSW Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer and Trans people, and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (Intersex).