Opening Night: LIB[ERA]TION

Mackenzie Lee is a queer First Nations poet. With Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and Karajarri ancestry, mixed with Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Anglo-Australian heritage, they are a creative whose ties to culture, country, and saltwater connects them to their storyteller ancestors. Lee writes a variety of poems in response and reaction to the world around them.

Maggie is a young queer writer of Gamilaroi and settler ancestry with Ngunnawal kinship ties. She makes her home on Ngunnawal dhawura, studying law and going to parties. Her work is a natural byproduct of her navigation of relationships with Country, memory, and women.

moirra. is a Yorta Yorta, Boon Wurrung and Jewish transsexual artist, writer and poet living on Wurundjeri Country. Xer work focuses on Blak Queerness and Queer Blakness.

Ari is a proud Kuku Yalanji and Nangu multidisciplinary artist with a strong focus in poetry and fashion design. The subject matter they focus on is the ways Love Studies coincide with Country, exploring these relationships in the experiences of Black Queer Peoples.

Darcy Hytt is a palawa storyteller and arts worker living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country. They explore relationality, futurity, power, and knowledge within contexts of queerness, disability justice, and Blak liberation.