This is a summer re-broadcast of a Women On The Line program first broadcast on 18 July 2008.
On today’s program, girls will be boys. We take a look at Melbourne’s Drag King culture. Since 1978 the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives has been collecting and preserving Australia’s queer history. This year, its annual Homosexual Histories Conference was held in Melbourne, where Roberta Foster and Bree Taber presented papers on Melbourne’s Drag King culture, which since June 2000 has centred around a club night called King Victoria. Also in the program, I speak to Selina Jenkins, who has regularly performed at King Victoria as cocky young homeboy Braydon, and sensitive country boy, Beau Heartbreaker.

This is a summer re-broadcast of a Women On The Line program first broadcast on 27 June 2008.
Activists from Okinawa and Guam are united in their opposition to the presence of U.S. military bases on their lands. Maki Yonaha was born in Okinawa and now lives in Australia, where she is a member of the group Japanese For Peace. And Dr. Lisa Natividad is a professor at the University of Guam, and an activist for her people, the indigenous Chamoru. Both women were speakers at an activist workshop in Melbourne, “Militarisation: Guam and the Pacific”.