Collingwood Yards
Optimism in Activism – Trailblazed: Transgender Conversations Across Generations
Through intergenerational connection and storytelling, this panel aims to explore trans experiences across time – where histories overlap and diverge, where knowledge is passed and revitalised. This panel will allow two trans people, a younger and an older person, to share their learnings, experiences and stories to continue fostering a rich interconnected trans community.
Rex Latoa-Paget
Rex Letoa Paget (Samoan/Danish) is a fa’afatama crafter of words born in Aotearoa, now living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people. His poetry and storytelling are his compass through space and time. His works are giftings from his ancestors and have been published in Tupuranga, Te Tangi A Te Ruru, AUNTIES, Overcom, No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand, Spoiled Fruit: Queer Poetry from Aotearoa, and Australian Poetry Anthology 10. His offerings are lessons, learnings, and acknowledgements for the timelines and traditions of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Latoya Hoeg
Latoya Hoeg is a proud trans woman of colour, who has been living in Naarm for over 33 years. Latoya is an elder for the Samoan Fa’afafine Community, and an advocate for LGBTQIA+ Pacifica people, especially for trans women. Currently working as a Community Engagement Worker, amd a Community Health Educator, Latoya was previously the Secretary and an advisor for Pacifique X, a Pacifica LGBTQIA+ Community in Melbourne.
Venue
Upper Ground Floor,
35 Johnston Street
Collingwood Yards
Collingwood 3o66
Accessibility
Wheelchair ramp etc.