Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈

LGBTIQA+ Disability Rights Educator | Speaker | Writer | Workshop Designer & Facilitator | Access Consultant | Activist [email protected]

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

[Image ID Jax on stage with Amanda the Australian Museum
Image 2 an email to me which reads “you are the one of the most interesting people I’ve ever heard of!” ]

thanks fan! 👏👏👏 ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🌈

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

I did a 10 minute power speech on “Service Design for Success- Strategies and Best Practices for including LGBTIQA+ people with disability” at #ANDCONF2023 today in Sydney. Managed to pack a lot in & got told by a few folks it was a conference highlight which was an ego boost!

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

I am part of a mural and audio installation alongside some other amazing trans, gender diverse and non-binary folks! ❤️✊🏳️‍⚧️

Tickets are free https://t.co/Od8wHcvQls

[ID jax sits in their manual wheelchair in front of a mural of 5 TGD folks]

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

@JessObersby 🌈❤️🎉

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

[ID image 1. black text on a white background Larissa MacFarlane ‘Practicing Our Pride, Remembering Our Ancestors’ may 26-july 8th, opening Saturday 27 of May 2 to 4 p.m. sunshine arts spaces, 2 City Place Sunshine]

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

Really excited to scoot across town and see this incredible art opening by Larissa MacFarlane's today, 2pm ‘Practicing Our Pride, Remembering Our Ancestors’. This exhibition of linocuts, badges, paste ups and video artworks celebrates Disabled Culture.
https://t.co/Os0dtYscWy

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

hey folks
A new human rights LGBTIQA+ disability org @rainbowvoicesau is having its launch this Friday in person or online! im currently the co-chair. Would love you to come along! RSVP below for a spot! https://t.co/tMh7HfXNMP

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

This amazing human who i have so much admiration and respect for is finally going to be able to have the body he’s longed for. He gives so much to the queer, trans and disabled communities now its time to give back to him and make him feel all loved up! If your able to pls donate

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

@1Phineasmaximus @MUPublishing @NoahRiseman @JessHealyWalton thanks Phin! I'll campaign for my local library to get a copy!

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

[ID photo of Jax smiling at camera with text Friday 31 March, 6pm-7pm we twinkle like gold panel discussion with Jax Brown and writers Jocelyn Bishop, Charlie Osborne, D and Marley Pearce].

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY! Hope all TGD folks are feeling celebrated and loved up!
If you are feeling like attending this fab free event TONIGHT 6-7pm Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre. Register below
https://t.co/clHmN87xGD

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

A big thank you to Crusader, Roland and all the LGBTIQA+ folks who have worked and volunteered there over the years and to the artists and community members who have supported this queer home. /8

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

I am so saddened that the Harehole is closing its doors in the coming days! It’s been such a supportive, accessible and truly inclusive space for me over my last 10 years in Melbourne! 1/

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

I will miss the Harehole so much, but am forever thankful for the years of community building and safe harbour it has provided to so many marginalised folks. /7

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

It was at hares that my partner saw me doing raunchy poetry all those years ago and so when I slid into her dms on a dating app she already knew I was the kind of weird she wanted to pash. So many queer and trans pashes have happened in that space, performers found their spark 6/

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

so that I could play a part in holding/creating space for others. Quippings was birthed at the Harehole, by Kath and Greg. we did so many fabulous shows there over the years thanks to the unending support of Crusader & Roland, always lovers & supporters of disabled artists 4/

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

I still remember my 1st time on that iconic stage, surrounded by other queer/ trans disabled people speaking our hilarious, provocative truths and the feeling of coming home to myself I had that night, how it made me want to take over the reins from Kath and become producer 3/

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

The harehole been such a supportive, accessible and truly inclusive space for me over my last 10 years in Melbourne! When I 1st arrived in town it was the place where I first took to the stage and joined Quippings: Disability Unleashed. 2/

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

Poignant article exploring the history of disability eugenics and institutionalisation.

https://t.co/5nuNvav5po

[Jax Brown (they/them) ♿️🏳️‍🌈 @mxjaxbrown]

A really important research report into the Violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of LGBTQA+ people with disability in Australia. TW: Obviously, given the report title, and the fact that its for the Disability Royal Commission, some of it is triggering, so go lightly.