Oceania Pride

Our mission is to promote respect protect and realize the human rights and fundamental freedoms of LGBTIQ people including the elimination of discrimination.

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

Wishing the colours of #Fagwa brighten your life and Holika takes away all your worries and fear.

#Fagwa #Findian

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

"Thank You, Mx. Isikeli Vulavou: Your Fight Continues in Us"
@PSGDN1

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

A toast to the holidays: may we enjoy our drinks but always respect our limits and cherish the memories we create.

Merry Christmas #xmas2024

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

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#TeamFiji

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

We are in Nadi for the 2024 Strategic Meeting of the Pacific LBQ working Group which is a closed meeting space

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“pressed for time and the dissolution of parliament clash that same day, it had no choice, and in the afternoon of 30th December, 2023 cabinet members, we saw to endorse and pass temporary special measures for women in the Solomon Islands” - Irene Kaumi #SOTP 2024

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

They're really, really bad, and they completely vibe with 19 century blackbirding, 100% no different. I'm not being dramatic. They're similar to that” -@KTeaiwa during the #SOTP2024 conference on #LabourMobility scheme
@anudpa

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“it's mobility on whose terms, I'm sorry, but the labor mobility schemes of Australia in particular are colonial. They're exploitative, and they're not on the terms of Pacific people

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

which was then unilaterally taken away the Australian Government in 2015 so without specific constitutional protection, self government just became a gift that was given and then taken away”- Anna Dziedzic during the #SOTP2024 conference

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“So Norfolk Island is another example of a displaced people civil moved from pitco Island to Norfolk Island in 1856 Norfolk Island is playing their own identity and sovereignty and as an external Territory of Australia, Norfolk Island's given degree of self government in 1979

[Katerina Teaiwa🔥🚣🏿🌊 @KTeaiwa]

An incredible Bougainvillean & Pacific leader just gave a powerful talk at #StateofthePacific “Land communicates, rocks communicate. Put land & environment ahead of the people for proper healing.  I do not ask for life support. Reciprocate & give what is owed to Bougainville.”

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“I want to suggest here, however, that citizenship pathways like dual citizenship and visas and rights of entries are really only a partial response to cross border displacement”- Anna Dziedzic of @IDEA_int_Py during the #SOTP2024 conference in Canberra
#displacement

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“I want to suggest that the real problem is the racialized system of land control that was established by the British and which is constantly reproduced in donor discourse”- Prof. Monson during the #SOTP2024 conference in Canberra
@anudpa

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

@KTeaiwa during the SOTP2024 conference on #Banaban community and phosphate mining

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“Folks like me and others continue to try to tell the story to wider audiences, so that they don't forget that this is a regional story. It's a global story. It's something that we can still learn from, but there are still reparations owed and healing that has to take place”-

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

Prof Teaiwa speaks about the #Banaban people during the Challenges of cross-border displacement during the #SOTP2024 conference
@anudpa

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

their relationships with each other, when that is your resistance, that you are living. You are the living embodiment of militarized colonialism that is our life in Guam” - Kenneth Kuper during #SOTP2024 conference
#militarization #Geopolitics
@anudpa

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“the daily experiences of being a militarized colony. It's about being a pawn in geopolitics. It's about being something or someone that is expendable, that your your precarious position in life is predicated upon how great powers view their relationships with each other,

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“…give us some respect in our own agency …it is really horrible to get spoken down to consistently, because we lack sovereignty, like we're the ones that are causing our own lack of sovereignty” -Kenneth Kuper during #SOTP2024 @anudpa

[Oceania Pride @oceania_pride]

“Very thankful that Ronnie used the word militarization, because that's exactly what we experience in Guam, 27% roughly 27% of our 212, Square Mile Island is currently occupied by the United States military”- Kenneth Kuper during #SOTP2024 @anudpa