Women of Colour Melbourne

Building networks of solidarity amongst women of colour in Melbourne.

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

THEME: RECLAIMING POWER - Surviving, thriving, raising our diverse voices 

For our third annual event, Women of Colour Melbourne 2021, will focus on reclaiming our power and raising our diverse voices.
Ticket link here
https://t.co/b6yd3ail39
#woc #wocinspiringwoc #wocevent2021

[MoveBeyondCoal @MoveBeyondCoal]

As floods devastate our friends in FNQ and 60+ fires rage across NSW, we gathered outside the @ANZ AGM at the Brisbane Convention Centre to send the bank’s shareholders and CEO a message - stop funding coal and gas projects that are fuelling the climate crisis! #endfossilfuels

[MoveBeyondCoal @MoveBeyondCoal]

Roll up to the ANZ circus – it’s a fossil fuel farce 🎪

@ANZ_AU has poured $18.6 billion and counting into coal, oil and gas since the #ParisAgreement.

It’s almost like these jesters think #climate change is a joke 🤡

#ANZclowns

[Move Beyond Coal Brisbane @MBCBrisbane]

We're here outside the @ANZ_AU AGM in Meanjin/Brisbane to demand they stop funding coal and gas projects that are driving climate disasters #endfossilfuels

[The National Gathering @yes23au]

On October 14, stand with the 80% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people supporting the Voice and write YES.

#yes23

Credit: Central Land Council, Sean Marsh Design

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Yes campaign hit back at calls from Peter Dutton & Jacinta Price for an audit of ­Indigenous spending, noting the Coalition conducted almost 2 dozen such examinations ­during its time in Govt. Dutton had offered nothing to deliver real change https://t.co/8dKvTH3R6s

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Speaking to my mum last night. She’s 83. This is her certificate of citizenship. She scrubbed floors and worked stations for no wage: just room and board. All for a better life for us kids
She walks around the Pilbara with her Yes shirt. Not one of her non Indigenous “friends” are voting yes. When they ask her why-she says this:
“Our entire lives all we have heard is “no”
Before I die; I want to hear Yes.
It means that much-and I cannot argue with that ❤️🖤💛

[Behrouz Boochani @BehrouzBoochani]

Proud of the Kurdish community in Australia for supporting the YES vote for constitutional recognition in this historical referendum.

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

“We all have Medicare. But we all have different needs. As POC and FN our healthcare needs are not met.”

Aged care worker Abiola Akinbiyi.

#WOCMelbourneGatheribg

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

Aged care worker Abiola Akinbiyi: Without the strength, resilience and skills of people of colour, the Australian economy would collapse.”

#WOCMelbourneGathering

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

Aged care worker Abiola Akinbiyi: Without the strength, resilience and skills of people of colour, the Australian economy would collapse.”

#WOCMelbourneGathering

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

Sugnandha Bhargava Chapman: “Leadership is stepping aside and make / cede space for marginalised voices, the people who are not there, asking where are they?”

#WOCMelbourneGathering

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

Sugnandha Bhargava Chapman: “Leadership is stepping aside and make / cede space for marginalised voices, the people who are not there, asking where are they?”

#WOCMelbourneGathering

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

Hala Abdel on ending hierarchies: “As a CEO I’m not the centre, we are all centres in our own way. Some days IT is the centre because we can’t work without them.”

#WOCMelbourneGathering

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

“Our power comes from us. Our land, our ancestors our communities. Our powerful matriarchs and our laws.”

First Nations woman Stacey Compton.

#WOCMelbourneGathering

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

Workshop: How to lead with power and influence.

Look at these powerful influential women!

#WOCMelbourneGathering

[Women of Colour Melbourne @wocmelbourne]

Our panel on Redefining Power and Influence in modern AU

#WOCMelbourneGathering

[jas shirrefs @subtitlefanclub]

Lidia Thorpe once washed pepper spray out of my mates eyes when they were sprayed protesting against inhumane treatment of refugees. Lidia was right on that frontline comforting people when cops used excessive force. #AssociatingWithLidia

[Debbie Kilroy - Lawyer #FreeHer @DebKilroy]

I stand in solidarity with @SenatorThorpe who always shows up and always runs straight #StandWithLidia #AssociateWithLidia #runstraight