Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 26 November
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
As our attitudes to sexuality become more open and accepting, we’re seeing an increasing range (rainbow, even) of sexual identity and expression become recognised. We’ll be talking bisexuality, polyamory and ethical non-monogamy. What are the freedoms of these different modes of sexuality? Is white-picket-fence monogamy stopping us from being happy? How might sexuality evolve even further in the future … what’s next?
Hosted by Cyndi Darnell.
A good event starts great conversations. Here’s your chance to stay back a while and meet guest speakers. Nibbles provided. Drinks at bar prices.
Middlesex: Queer Week
We’ve come a long way since the bad old days when any sexuality that wasn’t heterosexual, monogamous and sealed by marriage was kept behind the bedroom door and between the sheets (or up against the wall). In a week of open discussion and joyous celebration, we’re exploring sexuality and identity in all their alternative forms.
Featuring
Linda Kirkman
Sexuality educator and researcher Linda Kirkman has investigated sexuality, sexual health, and social change in relationships through teaching, academic research and life experiences. Through teaching and writing, she advocates for awareness of and respect for diversity in sexuality, gender and relationships.
Linda was Australia’s first woman to give birth via IVF surrogacy in 1988. Her Masters in Health Science looked at the effectiveness of sexual health promotion to young adults and she is a PhD candidate exploring rural baby boomers in friends-with-benefits relationships (which include consensual non-monogamy and polyamory). Linda is a proud sex geek and lives in Central Victoria.
Cyndi Darnell
Cyndi Darnell is a holistic sex & relationship therapist, counsellor and sex educator, with advanced degrees in Counselling and Sexual Health and a Bachelor in Adult Education. She has presented her work locally and internationally and is a published academic author and media commentator. Cyndi counsels individuals and couples, runs workshops and seminars on sex and the human condition, and offers insight into the quandaries of the erotic to transform fear into freedom.
James Dominguez
In 2005 James Dominguez founded the Melbourne Bisexual Discussion Group, a monthly support and social group for people attracted to more than one gender, and almost a decade later the group is still flourishing. In 2010 he co-founded Bisexual Alliance Victoria Inc, an activism and advocacy group for this often-forgotten segment of the LGBTI community.
Anne Hunter
Anne Hunter is a passionate relationships coach and is one of Australia’s most experienced polyamory educators. She has been poly for over two decades and with her partner Pete, she co-founded PolyVic, Melbourne’s thriving polyamorous community, in 2004.
Anne has coached many people through the fun and pitfalls of multiple relationships, and has co-authored a chapter on poly parenting in a handbook for health practitioners, LGBT-Parent Families: Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice (ed. Goldberg & Allen). She is passionate about raising the level of love in the world.