Category: Inclusiveness
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Side-swipe: the challenges of online dating while trans
“Honestly, it would be quicker to list the months I where I haven’t been banned”. Source: Supplied In March, Portland woman Ariel Hawkins received an email from dating app Tinder, which read, “Your Tinder profile has violated our terms of service. Your account has been deleted.” Hawkins couldn’t recall breaking any…
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MICHELLE SHEPPARD URGES EVERYONE TO SIT DOWN AND LISTEN – Surf Coast Times
TRANS woman and radio personality Michelle Sheppard has stressed the need for people to listen to each other in a speech at the Surf Coast Shire’s IDAHOBIT (the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia) ceremony. Speaking at the council chambers in Torquay on May 17, Ms Sheppard said…
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International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2018 – Wyndham City, Victoria
I asked to speak for 15 minutes of IDAHOBIT Day as well as raise the Transgender Flag. I spoke about storytelling and the importance of sitting down and LISTENING to one another whether you’re gay or straight and we as the LGBTIQ community need to be better allies toward each…
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We Want To Be Better… Allies
They’re pretty fabulous already, but they could always be better (but really doesn’t that go for all of us?) Each week the girls identify something they’re not super great at and challenge themselves to be better. So this week, in light of March 31st being Transgender Visibility Day, Annie and…
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IWD2018: how safe spaces create inclusion for all women
Published on 2 March 2018 Jemma Wight Production Editor, bluenotes To celebrate International Women’s Day, all week bluenotes will be guest edited by respected journalist and author Catherine Fox. We’ll be publishing content on women, their experience in the workplace and the future of equality. We hope you enjoy it. Creating…
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Proud. Being more Bull Dog.
Not many would know that I felt shame when I first came out as Transgender. I lost nearly everything and the unconditional love from my daughters and a few close friends kept me going. I’m standing over a word in this photo that means so much theses days to me.…
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Trans women in AFLW – the misconceptions and a little bit of science
I recently spoke to the Chicks Talking Footy show regarding my previous involvement with the Purple Bombers and co-founding Bulldog Pride. We discussed my long love affair with sports, whether it’s baseball or gridiron from my hometown of St Louis in the USA, and football here in Australia. Michelle Sheppard is an…
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JOY 94.9 FM Radiothon and IDAHOBIT with Michelle Sheppard on Mad Wednesdays
Radiothon and IDAHOBIT with Michelle Sheppard May 18, 2017 by Dean Since the Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia also happened to fall on MAD Wednesdays Radiothon edition we thought we’d get the lovely Michelle Sheppard to pop on by after speaking at a local event in Melton in the afternoon.…
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My Melton: Michelle Sheppard – Star Weekly
MELTON & MOORABOOL My Melton: Michelle Sheppard MAY 16, 2017 10:32 AM BY SUMEYYA ILANBEY Michelle Sheppard is a businesswoman, entrepeneur and radio host — among many other things. She started the transition four years ago, but says gender identity was something she struggled with for most of her life. What’s…
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ENTREPRENEURS TO WATCH IN AUS. LGBTI COMMUNITY
Michelle Sheppard (LGBTI Jobs) STAFF WRITERS — MAY 5, 2017 Experiencing struggles within employment as a trans woman played a large role in Michelle’s decision to establish LGBTI Jobs. Coming from a 20-year strong corporate background she found that after ‘coming out’ as trans she wasn’t taken as seriously. “People…
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