Category: Women
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I Can Take a Joke. This Just Isn’t One: A Super Progressive Movie
By Staff Writers / 2 February 2026 Source: IMDB/Image Supplied Offensive or all for laughs? Proud trans woman Michelle Sheppard watched Pauline Hanson’s A Super Progressive Movie so you don’t have to. Written by Michelle Sheppard I can take a joke. I’ve always been able to. I grew up on comedies where nothing was sacred, and…
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Welcome to The Changing Room
There’s something symbolic about a changing room. It’s a space where we pause. Where we catch a glimpse of ourselves—sometimes in fluorescent lighting, sometimes through the fog of our own self-criticism. It’s a space where we shed layers, both physical and emotional. And often, it’s where we learn to sit…
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100 Women in Operations: Michelle Sheppard, Inclusion and Diversity Senior Advisor, The Department of Transport and Planning
Today, Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), an annual event held that celebrates the lives, contributions, and resilience of transgender and gender-diverse people around the world, is the perfect day to spotlight Michelle Sheppard — affectionately known as “Mama Mish” — as one of NAWO’s 100 Women in Operations! 🎤 Michelle…
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LGBTQIA+ Women come together at the VPC ahead of International Womens Day
By Dean Arcuri / 8 March 2025 Source: Facebook Earlier this week the Victorian Pride Centre hosted an International Women’s Day event uniting and connecting LGBTQIA+ women. International Women’s Day on the 8th of March is a day to celebrate women’s achievements and raise awareness about the issues they continue to face. Ahead…
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How Michelle Sheppard is Championing DEI Activism and Advocating Gender Equality
by Shalini Maganathan Apr 4th 20247 mins In a world that has yet to reach gender equality and an equitable society, there are those who rise above the barriers and champion the cause with unwavering dedication. One such remarkable individual is trans activist Michelle Sheppard. Michelle Sheppard, best known as “Mama…
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New PTAANZ and NEC podcast showcases leading female transport leaders
Women Who Move Nations, sponsored by NEC, features a wide range of global and Australian female transport leaders The podcast features Victorian transport and planning senior advisor Michelle Sheppard. Image: PTAANZ In a podcast series released by the Public Transport Association of Australia and New Zealand (PTAANZ), some of Australia,…
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Celebrate International Women’s Day with JOY 94.9
Friday March 8 is International Women’s Day, and JOY is celebrating! On JOY Breakfast from 7:00am, Rach Morrison will be joined by some of your favourite JOY women, including regular JOY favourite Michelle Sheppard, centering conversations around women, and discussing this year’s theme for International Women’s Day, Inspire Inclusion. Across the day, we’ll have a rolling roster…
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THIS GIRL CAN – VICTORIA
Subscribe to the podcast / Add to iTunes Presented by Michelle SheppardEmail production@joy.org.au Hosted by JOYs Michelle Sheppard, “This Girl Can Victoria” empowers LGBTQIA+ female, femme and non-binary people to get active. Across four episodes, Michelle chats to members of the rainbow community about how and why they get active. Whether a short walk,…
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Mish’s Mission – RADIO TODAY
October 6, 2022 Sarah Patterson Reporter It was almost a decade ago now that Michelle Sheppard was first interviewed on Melbourne community radio station Joy 94.9 FM about her lived experience as a transgender woman. Michelle – aka Mama Mish – tells Radio Today “As soon as I walked out of the room, they were like ‘Can you come back?…
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Change Our Game
The Victorian Government is committed to increasing the number of women and girls participating in sport and active recreation, from grassroots to senior leadership roles. The Inquiry into Women and Girls in Sport and Active Recreation was established in late 2014 to advise the Victorian Minister for Sport on practical…
