Queering the ANU - Celebrate your passion, your pride

This year, we are inviting all of you to join us in celebrating your passion, your pride. Whether you can make it in person or are ready to join online, all attendees are welcome. 

 

Starting off the night with 5-minute pitches of passion, we have invited a selection of representatives from all walks of our ANU Queer community to come together and share their pride points. 

 

From Queer research at ANU to moments of pride for achievements out in the community – we are gearing up to celebrate it all. Following our pitches of passion, our in person and virtual attendees will be invited to separate into groups and share their passions over nibbles. 

 

Don’t miss out on this celebration of our ANU Queer community hosted by our ANU LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network in partnership with the Pinnacle Foundation, the Queer Department and the LGBTIQA+ Ally Network, don’t miss this special way to celebrate Wear It Purple Day with your ANU community. 

 

Please make sure to dress up in your favourite purple ensemble!  

A special ANU merch pack will go to the best dressed as judged by representatives from each of our partners.

 

Our speakers include:

  • Heidi Yates (She/Her), 2022 ANU Alumna of the Year, and former inaugural chair of the ACT LGBTIQA+ Ministerial Advisory Council

  • Jemma Rule (She/They), Youth & Gender Equity Advocate and ANUSA Queer* Social Officer

  • David Plummer AM (He/Him), former Professorial Fellow at James Cook University, former Professor in Medicine and Head of Public Health at Griffith University and former member of the ANU LGBTQIA+ Alumni Network

  • Alistair Ott (They/Them), Wiradjuri queer nonbinary fulla, Indigenous Academic Associate and previous Pinnacle Scholarship Recipient 

  • Dr Elise Stephenson (She/Her), Deputy Director at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at ANU and a Fellow at the ANU National Security College

 

 

Register here to attend in person 

Register here to attend online

 

 

Disclaimers:

Registration is free, and required for this event to ensure catering for in person attendance or to ensure that you receive the link to join online. Late registrations on the day should contact alumni@anu.edu.au directly to ensure you are able to attend.
Please do not attend in person if you are feeling unwell. 

If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan, please contact the event organiser at alumni@anu.edu.au.

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Room: ANU Marie Reay Teaching Centre, Superfloor, level 6, Kambri Precinct, The Australian National University, Acton ACT 2601

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