Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Show Me How You Do It down under : Realness at The West Ball II
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'On 13 March 2021, I attended The West Ball II held at Casula Powerhouse, an arts and performance venue in Liverpool, New South Wales. Liverpool was the city I grew up in and where I was appointed to for my first teaching job. I attended school there, hung out at the Westfield shopping mall and lined up for hours for donuts at Krispy Kreme when it first opened. I spent what feels like most of my undergraduate degree at The University of Sydney explaining where Liverpool was and why I couldn't just get a taxi home after a night out in the city. In a promotional piece for the ball, one of the hosts, Xander Silky, sets up the ball as 'reclaiming' safe space in Western Sydney for queer people, as ‘no one’s ever thrown queer parties in Western Sydney', and people from the area are forced ‘to travel into the inner West or the city to find safe spaces'. In identifying the ball as an opportunity to reclaim space, Xander is calling out to people from Western Sydney to take up space in their local community and to claim it as safe space for their queer community.'(Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Australasian Drama Studies no. 81 October 2022 25599393 2022 periodical issue 'It is time to pay attention to queer performance across our region. There are rich histories and thriving cultures of LGBTQI+ performance, including an explosion of queer performance from Indigenous artists. Queer performance is eclectic and tenacious, persisting as a field of innovation and continuing to sustain LGBTQI+ artists and their audiences despite contexts of ongoing homophobia, transphobia and criminalisation.' (Jonathan Bollen, Alyson Campbell, and Liza-Mare Syron : Editorial introduction) 2022 pg. 154-178
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154-178 Show Me How You Do It down under : Realness at The West Ball IIsmall AustLit logo Australasian Drama Studies
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  • Liverpool, Liverpool area, Sydney Southwest, Sydney, New South Wales,
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