March 2023
Quote
“Sexuality is the last frontier of personal development.”
Useful Fact
Please find link to NSW Health’s Monkeypox (MPXV) landing page for your use and sharing content about: Staying safe, Cases and contacts, Vaccination, Information for health professionals, Global updates and resources
Interesting Website
Rainbow Cultures is an online directory of groups and services for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) LGBTQIA+ community in New South Wales and more broadly in Australia.
It includes multicultural and multilingual LGBTQIA+ organisations, groups and services that cater to or are welcoming of LGBTQIA+ people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Latest community group announcements and events are posted on their Facebook page.
Campaign
Consent Culture is a movement for social change.
Consent is transformative.
Consent is a human right.
Consent shifts our culture away from entitlement and privilege, towards empathy and kindness.
Consent is the foundation for building a better world.
Consent Culture was created by Kitty Stryker.
Read our three word review of her book ‘Ask’
Key Event
The Talking Frank podcast is being promoted via targeted social media advertising to young people 18-29 years across NSW. The first episode of Talking Frank was released on Monday 12th September 2022, with two episodes being released weekly for 10 weeks. Available on popular podcast platforms including Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Who are
Client Earth are the world’s most ambitious environmental organisation.
They use the power of law to bring about systemic change that protects the earth for its inhabitants.
They work in partnership across borders, systems and sectors, ingeniously using the law to protect life on earth.
They work to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, implementing and enforcing the law, advising decision-makers on policy, and training legal and judicial professionals.
Out & About
Love Matters Arabic is truly unique for its credible, comprehensive and youth-friendly Arabic-language content on sexual health and wellbeing.
The platform is opening up the topic of sexuality for young people in a region where talking openly about sex is deeply taboo.
They co-create digital media solutions, which are contextualised and youth-centred.
Their moderation guidelines and human rights-based approach allow for different viewpoints to be shared, creating a safe environment for young people in all their diversity to express themselves, make informed decisions on the basis of fact-checked information and engage in moderated conversations.
Resource
Smart Plays is Club Respect’s podcast shines a light on uncomfortable topics in Australian sport and aims to rebuild respect as the base platform for interaction between fans, parents, coaches, players and officials.
Join Club Respect Manager, Tarik Bayrakli, on a journey to bring sport into the modern world of respect and to rebuild the respect for each other that we need to have if sport is going to thrive.
Smart Plays has been made possible thanks to the support of donors. Special thanks to the Wood Foundation and Spicers Australia.
Diary Dates
An exciting line up of On The Couch guest speakers for 2023 including Learning Consent, Chris Cheers, Maggie Smith (not the actress) on Transgender health, Ruiqi Fan on cross cultural sexual health knowledge & more!
There are also free modules like Doin it Right, Nitty Gritty & Because You Care that you can sign up for and complete for free in your own time.