Editor-in-chief/Publisher: Katrina Fox
Katrina Fox is a freelance writer and editor, originally from London and based in Sydney, Australia since 2001. Katrina has worked on staff as a reporter, features writer, sub-editor and editor on a range of consumer, trade and public sector publications in areas including the arts, trade unionism, social justice, human resources, sustainable building and social housing.
Her work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, the ABC's The Drum Unleashed, News Limited's The Punch, Yen, Cleo, Natural Health & Vegetarian Life, Mindfood, Slimming & Health and Time Out London, among many others.
She has also written extensively for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, sex/gender diverse, queer press internationally, including Diva, Curve, SX and was the launch editor of Cherrie magazine.
Katrina is the editor of several books on topics as diverse as sex and gender identity, hypnosis and self-help, and is a human rights and animal rights advocate. Read more about Katrina here.
Associate Editor: Natalie Becquet
After a successful career in the fashion industry, Natalie Becquet decided to return to her true passion of writing.
She has a special interest in social justice issues and is the founder of the Australian branch of CodePink.
Natalie's articles and poetry have been published in both online and print mediums and she is a regular contributor to a subsidiary of Salon.com.
Associate Editor: Max Attitude
Max Attitude is a queer tranny boi hero, social commentator and cultural analyst. He has lived in Tokyo, Madrid, London and Cape Town, and calls Melbourne home.
Max writes a monthly column at What’s Queer Here? and is co-creator of flagging opinicus rampant: feminist commentary on queer sex and culture.
His main research interests are 'equality,' abuse, aesthetics, drag, gender ambiguity, grief, heterosexism, liveability, performativity, polyamory, power, survival, transboi feminism, vampire/pop fiction and violence.
You can listen to his tranny boi hero party mix here. Or follow his hotlinks from Digg : Facebook : Stumble Upon.
Associate Editor: Lynda Renham-Cook
Lynda Renham-Cook has been writing for as long as she can remember and had her first work published in a magazine at age nine and has continued writing in various forms since. She has had several poems published as well as articles in various magazines and newspapers. Recently she has taken part in radio discussions on the BBC.
She has studied literature and creative writing courses and has a blog on her web page and is in the process of completing her third novel. Other works have been published online.
Lynda previously lived for some years in the Middle East and during this time discovered she could not have children of her own. She has since worked tirelessly to highlight the difficulty childless women face integrating themselves in a society where family life is highly valued. She lives with her second husband and cat in Oxfordshire, England.
Her recent novels include ‘The Cello’ (a fast moving chick-lit novel), ‘A Crown of Thorns’ and ‘Wedding Cake to Turin’. ‘A Crown of Thorns’ is available as an ebook and can be downloaded from a number of Internet sites. It is a highly emotionally charged contemporary novel featuring love, death and the crisis of sexuality and religious faith. A Crown of Thorns has been described by Oxford professor John Bayley as ‘very publishable’, and ‘a page turner’. Lynda’s latest novel is ‘Wedding Cake to Turin’.
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Associate Editor: Sarah Langston
Sarah Langston is a freelance writer, blogger, media and marketing femme from Sydney, Australia. With a passion for the emerging arts community as well as animal rights, queer, feminist, environmental and social justice issues, she's the kind of gal that likes to keep her brain ticking and stir the pot.
Sarah's articles have appeared in ANAT's Filter magazine and she's been heavily involved in the zine community and with Newcastle's This Is Not Art festival.
She's done a stint in both print and broadcast journalism, and trained in Communications at the University of Canberra under esteemed journalist and commentator Julie Posetti.
Associate Editor: Creatrix Tiara
Creatrix Tiara (formerly Tiara the Merch Girl) has transformed from fan webmistress, to alternative education activist, to her current form of emerging performance artist and artsworker. Through her many interests and activities she has maintained strong principles of encouraging diversity, entrepreneurship, rethinking assumptions, and challenging stereotypes.
As a performance artist she delves into personal experiences and observances to create work that breaks away notions of her as the "Exotic Other", presenting herself as a whole person with complex aspects - from her relationship to Islam growing up to her fondness for Savage Garden.
She openly speaks up on cultural representation and appropriation within burlesque and other fringe performance art, which has both caused controversy amongst conventional established names but has also garnered support from other minority performers and participants.
Tiara aims to channel her interests, passion, and energy into providing more opportunities and exposure to creative people from underrepresented backgrounds and levels, while moving away from conventions that do not suit her community.
You can find out more about Tiara here and here.
Associate Editor: Tiffany Lowana
Tiffany Lowana is on a tour of the senses. She has been pegged as extreme, a textbook Scorpion, eccentric and uncompromising when it comes to animal rights. When she graduated with a Bachelor of Professional Writing, she spent some time at two girly mags she’d rather forget.
Foot cramped in door, she found her home writing regularly for Lesbians on the Loose, intoxicated by the chance to pick the minds of her favourite writers Dorothy Porter, Emma Donoghue and Fiona McGregor.
Writing and reading her first but enduring loves, she has since fallen for photography, tattoos, Paris, opera and most things red. She has seen most of Europe and graduated with a second major in Koori and Jewish History and an unshakeable belief that Raymond Carver was a genius.
Based in Sydney, Australia, Tiffany’s commissioned writing assignments include pieces for Whales Alive, the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and Urchin Books. She was co-creator of the first Inner West Writers’ Festival SLAM! Perilous Text Uprising.
Horrified by intolerance, poverty and indifference, she is also appealing to the higher goddesses for a Vegan Revolution. But she does get splashed by the beauty of life when she looks at her nieces Maddie and Charli or strokes a gutsy little cat called Chicken.
Associate Editor: Lilia Letsch
Born in Tasmania, but now a mainlander living in Melbourne, Australia, Lilia Letsch is a feminist, environmentalist and obsessive gardener.
Writing and editing is a passion of hers, and she believes that it is important we learn from stories of the past in order to build a better future.
She is a co-founder of Black Kite Press, an independent, non-profit, alternative publishing house and an editor and designer for Wai/Black Kite Quarterly.
Associate Editor: Erin Stewart
Erin Stewart is a student and freelance writer. She lives in Canberra, the fine capital of Australia. Erin is interested in issues surrounding culture, feminism, the media, language and the internet. She is currently a blogger and columnist for lip magazine and a regular writer for Woroni.
Her work has been featured in The Age, a number of fiction anthologies, and she has spent quite a lot of time writing and making zines.
You can find her blog here.
Associate Editor: Lia Incognita
Lia Incognita is a sharp-shooting femme and poet-provocateur who is concerned with justice and liberation in general and in particular marginalised peoples.
Ey writes love and criticism to the left at State of Emergency and contributes to the pangender hanky code at flagging opinicus rampant.
Associate Editor: Melody Ayres-Griffiths
Melody Ayres-Griffiths is a content producer in Melbourne. Formerly from British Columbia, Canada, she is presently the treasurer of social-justice oriented Melbourne C31 founding member ISEATV, as well as a member of the board of C31 itself. She is also currently developing a transmedia franchise based on retro-gaming, 'RetTek' (as Moot Point Productions), producing a documentary on the history of community television in Melbourne (ISEATV), as well as working to enrich community television in Melbourne by supporting other projects through guidance and production assistance.
In the past, she has worked as an advocate for the GBLTI and disabled communities, and provided free technical access and support to several minority groups and not-for-profits. Melody has written two young-adult novels and several short stories and articles, some of which have appeared in Canadian publications, and composed and recorded two electronica albums, from which an entirely self-produced clip has been aired nationally on ABC's rage.
She frequently contributes to ABC's Pool.org.au communal-arts website, and her archive of music, videos, pictures and text can be found here.
Associate Editor: Susannah Waters
Encouraged by a teacher, Susannah Waters discovered her love for writing at eight years of age. After high school she embarked on studies in sociology and enjoyed being immersed in new ideas and ways of thinking.
Post-graduation, she decided to pursue her strong love for wildlife. A large chunk of her twenties was spent travelling overseas to undertake volunteer work with abused, exploited and orphaned animals on conservation projects and in rescue centres. She also gained qualifications in veterinary nursing and worked in this occupation for several years in her hometown of Sydney.
She recently graduated from a Master’s degree in journalism with the aim to combine her passion for wildlife, the environment and social justice with writing.
Associate Editor: Peter Hackney
A veteran of community and queer media, as well as mainstream media organisations, Peter Hackney is passionate about many things including queer culture, human rights, animal rights, health and alternative/holistic therapies, climate and weather, Australian politics, Australian film, ‘The Golden Years of Hollywood’, '80s gender benders, Boy George, Joan Collins and other topics, people and issues far too numerous to mention.
Based in Queensland in Australia, Peter is the former editor of Queensland Pride – Queensland's premier queer publication and his work has appeared in publications as diverse as The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), Green Left Weekly, SX, DNA magazine and various titles published by APN, one of the Asia/Pacific's largest media companies.
