Key Funding Area
LGBTQIA+ Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander People
In 2024 we commenced our commitment to funding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander work by doing a national call out for people of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander identity to join our board. We were delighted to welcome Jackie Reilly to the board in April 2024. We have commenced the process of developing our engagement strategy with these communities, which will be led by Jackie.
Partner Organisations
Our knowledge in this area is significant, but there are many groups that have real expertise and lived experience, and we want to work with them in partnership. Groups we have collaborated with include…
Projects funded towards LGBTQIA+ ATSISSI People
Gadigal Koori Radio: Queer, Blaq & Deadly Program
Tony Duke with Koori Radio
2024 | $10,000
To pilot a weekly Queer Blaq and Deadly radio show over a 3-month period. Run by a team of First Nations LGBTIQA+SB people.
Welcoming the Unwelcome: A Black Rainbow Homecoming
Marijke Bassani
2024 | $10,000
Marijke will work with Cape York Peninsula-based First Nations LGBTQIA+ Sistergirl, Brotherboy, 2Spirit & IndigiQueers on a human rights photography grassroots project. This will involve spending 2-3 years taking portraits and collecting contemporary personal narratives about community life and culture for First Nations LGBTQIA+ Sistergirl, Brotherboy, 2Spirit & IndigiQueer peoples in the Cape York Peninsula. These will be collated into a photography book, and all profits from the book will go back to the local communities.
Yarns Heal Suicide Prevention Project
Yarns Heal
2024 | $10,000
PFA funded $10,000 to the Yarns Heal project in Queensland, auspiced by Queensland Council, for their Yarns Heal Suicide Prevention Project presentation at World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference, New York, July 2024.
This arose from a recommendation from Bec Johnson, who had been on our board and advocated for funding to this important project.
Yarn It Up
ACON
2021 | $10,000
This grant was awarded to ACON in partnership Aurora Fund to run several yarning circles with sister girls and brother boys in NSW to build their resilience and improve their health and wellbeing. It also aims to increase ACON’s reach and relationships with communities who have been historically oppressed, excluded and minoritised.
