Community Catch-Up for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and PoC Trans and Gender Diverse Folks

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🤎 A community gathering for trans and gender diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and People of Colour 🖤🤎🏳️‍⚧️

🖤When: Saturday, 20 September 2025

🤎Time: 10am-12pm

❤️Where: City West Lotteries House, West Perth

🧡Why: Mainstream LGBTIQA+ spaces, including Transfolk WA, have sometimes been sources of support, while also being sites of exclusion, racism and harm to both trans and gender diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and People of Colour. Our communities need a range of dedicated, culturally informed, and lived-experience-led spaces to come together, connect, and support each other. 

Transfolk WA is a peer led organisation working towards ensuring that all trans and gender diverse people are valued members of communities. Transfolk WA’s purpose is to inform, empower, and advocate for trans and gender diverse people to survive and thrive in WA. 

💛What: Join us to share food, spend time together, and chat about what it would look and feel like for us to show up in the future we want to build for our communities. 

This gathering is a space to connect, share, and imagine the future we want to build together. It is an opportunity to connect to each other, and chat about what Transfolk has been up to in this space.  

This community gathering is for trans and gender diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and People of Colour of all ages. 

This event has been organised by Tanesha Bennell, Rhubarb Baptist, Sam Gibbings, and Dana Norrie. The event will be facilitated by Tanesha, Rhubarb, and Sam.

This is a free event, and is supported by Pride Foundation Australia. This event will be alcohol-free.

💚The plan for the day:

• We have allocated time to settle into the venue and do introductions at the beginning of the event

• We will use the following prompts to chat, draw, and imagine: In an ideal world, what would showing up as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and/or PoC, and trans look and feel like for you? What would contribute to you feeling safe? What would community look like? What would it look like to show up fully as your whole self in a community that was built for you?

• At the end of the event we will do a closing activity and provide an opportunity for people to keep in touch with each other and with Transfolk WA

• You are invited to bring some food that is meaningful to you or your culture. It could be something small bought from the store like a packet of biscuits, or something you've cooked. We also welcome you to not bring food because bringing yourself is more than enough

• We will provide some food and tea and coffee. If you have specific allergies or dietary requirements, please let us know when registering for the event

💙Public Transport:  

• City West train station is across the road from the venue 

• The Yellow and Green CAT buses stop a few mins away on Wellington St. 

💜Parking:  

• There is paid parking at the front of the building on Delhi Street 

• There is also paid parking nearby at the Watertown Outlet centre 

• There is free parking for up to 2 hours a little further away at 102 Railway St, West Perth (near Scitech). This parking requires you to use the Secure Parking app

🏳️‍⚧️Accessibility: 

• The building is wheelchair accessible via ramp on the north end (close to the City West Train Station) 

• Two ACROD bays in the building carpark 

• The narrowest entry width is 82cm 

• Accessible and all gender toilets 

• Separate quiet room for if folks need to take a break 

🏳️‍⚧️COVID Safety:  

• Air purifier used in the space 

• Masks and hand sanitiser are available 

• Outdoor area available for eating