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One of the joys of living in the host city of Sydney WorldPride is welcoming our international siblings, including Drag King Royalty, Hugo Grrrl from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Kings of Joy is proud to announce a Drag Worksop with Hugo Grrrl on Sat 4th March, 11-2 pm at our Palace at The Working Kind...
Some things are an inside job that no one else can do for you. They are a gift that you give yourself. No one else can give it to you.
No, I’m not talking about self-love (although, if you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? Thank you RuPaul)
No, I’m not...
I have a confession. I secretly want to see what Drag Kings wear as sleepwear.
So when granted the opportunity for Kings of Joy to host a live stream viewing of the Sydney WorldPride Live & Proud Opening Ceremony my mind went straight to the bedroom. I thought, 'Why stay home and watch the...
LGBTQIA+ Allies - get your questions answered
Bambuddha presents
16 Feb, 6 pm
The Working Kind Collective
Why does world pride matter?
Friends of mine live in one of the world’s largest refugee camps in the world, in Block 13, Kakuma, Kenya. They fled...
Photo credit: Jamie James
This article is written by a white person predominately for other non-BIPOC people to talk about racially problematic assumptions and approaches, particularly within the well-meaning educated community of leftist, alternative and so-called politically aware ideologies. I...
If you're anything like me, growing up in Australia, we were handed one of two genders. And it wasn't a choice. When we were born, it was declared, it's a boy! or it's a girl! (Imagine if there was a less prescriptive declaration made: It's a human!) Being assigned female or male meant that you...
Have you ever had the feeling at the end of another year that even though you may have had a great New Year's Eve things just feel the same? Nothing has really changed? Even if you had a lousy NYE, things just feel normal the next day. Every day, the same as before. (Be proud, put your hand up if...
My mission is to empower LGBTQIA+ people to feel good in the body using dance, yoga and tantra so that we can be 100% at home in our own skin. But left to my own devices, you'll find me pottering around the house finding new ways to organise and store things. I am my own Marie Kondo.
Thankfully,...
Hosted by Anthony Doick, LGBTI Conversations Podcast draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may, or may not, have heard about – someone who has seen and done amazing things within the LGBTI community for around the Globe.
In talking with Anthony, I share about growing up in a...
When Caitlin from the Rainbow Wave Festival and Jade from Deep in Drag, the afterparty contacted me with a bold request to travel down to Bega, NSW during my busiest two weeks of the year, there was a reason I said yes.
I grew up in a small country town, Everton in North East Victoria, pop.374...
Whenever we gather together, it's powerful. Things happen that were not going to happen anyway. From new connections to standing ovations, at Drag Kingdom we celebrated the end of the year together as the Kings of Joy community.
From this one night, here's the impact we made:
- 30 Kings of Joy...
Drag Kingdom on 8 December brings together the Kings of Joy community in an end-of-year performance night that is the biggest Drag King event of the year. Topped only by our first Drag Kingdom in August. With 30 Drag Kings performing, it's a celebration of the uplifting community we are part of...
