I know Valentine’s Day has passed and we’re now well into Sydney Mardi Gras season but I wrote this piece for Daily Life a few weeks ago so am sharing it here now. It’s a queer girl’s guide to Valentine’s Day and, spoiler alert, it’s a day I think is pretty silly… I did manage to include a list of incredible women’s and LGBTQI charities worth donating to as a V-Day gift so even if you don’t read the article, click on the links below:
- The very aptly named Send Hope Not Flowers
- Camp Out: an annual camp for LGBTIQ, and Sex &/or Gender Diverse teens and their allies
- ACON (check out their Women’s Project, Claude, for safe sex fun)
- Lou’s Place: A daytime refuge for women in Sydney
- Sustainable Health Enterprises: helping women jumpstart social businesses to manufacture and distribute affordable menstrual pads.
- Mudgin-Gal: an Indigenous Women’s service
- Domestic Violence Victoria or a service and advocacy organisation from your town or State
- Blue Diamond Society: working with sexual minorities in Nepal
- Twenty10 and the Gay & Lesbian Counseling Service
- Women with Disabilities Australia
- Sex Workers Outreach Project
- Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby