BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:258869@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260920T224403Z DTSTART:20261130T180000Z DTEND:20261130T193000Z SUMMARY:Blood Politics: Nurses and Australia’s AIDS Crisis DESCRIPTION:Join Prime Minister’\\;s Literary Award-winning historia n Geraldine Fela\\, author of Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of A ustralia’\\;s AIDS Crisis\\, for a special World AIDS Day event expl oring the history of care work and community activism during Australia 217\\;s HIV/AIDS epidemic.\\nThe event will be hosted by historian and AB C broadcaster Associate Professor Leigh Boucher\\, whose current research explores community responses to HIV/AIDS in Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s.\\nLeigh and Geraldine will be joined by Living Positive co-founder David Menadue\\, and respected HIV nurse Judy Frecker\\, whose career ha s spanned the entire history of Australia’\\;s response to HIV/AIDS. \\nTogether\\, the panel will reflect on the experiences of nurses\\, car ers\\, activists and people living with HIV\\, examining how communities responded to the crisis and how those histories continue to shape convers ations about health\\, stigma and social justice today.\\nPresented in pa rtnership with the Australian Queer Archives\\, this event will also feat ure an exhibition of archival materials documenting Victorian’\\;s r esponse to the AIDS crisis.\\nFeatured Contributors:\\nGeraldine Fela (fe atured Author)\\nHistorian and author of Critical Care: Nurses on the Fro ntline of Australia’\\;s AIDS Crisis\\, winner of the 2025 Prime Min ister’\\;s Literary Award for Australian History.\\nAssociate Profes sor Leigh Boucher (MC)\\nHistorian\\, broadcaster and educator whose work explores gender and sexuality in Australian political and social life. L eigh is an Associate Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University and co-host of the weekly ABC history podcast The Dead Can’\\;t Sue. Earlier this year he co-produced Darlinghurst’s AIDS Crisis\\, an oral history project and podcast released through History Lab.\\nDavid Menadu e (Guest)\\nCo-founder of Living Positive Victoria and one of the first A ustralians diagnosed with HIV. David has spent four decades advocating fo r people living with HIV and documenting the history of Australia’\\ ;s community response to the epidemic.\\nJudy Frecker (Guest)\\nNurse wor king in HIV care since the earliest days of the epidemic\\, beginning at Melbourne’\\;s Fairfield Hospital when effective treatments were lim ited and stigma was widespread. Recognised as a NAPWHA Community Champion in 2023.\\nAustralian Queer Archives Exhibition\\, curated by Nick Hende rson\\nArt historian\\, curator\\, archivist\\, and committee member at t he Australian Queer Archives (AQuA)\\, Nick has worked across national an d state cultural institutions for two decades –\\; including the Nat ional Gallery of Australia\\, National Library of Australia\\, and the Na tional Archives of Australia.\\nThis event has been assisted by the Austr alian Government through Writing Australia\\, its principal Literature in vestment and advisory body.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/asia-aus/australia/m elbourne/events/blood-politics-nurses-and-australia-s-aids-crisis-2026-11 -30 LOCATION:Victorian Pride Centre URL:https://www.gayout.com/asia-aus/australia/melbourne/events/blood-politics-nurses-and-australia-s-aids-crisis-2026-11-30 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR