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Come and join the @umsudisabilities department thi

Come and join the @umsudisabilities department this Wednesday for an online learning workshop with a UniMelb expert. Pick their brains and learn some new tips from others within your student community!⁠
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📝 Weds 23 September at 2pm⁠
📝 Join via the Facebook event!

It's Week 8 AKA assignment crunch time 💀 Take b

It's Week 8 AKA assignment crunch time 💀 Take breaks, get plenty of sleep and be kind to yourself. Word on the street is a bit of fun and 👉 human interaction👈 will help you see work with fresh eyes ❤️ ⁠
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Monday⁠
12pm - Queer X Disabilities Zoom Collective.⁠
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Tuesday⁠
12pm - Environment Collective.⁠
12pm - Woman of Colour Collective.⁠
12.30pm - Collage and Drawing Combined with Minna Gilligan.⁠
1pm - Bands, Bevs and BBQ Online - Noah Dillon. ⁠
2pm - Trans Collective.⁠
2pm - Page to Stage: Apply Now! ⁠
5pm - UHT Directing Lab. ⁠
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Wednesday⁠
12pm - Women's Collective.⁠
1pm - Queer Game Times.
2pm - Online Learning 101 with a Chancellor Scholar.
2pm - Queer Political Action Collective.⁠
5.30pm - Free Online Yoga.⁠
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Thursday⁠
12pm - Queer People of Colour Zoom.⁠
1pm - Queer People of Faith Zoom.⁠
1pm - Education Action Collective. ⁠
2pm - Disability and Mental Wellness Zoom Collective.⁠
3.15pm - Feminist Action Collective. ⁠
5.30pm - Trivia with Activities, Queer and Women's. ⁠
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Friday⁠
3pm - Creative Arts Collective.⁠
3pm - Ace and Aro Collective.⁠
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🔗 All Events Calendar link in bio.

Come one, come all to the UMSU Enviro Trivia Night

Come one, come all to the UMSU Enviro Trivia Night! Test your knowledge, get your competition on and win prizes 🏆 Trivia is bomb, so come meet new people, have some fun and blow off some steam. Make sure you RSVP!⁠
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💣 Fri 25 September, 6:30pm⁠
💣 Head to the Facebook Event to RSVP!

Content warning: Homophobia, transphobia, religion

Content warning: Homophobia, transphobia, religion, conversion practices.

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At UMSU’s most recent students’ council a motion was passed condemning the LGBTQIA+ Conversion Movement. The motion and the text of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts Survivor statement is below:
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Conversion practices, sometimes referred to as “reparative therapy,” is any of several dangerous and discredited practices aimed at changing an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Conversion therapists use a variety of shaming, emotionally traumatic or physically painful stimuli to make their victims associate those stimuli with their LGBTQ identities.

Despite recent attempts to ban conversion practices (notably in Queensland and Victoria), conversion practices are not receding, rather they are entering the mainstream in particular churches. At least 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand currently advertise conversion therapy. Instead of stamping out conversion practices, criminalisation has only pushed it underground.

To actually tackle conversion practices, survivors’ voices need to be platformed.

“The ex-gay/ex-trans movement is grounded in an ideology – it is not just a type of therapy that can be banned. While affirming faith leaders are needed to help drive change from within this movement, lawmakers and legal advocates who wish to curtail the movement must pursue strategies that seek to identify and counteract the influence of this ideology in the education and training, community, charity, non-profit and media spheres.”

Many queer students at the University of Melbourne are survivors of conversion practices, or are still subject to them. Not only should UMSU provide more support to these students, but UMSU also must publicly condemn a practice that causes years of lasting harm.

UMSU condemns any sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts to queer students, and commits to offering material solidarity and support to any survivor who should request it.

UMSU has affirmed the SOGICE survivor statement. The SOGICE survivor statement can be found via the President's News link in our bio.

We are appalled by the continuing jobs cuts across

We are appalled by the continuing jobs cuts across Victorian public universities. How can universities maintain the quality of education with these levels of cuts? In an already difficult time for staff and students, these cuts are demoralising and a huge blow to our teachers. Teaching conditions are student learning conditions – we know that these cuts will have a direct impact on students.⁠
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As members of the Academic Board, UMSU President Hannah Buchan and Education Officer Georgia Walton Briggs signed this letter to the University executive from senior academics and academic board members, calling on the University to stop all staff cuts and restructuring as part of their “pandemic reset program” while the financial impact of the Covid-19 crisis remains unclear. 450 jobs cuts is too many, any jobs cuts is too many. We will continue to fight alongside staff against these cuts.⁠
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🔗 Read more via the President's News link in our bio.

Comedy lovers, this one's for you! UMSU Activities

Comedy lovers, this one's for you! UMSU Activities is hosting an online comedy night. The evening will showcase emerging comedians to headliners, with prizes for the strongest acts! Hosted by comedian Anna Louey. ⁠
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Head to the Facebook event to:⁠
😂 Submit an EOI to perform: deadline 24th Sep.⁠
🍿 Watch the show: Thurs 1 Oct, 18:00pm. ⁠

Its Bands, Bevs and BBQs Week 8...we’re extra ex

Its Bands, Bevs and BBQs Week 8...we’re extra excited for this one! Indie pop-rock artist Noah Dillon will be taking over BBB - get ready for some raw, grungy indie rock gold 😎 ⁠
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🍺 1-2pm, Tue 22 September.�⁠
🍔 1pm via Live video on the UMSU Activities page!⁠
🍺 Head to the FB Event!

It’s time the University of Melbourne lose its c

It’s time the University of Melbourne lose its complacency and understand the urgency of supporting and protecting survivors within the University community. As student representatives, the UMSU Women's Department have written an open letter to Vice Chancellor Duncan Maskell highlighting the gaps between the University's rhetoric versus its actions, with a list of actions that they have demanded they commit to.⁠
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We need YOUR voices to show the University that student safety can no longer be pushed to the side. ⁠
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📢 Sign the petition 📢 — link in bio — for Student Safety over University Reputation to show the University how much we need their commitment to a survivor-centric, trauma-informed, and therapeutic model for responding to and preventing sexual assault and harassment within the University Community.⁠
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🔗 Read the full statement via the link in our bio.⁠

Talents, prizes, and (hopefully) jazz hands! The U

Talents, prizes, and (hopefully) jazz hands! The UMSU Activities ⚡Talent Show⚡ is on TOMORROW at 1pm. The submissions are in and BOY are they incredible! Come to show our talented Unimelb crew some ❤️ stick around to see who wins PRIZES🏆 ⁠
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👉 Fri 18 September, 1pm. ⁠
👉 To watch, head to the Facebook event!

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