As a practising jewish person, Nevo shares how being assigned female and zionist at birth has impacted their journey towards transness and anti-zionism. In this wide-ranging conversation, Nevo interweaves the migration route of monarch butterflies, trans divinity, weaponised trauma, and living on stolen land to contemplate the multi-generational pathway to liberation.

Nevo Zisin is Ashkenazi Jewish from Poland, Russia & France and has lived in and around Wurundjeri & Bunurong Lands their entire life. They are a creative educator on trans possibilities, and facilitate workshops in schools and workplaces. Nevo is award-winning author of Finding Nevo (2017), a memoir on gender transition and The Pronoun Lowdown (2021), a guidebook on all things related to pronouns. Their work explores queerness, collective healing and liberation.

Shaped by her experiences growing up in India, Anjali reflects on the disproportionate impacts of climate change on young people and communities of colour around the world. Refusing to be intimidated by the impenetrable walls of Parliament House, Anjali transforms her anxiety about the future into a determination to bring climate justice to the fore.

At 16, Anjali Sharma became the lead litigant of a class action legal case against the Environment Minister arguing that the Government owes all young people a duty of care to protect them from the impacts of climate change. In 2021, she was successful, but following an appeal from the Minister, this ruling was overturned. Anjali continues the campaign, calling to have this duty legislated through Federal Parliament.

Encapsulated in the Bukjeh, the sack of belongings people take when they must flee from their home, Aseel describes the emotions, smells, memories, and songs that return her to homeland Palestine and drive her fight for liberation through art and storytelling.

Aseel Tayah is a Palestinian artist, creative director and cultural advocate who leans into the power of storytelling to create pathways towards liberation and humanity for displaced peoples. Her practice is embedded in community and is often highly responsive to contemporary global issues. Her signature project, Bukjeh, began as a one-off weekend event in 2018 and has grown into a significant collective of culturally diverse artists from refugee communities presenting public events, school workshops, and programs across Australia.