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Tonight, Aisya Zaharin. As a Malaysian Muslim transwoman and a social justice researcher exploring her transgender identity in a conservative society, positions Aisya within a long history of oppression and injustice alongside other global marginalised and vulnerable assigned-male-at-birth transgender groups. Aisya serves as a board member of the Australia GLBTQIA+ Multicultural Council (AGMC) while doing her PhD on navigating Asian values and media responsibility. Her research includes fields in political science and history, decolonisation to LGBTQI+ and Islam with a focus on improving social inequality, promoting cultural relativism and social responsibility. A recent collaborative publication with Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli on countering Islamic conservatism on being transgender, “Reclaiming Transgender Identity Through Intersectionality and Decoloniality”, allows Aisya to share her critical autoethnography, reflecting intersectionality's commitment to reflexivity, structural critique, and understanding the complexity of LGBTQIA+ and her religion. Paper: "Reclaiming Transgender Identity Through Intersectionality and Decoloniality: A Critical Autoethnography of an Academic-Activist Performance" Authors: Aisya Zaharin, The University of Queensland. Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Deakin University. To hear more from Sasja Sÿdek, you might like to listen to 3CR Community Radio's - Queering The Air visit: https://www.3cr.org.au/QueeringTheAir/ Queering the Air presents critically engaged commentary from a mix of trans, genderqueer, gender diverse, bisexual, pansexual, lesbian, gay, queer, and intersex perspectives. To find out more about Trans Sisters United visit: https://linktr.ee/TransSistersUnited/ Trans Sisters United (TSU) creates projects that endeavour to benefit the transgender, gender diverse, and cisgender female community through advocacy, awareness, and collaboration. To find out more about the Transfemme initiative visit: https://Transfemme.com.au/ visit: https://transfemme.com.au/referrals/ Stories, tips, and resources to support healthier relationships between trans women and men. To find out more about The Shed visit: https://www.theshedsupport.org.au/ - http://ftmshed.com.au/ A Melbourne based support group for trans masculine people, including people who are non-binary and those who are questioning or exploring their gender, who meet up to support each other and build resilience through sharing personal experiences of trans life. To find out more about Rainbow Door, a service of Switchboard Victoria. visit: https://www.rainbowdoor.org.au/ Rainbow Door is a free specialist LGBTIQA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Gender Diverse, Intersex, Queer, Asexual, BrotherBoys, SisterGirls) helpline providing information, support, and referral to all LGBTIQA+ Victorians, their friends and family. To find out more about Transgender Victoria - trans and gender diverse advocacy visit: https://tgv.org.au/ Visit: https://tgv.org.au/information/for-trans-people To find out more (and the latest) about The Victorian Pride Centre visit: https://www.PrideCentre.org.au/ visit: https://pridecentre.org.au/events/ visit: https://pridecentre.org.au/volunteer/ To find out more about Minus18 - Changing the Lives Of LGBTIQA+ Youth in Australia visit: https://www.Minus18.org.au/ To find out how to listen to JOY 94.9 - LGBTIQA+ Community Media visit: https://www.joy.org.au/