Queering Home

A storytelling and spoken word event featuring an exciting line-up with Jax Brown, Kanika Chopra, Darcy Green and Elijah Money!

Queering Home: a storytelling and spoken word event

Queering Home is an intimate evening of storytelling that explores the beautiful, complex, and revolutionary ways LGBTQIA+ people create home – not just as a place, but as a feeling, a community, and an act of love.

Queering Home invites you to witness powerful personal narratives about:

• Finding sanctuary in unexpected places
• Building families that choose each other every day
• Transforming spaces into havens of acceptance
• The courage it takes to create belonging
• Love letters to the homes we've built, lost, and dreamed of

Featuring:

Jax Brown is an esteemed disability and LGBTQIA+ rights activist, writer and educator. He is proudly disabled and proudly trans and has been writing sexy and earnest spoken word for over a decade to the delight and titillation of queer audiences.

Kanika Chopra is an avid reader, writer and creator of More than Melanin, a literary publication by and for people of colour and Bla(c)k folks from the LGBTQIA+ community. They have also worked across a few literary festivals, namely Blak and Bright, National Young Writers' Festival and the Emerging Writers' festival.

Kin Francis is a multidisciplinary artist and library management student currently on placement with Merri-bek Libraries. Their practice centres queer futurity, creating community programs where stories and radical ideas are celebrated.

Darcy Green is a Melbourne-based author. They love to write joyful queer stories across a variety of genres. Their debut novel, After the Siren, a romantic comedy about two AFL teammates, was published in September 2025 by Penguin Random House.

Elijah Money is a proud Wiradjuri queer brotherboy, raised and residing on Kulin Nations. As a multidisciplinary creative, his work spans visual art, writing, creative producing, workshop facilitator, public speaking and performance.

Limited spots will be available for attendees to register on the night to share their work.

Accessibility

A hearing loop can be provided by prior arrangement only.

Please contact us at libraryevents@merri-bek.vic.gov.au a week prior to the event if you have any other access requirements for you to fully participate.