Joni Boyd

Joni Boyd is a poet, radio broadcaster and community arts organiser based in Boorloo.

She co-host RTRFM’s Indymedia - a grassroots activist news program covering local, national and international movements.

Here she has covered LGBTQIA+ rights, the Disrupt Burrup Hub campaign, solidarity actions with Palestine, sex worker rights, deaths in custody, local government and a range of other issues.

She also runs Perth Slam, a monthly poetry slam and has performed her radical poetry in pubs, bands, festivals and theatre all around the country.

She is a proud advocate for the transgender community in all her work.

Joni is speaking at the conference session Media activism 101: Don’t hate the media, be the media! 11:30am AWST (Boorloo/Perth time), Sunday 30 June at the Boorloo Activist Centre in Boorloo/Perth.

  • For online attendees in Adelaide and Darwin the session will start at 1pm ACST, Sunday 30 June.

  • For online attendees in Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney the session will start at 1:30pm AEST, Sunday 30 June.

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