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Hello. Hello. You're listening to Transmission on 4ZZZ. Yes, Transmission. All about amplifying the voices of the trans community and beyond. And I'd like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land in which 4zzz broadcast every single week, the Turrbal and Yagera people. This land is not ours and it was stolen. And the best that we can do is as people in this community. And what Ford Triple Z strive to do every single day, every hour of the week is proclaim land back and pay the rent. And we do that by amplifying the voices of the Aboriginal and indigenous communities here on this stolen land. And as much as we can across the country. And I'd like to, yeah, pay respects to elders past, present and emerging and any First Nation people listening to this broadcast this morning. Whether your land is here or abroad, first nations people sovereignty is of paramount importance to 4zzz community. Transmission. Yes. And today we've got a special guest in. You may have heard their sounds across the 4Z Airways over the last, I don't know, year and a bit with tracks like Colony Fall and Bitchbox. Vijay Harvey in the house. Yes, we'll be having a chat with them shortly, but before then, I'm just going to go through some community news and events and things. And just like most things on Transmission, always as a content warning, some themes we do touch on some pretty heavy stuff. Tragically, the trans community is not the most liberated. So we do have some heavy themes and some. And some vibes. So just look after yourself out there. And you can always call Q Life if you need mental health support as well. But in some breaking news, Labour promises to invest $10 million in inclusive and culturally safe health care for LGBTQIA Australians. It's been announced that a reelected Labour government will improve access to inclusive and compassionate health care for community. Labour says the $10 million election promise will help frontline health professionals improve their skills and knowledge, breaking down barriers that can prevent LGBTQIA people from getting the care they need. A recent report by Equality Australia found health was the fifth highest priority issue for our community, which has consistently called for Adequate and ongoing fund for suicide prevention and mental health. Today's announcement has been welcomed by the LGBTQ health organisations and is the next step for the Albanese government's action plan for the health and well being of the LGBTQ community. So yeah, that's hopefully a promise we can see come to fruition. $10 million would be substantial help to our community. I cannot tell you that enough. Also in some other news, slightly less happy, I suppose is there is a petition called EN7163 which is Asylum for gender and sexual minorities from the United States. Now this is something that I was sort of expecting for a while in which that we may need to provide asylum here in Australia for any people fleeing from the US if they can. Currently it is extremely difficult as a trans person or gender diverse person to even enter the United States, but it's even more challenging to leave. So yes. So that's part of the reason this petition is enacted. So Australia must offer and provide asylum to persons fleeing the United States who belong to gender and sexual minorities. The policies of the United States federal government are increasingly hostile and dangerous towards these people, especially those who are intersex and gender minorities. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has stated the the anti trans movement is particularly genocidal as the current Federal Executive of the United States openly aligns itself with this movement. Australia must offer asylum to these people as soon as practical I can read today, America may not want these people. The best we can do is to offer to take them instead. People who are openly gender and sexual minorities tend to be younger and have higher levels, have higher levels education than the general populace. So welcoming their entry into Australia would not just be an act of humanitarian necessity. It would be an opportunity we can't afford to miss. So this petition will be up on the transmission rate like Instagram and Facebook page. You can head to Trans with a Z radio on Instagram. We'll put it up there for you and you can sign. Currently there is not that many signatures, about 800 or so. So if we can have more, that would be sensational. The petition is only up for 10 days, so please circulate this if you can and get as many people to sign. We obviously want our trans brothers, sisters and siblings from the US to be able to make it here to safety. So yeah, please sign that. Yeah. In other news, politics is grim. So you're listening to Transmission on 4zzz. My name is EZ, I use he him pronouns and I'm in studio with oh, you don't have to have the headphones on.

I don't have to have them.

Hey, no, they're just for aesthetic purposes. Yeah, yeah.

I'm Vijay Harvey. My pronouns are they and she. And I'm confused by headphones.

It's okay. You don't need headphones. It's just me who needs headphones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And feel free to get your face right up into the. Into the. Yeah. Into the mic. Yeah, yeah. I should have. I should have done this before.

Okay. We were talking about the viscosity of porpoise spit.

We were, yeah.

And my argument is that it's high so that it doesn't all dissipate into the ocean. Whereas EZ is saying that maybe it's not even there at all. It's just seawater.

It's just seawater. If there's any marine biologists or people who might know anything about porpoise or.

Porpai, please text in.

Yeah, please text in.042062673. Tell us what your thoughts are on porpoise spit. What do you think? It's like transmission on 4 triple Z. And. Yeah. Vijay Harvey. I'm gonna read a little, tiny little bio. Just says I'm a cheerful trans listener. Z sub artist and physiotherapist.

That's right. Cool.

So tell me a little bit about what you do. So most people are actually familiar on 4zzz with your music?

Yeah, I've got a couple songs which you'd know. Colony Fall and Bitchbox. But my primary arts practise is more movement and circus and I graduated last year with a physiotherapy degree.

Congratulations.

Yeah, thank you. So, yeah, I'm really keen to use that to help the bodies that I like working with and in sphere with, so. Performing bodies. Queer bodies. Yeah. People that like to move and.

Yeah.

So I thought I'd jump on today and just talk about physio sort of as relevant in trans health because I think it's pretty underrepresented, pretty under referred. Maybe a lot of people don't actually know why they might want or need physio. Yeah.

I might start with. I'll chat with a little bit about some of my experience through transition and. And we can go. We can. We can chat about physio through that. So I. I've had a radical hysterectomy. I've had. I had my ovaries taken out. Had everything. Cervix out everything. And through testosterone, there's a lot of body mass redistribution. Body fat moves Definitely, yeah. The shape of you completely changes. I used to be a very hip and boob person and now I'm a very broad shoulder and very sort of angular person.

Yeah, Dorito.

That's it. I became a Dorito chip. That was my transition journey. Yeah. Just much less cheesy. Or maybe I am just as cheesy. Who knows in personality maybe, but. Yeah, so. And because of all, like, the shape, shape changing, your body changes and you have, like, physical health changes and. And especially with physiotherapy and, like, muscles and muscle mass and.

Yeah.

And things like that. I went up two shoe sizes.

Wow, that's wild.

Yeah. Two shoe sizes. My. I have no booty and I used to have a booty.

So down like two pant sizes, maybe, at least. Yeah, yeah, at least it'll just fell to your feet.

Yeah, that's right. I now wear my.

You know what they say about big feet.

Yeah, they don't say that about me, unfortunately. My hands got a little bigger, but not too much. But other than that, I went from like an extra small T shirt to a large or sometimes medium, but mostly large. So it was a huge physical difference for me.

Totally.

Yeah. And muscle mass in the upper body was a big change. And so particularly with chest and things like that. And those are things that you specialise in, right? Which is like chest and pelvic floor and stuff like that.

Yeah, that's it. So especially with top surgery, pre and post physio can really help with getting mobility and also preventing discomfort and any changes or restrictions post surgery. And pelvic health, all of the body changes that you just spoke about, those hormones have a huge impact on muscles and particularly the pelvic floor. So changes with the tension in the muscles and the ligaments around the pelvic floor can have a really big impact on the way your whole body moves. And if you're not looking after that area, it can. Can get unhappy, can get painful atrophy too.

Right, Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that can be down. Down the other end. Like not having enough strength and tone there can cause issues.

Yes.

Yeah.

I feel like that's a very common. A common issue is that, you know, physical therapy is not something that is really considered a priority when it comes to trans healthcare.

Not at all.

But disability is a likely outcome for not treating it.

Yeah. And it's also wild to me that it is not a priority because, like, what you're doing to the body, changing that whole hormone, cast hormone cascade, that it changes everything about the way the Muscles, the ligaments, the bones and the skin work, and that's your entire musculoskeletal system.

Wow. Wow. And that's why, I guess, like, I don't know, I feel like I walk more confidently and I am more confident.

Yeah.

Through this transition. But it's also like, oh, I've got aches and pains in ways that I haven't totally.

Do you find that. Yeah, you move differently or you feel like your joints move more freely or less freely?

Oh, gosh, that's an interesting question. So I think my hips are a lot harder to move. Like, to wiggle.

Yeah. Yeah.

I like to dance Latin American here. So I like to move my hips and that's changed.

Yeah.

So I find it a bit harder. I find that things can be a bit more stiff, but also I. I have. My shoulders are so much wider now that I had to change the way that I slept because I kept cutting circulation off to my arms.

Yeah, yeah.

And so I have to have an extra pillow under my head now.

Yeah. Oh, that's. Yeah. That's kind of fun, though. Kind of. Kind of like. Yeah.

I have to be higher up.

I know. With my own experience with testosterone. I just took a microdose, but it totally changed the way all of my joints felt. Like, I'm a pretty. I'm down the hyper, hyper mobile end of the spectrum. And the T brought me back to probably like, just a neutral amount of mobility.

Wow. Interesting.

And it was crazy because I do aerials. I do contortion, and aerials got a lot easier because my joints just, like, didn't move as much, but contortion got so much harder.

Yeah. I was going to say, like, it has its pros and cons.

Yeah.

Especially in. And in circus and things like that. So how long have you been in circus and doing these kinds of physical movements?

Doing things? Yeah, I've been doing things with my body always. Like all the. All the photos of me as a baby, I'm, like, hanging off something. I did gymnastics and then I started doing circus probably five years ago. Started doing aerials. Yeah.

And you love it?

Oh, I love it. Obsessed. I always wanted to do circus, but I grew up out in the sticks and there wasn't a circus school, so.

Yeah, it was just you.

Just me. Literally one person circus hanging off, like, the, you know, the rails on, like, the side of a ute.

Oh, my goodness. Yes. Country circus for sure. Yeah.

So now I'm here and, yeah, mostly I hang out at Vulcana Circus, which is an awesome space if you're not familiar for gender minorities, beautiful safe space and yeah, started playing more with movement handstands the last couple of years. Got into burlesque. But yeah, it's just such a wonderful circus is a really expansive platform because it can be anything you want. So creatively. I love that.

Do you think that circus and move and like this kind of movement is a great therapy for transition?

100%, of course. Couldn't agree more. Yeah, movement is the most transcendent experience. You know, we have a psychological experience while we're living, but primarily we live in our bodies. We have a somatic experience and being able to fully inhabit and you know, embody your body is just be in it. It's cathartic. And being able to express your experience and tell story of what it's like to be inside your body using your body as an instrument that. Yeah, that's it for me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like it's your. As you're talking about this one of the most like so through transition I feel like I came into my body more than I'd had previously and I was a very physical person. I played professional football, professional soccer, so I always was kind of in my body anyway. But what I found was when I returned to theatre in the last end of last year, I was like doing all these movement exercises and we're running around and like just moving our bodies in ways that just felt unconscious or natural or whatever. I was like, wow, I haven't actually been in this body yet and realised what I can do with this kind of body because completely different and the same when I play. When I went back to playing soccer a little bit just the way that my body felt with the ball was completely different from when I was oestrogen based.

Yeah, it's unreal.

It's amazing what our bodies can do and being in it is all part of like our trans experience. Yeah. Do you have. Do you have a recommendation for where people can go for some good pelvic floor and like health for physical therapy?

Are you asking me to do self promotion?

You can if you want.

Sure I am actually I'm a practising physio around my engine. I'm a sole trader. But otherwise if you're wanting to access physio, everyone is actually eligible to five sessions of allied health on Medicare. I think that's a pretty under advertised very much is bit of information. So the only prerequisite for that is that you have a chronic condition. So any of the stuff we talked about so Shoulder pain, anything around top surgery, anything around pelvic pain. Also, if you're also a hypermobile person or if you have chronic pain, that's a condition that you deserve treatment for. So you just go to your gp, say, hey, I've got this kind of condition, I'd like a healthcare plan. And they should write you up for five.

Yep. And then you can refer them to the practitioner of your choice.

Yes, that's it.

Yeah. Great. Amazing. What we're going to do, we're going to listen to some music and then when we come back, we're going to chat about some of your music and some other incredible things that you get up to as well.

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You're listening to transmission on 4ZZZ. My name is EZ. I use HE, him, pronouns.

I'm Vijay Harvey. I use they and she pronouns.

And Vijay Harvey is a sensational guest that we have on this morning, chatting about music, physical therapy, circus, accessing health care. Yeah, just a bunch of things.

All the good stuff.

Music, creating movement. Yeah, yeah. And we're gonna continue that theme of chatting about those things in particular. I want to chat a little bit. There's an event coming up that you are a part of. Yeah. Would you like to tell us a little bit about it?

Yeah. So next Saturday night we're doing an event at Vacant Assembly. It's called Six of Sins, Chaos Magic. It's gonna be visual art, movement and also shibari. I won't tell you too much about it, but it's gonna be. It's. It's a special one. Yeah, we've got two bands, we've got Chiffon Magnifique and we've got Anna and the Morphix, both awesome local groups.

And.

Yeah, yeah, it looks really good. If you want to come along. The dress code is funeral.

It is.

It is a queer and Swerk. Safe environment. And. Yeah. So Vacant assembly, which is in West End, 7pm, 26 April.

And I will.

I'll chat about possibly doing a subscriber discount.

Oh, my. You heard it here first on Transmission Potential.

Yeah. Now we have to.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll get that happening.

Yeah, yeah. You can check out the, the link for this event on the six of six of Sins Instagram page.

That's it.

Yeah, yeah. Which is just six of sins.

Yeah. Or you can also find it on my page. DJ Harvey. Vijay, underscore Harvey, because I'm very shadow banned.

Yes, I can imagine. With your music. Yeah, that can happen. And four Triple Z, if you haven't seen four ZZZ on your social media much lately, also probably shadowbanned. Go check out the page, actively search it in your search bar and just go scroll through like a couple of.

Things, have a look, put it on your story.

Yeah, yeah, Reshare something.

Yeah.

And that will reset the algorithm, essentially. So you see what's happening that can happen. And it sucks. But what doesn't suck is Vijay Harvey's music.

Yeah.

So Bitchbox, Colony Fall have both been just well loved on the four Triple Z airwaves, touching on similar themes, but different. You know, we're talking about decolonization and we're also talking about women's bodies, femme.

Bodies, queer bodies, and yeah, the oppression of indigenous people, the oppression of femme and trans people. It's all the same oppression. It's all the same system. And that's really. I've got a new track and that's what it is about. The fact that the systems that we use to control animals bodies, women's bodies, queer bodies, indigenous bodies, the earth's body, it's all the same model. And we're not dealing with any of these issues individually, we're dealing with them collectively. And that's the only way that we are going to be able to shift these practises.

Yeah. When we focus on. It's interesting when we focus on just like, you know what I'm going to pick, I'm going to pick a fight to fight, you know, like environmental justice, for example.

Right.

And we go down that path and we start navigating that path and then we realise there's intersections that affect it, like indigenous rights, land back, queer rights, autonomy, bodily autonomy. And then we go, okay, now what fight do I fight? Because they're all actually interconnected. Well, that's, that's the fight you should be taking, is the intersectional fight.

That's exactly it. And acknowledging and pushing and talking about the fact that none of these things exist in isolation and that, you know, there's a lot of distraction tactics happening, especially in politics right now. The way that we treat individual issues that are not at all individual, that are deeply interconnected and yeah, just being as loud as you can about, talking about. Yeah, that these are the same, same fight. And we're not interested in, you know, justice for one group of people without justice for another.

Yeah, we are not free until all of us are free. Which is very much a sentiment that I feel when I listen to your music as well, is this collective fight. But also, like, what I love about your music is that you take us on a journey. Auditory, you know, like, not just in what you're saying and the message that you're saying, but also the tones and shifts. You know, there's EDM elements. There's kind of like this new track that we're gonna play for you this morning. Listening.

We had a real lot of fun with this one. Yeah, yeah. Also shout, Shout out. Harry Verity, my producer. Local mean Jin producer. Very safe, very friendly space in Camp Hill. So, yeah, that's where a lot of the cool audio elements come from with his maestro mastery.

Yeah. And there's like, even kind of like choir esque. Yeah.

Okay, so it features like an old gospel song which my mum used to sing to me. If you've seen oh Brother, We're Out There, it's in that soundtrack.

Wow. I have not. Yeah, but. Wow. Okay, well, that explains. Explains some of those elements. I was having a listen before the show because I couldn't help myself. I was like, listen? But yeah. Is there anything in particular you would like listeners to know before we push play on the track?

Oh, yeah. This track was written really in a. In a big moment of grief. I was driving through the Lockyer Valley back out to Toowoomba, which is near where I grew up. And I was. Yeah, I was just blown away by the extractive. Extractive nightmare that is agriculture. And the way. There was also a cattle truck pulled over on the side of the road and there was someone with an electric, like, prodder electrocuting some cows. There was, you know. Yeah, just really toxic chemical fertilisers. Fertilisers going out on the ground. And then there was also a road sign for the 420 Baiting Programme which they had happening. And then on the other side of the road, there was an anti abort, like, fundamentalist Christian billboard. And it just.

It just got you.

It just got me. And the, the state of. Yeah, the. The. I guess the back end of the system and the production spaces of, you know, the, the food that we consume and the primary industries that really make Australia run are still really operating on some pretty. Pretty destructive, pretty patriarchal, really capitalist ethos. Yeah, yeah and it makes me sad yeah and yeah this one is called Blood River Daughter.

Blood River Daughter. Yeah, by Vijay Harvey. You're hearing it first here on four triple Z's Transmission, language and content warning.

I am trying to find my way home. Extraction projects where the world should live. I am searching for the river May she love me clean blood drips into the water. Joy to your souls, cows. In dreams I am sent to abattoirs again and again. The captive bolt doesn't stun me. Stand up and beg, please kill me this time. The married darling is going to dry in our lifetime and when she does, who will you drink? So called Australia and its cows the other land who is thirsty? What makes dogs feral and settlers not. Our bodies are baited, writhing, left here to rot. Rape, torture, slaughter. There's only one model. Did you watch the Lorax when they were buying bottled air? Urban sky dreams of release. The pulse divine beats down on me and another fucking billboard tells me that life's too short for boring water. We are a frigid pandemonium Force fed foie gras. Don't you think that if we could consume our way to whole we would have already? The earth doesn't owe you profit. Women don't owe you sex.

Animals don't owe you their lives.

Women don't owe you sex doesn't owe you proper. Women don't owe you something. Animals don't owe you their own.

Oh sinners, let's go down let's go down Come on down oh sinners, let's go down down in the river to pray. So I went down in the river to pray Studying about that good old way. And who shall let the Roman crown of the Lord show me the way?

Entitlement is born of what? Some sort of perceived betrayal? Somebody's debt yet repaid. Isn't this enough for us? Our psyche's wounding Lilith Sovereign was not aggression. Choking on perceived rejection. Adam learning fear. It was not she who cast him out, but as he scrabbles, she is he screams. Violence, exclusion, control. Rape, torture, slaughter. The land and water. She is global indigenous cultures. She is memory passed through wombs. Violence, exclusion, control. She does not owe you her body. Agriculture, capitalism, patriarchy. Extraction where life should be. Rape, torture, slaughter. Extraction where birth should be. Blood in our water.

Sa.

River. Hold me. Stand in Our lady and the blood washes over me. Our grief is coming home.

Blood, river, water. Vijay Harvey, you're listening to transmission. My name is ez. He, him. Pronouns.

Vijay Harvey, they and she.

Thank you. So much for debuting that track with us this morning.

Oh yeah. Such a joy.

Yeah, yeah. It's sensational as always. I love the journey that you take with your music and I love the message and I look forward to a visual performance at some point alongside hopefully.

Yeah, I was just saying I've signed up to do an incubator with Vulcana, developing an aerial performance with that one. So doing probably some shows in July, but that track will come out on the 30th of April.

Yeah, great. Stay tuned and follow all that Vijay Harvey does on their Instagram Jharvey, the song that you just heard, when does that come out?

30Th of April.

30Th of April. Another couple of weeks and then you can hear that again on the four Triple Z Airways. No doubt. Thank you so much for coming in. Loved it so much.

Thank you you so much also.

Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much for listening to Transmission. And we'll see you all next week. Bye.

Thank you so much for listening to Transmission. See you next Tuesday 9 to 10am on 4ZZZ.