TINA DIXSON

Co-founder, Forcibly Displaced People Network

Tina is a feminist academic and a policy professional, who has worked in the areas of LGBTIQ, refugee and women’s rights both in Australia and overseas. Tina is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University researching lived experiences of LGBTIQ asylum-seeking and refugee women in Australia. Tina is a co-founder of the Queer Sisterhood Project and a co-convener of the first Australian conference on LGBTIQ+ asylum Queer Displacements: Sexuality, Migration and Exile. Most recently, she is a co-founder and a Chair of the Forcibly Displaced People Network, the first organisation in Australia to work on the issues of LGBTIQ+ forced displacement.