By the community, for the community
About HPV+ME
HPV+ME was created by Wendybird with funding from Women’s Health and Equality Queensland.
About Wendybird
Wendybird is a not-for-profit, peer led Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) grass roots community organisation based in Brisbane. Wendybird works to intentionally grow safer and always supportive communities for people of diverse bodies, genders, relationships and sexualities and their friends, families and children. We do this work so folks have a community to participate in, and a place to experience connection, acceptance and belonging, resulting in improved mental health and wellbeing.
About Women's Health and Equality QLD
Women’s Health and Equality Queensland (WHEQ) is a not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to advance the health and wellbeing of all Queensland women. WHEQ has the goal to make high quality, appropriate healthcare and information accessible to all women via a range of modalities, and supports a diversity of women including those who have diverse bodies, sexualities and genders.
How
HPV+ME
was developed
HPV+ME was developed by the LGBTIQ+ community, in collaboration and consultation with LGBTIQ+ people, to create a relevant and engaging campaign for LGBTIQ+ people.
Wendybird received funding from Women's Health and Equality Queensland to develop a cervical screening campaign specifically for lesbian and bisexual women and transgender men, who are often invisible in or excluded from traditional cervical screen awareness campaigns, resulting in less participation in prevention screening and higher rates of cervical cancer.
Due to the recognition that HPV can and does impact all people regardless of their gender or sexuality in a multitude of ways, the scope grew and evolved to become a HPV awareness campaign for all LGBTIQ+ people.
Wendybird facilitated a consultation process with people from across the LGBTIQ+ communities to identify the priorities of the campaign, develop key messages, decide what information should be included, and how this campaign should be styled and designed to engage LGBTIQ+ people.
To ensure that correct and accurate health information was included content was developed in consultation with Cervical Cancer Australia and trusted LGBTIQ health professionals.
This is the first targeted LGBTIQ+ HPV health promotion campaign developed in Queensland.
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Acknowledgements
Wendybird would like to thank the following people and organisations who contributed to the development of HPV+ME
- Joe Tooma, Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation
- Liz Ham, Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation
- Emma Iwinska, Women’s Health and Equality Queensland
- Asha Keegan, Wendybird
- Jade Mirabito, Wendybird
- Sally Morris, Wendybird
- Shannah Lundon, Wendybird
- Patrick Kay, Wendybird
- Dr Fiona Bisshop, Holdsworth House Medical Centre
- Dylan Barrett, Many Genders One Voice, Queensland Council for LGBTI Health
- Tanya Quakawoot, Indigilez Women’s Leadership and Support Group
- Belinda Ott, Indigilez Women’s Leadership and Support Group
- Bec Johnson, Indigilez Women’s Leadership and Support Group
- Rocky Byrne, Indigilez Women’s Leadership and Support Group
- Lance Schema, Queensland Council for LGBTI Health
- Ash Broom, Queensland Council for LGBTI Health
- Phillip Sariago, 2Spirits, Queensland Council for LGBTI Health
- Rebecca Reynolds, Queensland Council for LGBTI Health
- Kirstine Hand, True Relationships and Reproductive Health
- Melissa Fox, Health Consumers Qld
- Evie Ryder, Open Doors Youth Service
- Nikki Whitmore, Open Doors Youth Service
- Bonnie Hart, Intersex Peer Support Australia
- Shaye Austin, RAPID/Queensland Positive People
- Amanda Probert
- Jaye Buswell
- Photography by Kym Morris Photography
- Videography by Rianna Valdes
- Illustration and Graphic Design by Shelley Morris of Rogue Create and Print
- Web Design and Hosting by Rogue Web Design
- Asha Keegan
- Shannah Lundon
- Sally Morris
- Yvonne O’Callaghan
- Dr Fiona Bisshop
- Asha Keegan
Community
Practitioners
Acknowledgement of Country
Wendybird acknowledges the Jagerra and Turrbal people, the traditional custodians of the land where this project was developed and delivered. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and to the first nations folk who contributed to this campaign.