Jo Waite

Jo Waite has been a Melbourne-based queer artist, illustrator and writer working in comics and community arts for more than 30 years; self-publishing comics, curating art exhibitions for Melbourne Fringe; lived in and ran an art gallery in Brunswick. From 2007 to 2012 she was part of The Comic Spot; a fortnightly radio show about Australian comics on 3CR; she has volunteered at Sticky Zine Shop, the Squatters Union, Friends of the Earth, Queer Archives Australia and HAAG. In 2016 to mid 2017 she was a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellow and also homeless.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.