Tuesday Breakfast

7:15AM // Aysha Zaharin is a PhD researcher, award-winning trans rights advocate, and member of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Trans and Gender Diverse Expert Advisory Committee. Her work focuses on cultural relativism and decoloniality, bridging rigorous academic research with grassroots advocacy to highlight marginalized voices in the quest for transformative justice and equity. A survivor of conversion practices, she also serves as a Migration Policy Analyst with Scarlet Alliance, centering on intersectional advocacy that addresses the complex interplay of migration status, racial discrimination, and gender-based violence within sex work communities. Aysha joined us to talk about today's rally in Sydney to protest the Australian Border Force raids targeting migrant and Asian sex workers. Organised by Scarlet Alliance, the Asian Migrant Sex Worker Advisory Group, and SWOP NSW, the action responds to what organisers describe as an “ongoing campaign of intimidation and racialised policing” against A