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Identity Quest – a trans existential drama: Ballarat Cabaret Festival

Ballarat Mining Exchange

16 Lydiard Street North,
Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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  • Sun 4 May

5pm–6pm

Identity Quest - a trans existential drama. A celebration the life and adventures of Julie Peters.

As a child, people kept telling Julie Peters she was a boy, and she could never be a girl. It took her decades of multi-directed epic quests to become herself and unbecome all the negative labels and the unbecoming-stressful drama her life had become.

Along the way, she tried showbiz, academia, politics, environmentalism, and promoting social justice and equity and became an accidental archivist and fashionista.

Meet the 'personae dramatis' of her life, family, teachers, religion, Macbeth's witches, movie stars, colleagues.

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