Tea Uglow - Loud & Proud

Curated by Tea Uglow, the seminal Loud & Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community that have changed our world, and the conversation. 

Tea chats with Fiona Wright on Zoom! The Zoom meeting details will be included as part of your ticket.

You can pre-order a copy of Loud & Proud and we'll ship anywhere in Australia for free. 

About the Book

Loud & Proud is an inspirational collection of speeches from the LGBTQ+ community that have changed our world, and the conversation. 

This seminal collection places the loud and proud voices of the vibrant LGBTQ+ community centre stage. From equal marriage to gender definitions, bullying to parenthood, the issues covered in these speeches touch on all aspects of LGBTQ+ and reflect the diverse and multi-faceted nature of this community. 

Curated by Google Creative Director, Tea Uglow, and featuring over 40 illustrated ground-breaking speeches that span history from 1867 to 2019, the words collected here are inspirational, imperative and empowering. Each speech is introduced by Tea, who explains the societal context behind powerful messages from remarkable members of the LGBTQ+ community including: Harvey Milk; Sir Ian McKellan; Sir Elton John; Wanda Sykes; Penny Wong MP; Justice Michael Kirby; George Takei; and moving contributions from Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, among many others.

We are stronger when we stand together, and this collection encourages us to do just that whilst celebrating the beauty of our differences and all our rainbow hues. 

About the Author

Tea Uglow is Creative Director for Google's Creative Lab in Sydney. She works with cultural and creative organisations around the world exploring the space between technology and the arts and what can happen when they intersect. An experienced public speaker, Tea's TedX talk on the contrast between the screen-based world we live in and the organic world we say we love, has been viewed over 1.5m times. 

In May 2016 she spoke at the Sydney Writers Festival on doubt as a creative catalyst; during the talk Tea acknowledged that she was transgender and transitioning, the talk was made into a book and is available as a podcast. In May 2018 Tea was celebrated as one of Australia's #OUT50LGBTQ Leaders by Deloitte.

Tea lobbied the Unicode Consortium for four years for a transgender the Consortium confirmed the transgender pride flag emoji. Earlier this year the Consortium confirmed the transgender pride flag will be one of 117 new emojis to launch in 2020. 

Tea lives in Sydney with her family.

About the Moderator

Fiona Wright is a writer, editor and critic. Her most recent book of essays, The World Was Whole, was published in October 2018. Fiona worked as an editor at Giramondo Publishing for five years. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Sydney University, and is the host of Six Degrees From the City, a podcast about writers and Western Sydney. Her books have been nominated for pretty much every award going, including the Stella Prize. She lives in Sydney.