Malta Gay Rights Movement (Malta)

In 2003 I met IGLYO (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Youth and Student Organisation) where I was elected to the Executive Board. Working for IGLYO meant organising various events for LGBTQ youth as well as maintaining and strengthening IGLYO and its network.

On a national level, I was part of the Executive Committee of the Malta Gay Rights Movement (MGRM), having been active in holding a number of significant meetings amongst which with the President of the Republic. I was part of the organising team who organised the first Malta LGBT Pride March in 2004.

Later on during that same year I moved to another island, to continue my studies. I got a Master’s in Women’s Studies from the University College Dublin, in which I focused on the historical aspects of queer desire in relation to a group of women in Irish history.

My interests, both within my academic and activist worlds (which I tend to inhabit simultaneously) are history of international queer activism, history of queer desire; as well as issues of social exclusion and the intersectionality of sexuality and desire with age and gender in particular.