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UniQ Aotearoa (UniQ) was Queer Students' Association of New Zealand, a collection of queer student groups at universities, polytechs and colleges of education in New Zealand.
UniQ was active at most New Zealand universities and several polytechnics. The term queer was considered to had been reclaimed and was used by UniQ to acknowledge both gender and sexual diversity. It was considered to be collective term for non-heterosexual and non-cisgender identities; inclusive but not exclusive to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, takatāpui, intersex and asexual people. Soeberg was employed as a Queer Project Worker by New Zealand Union of Students' Associations (NZUSA) to address the needs of queer students.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+UniQ Members These conferences usually included workshops, planning sessions and guest speakers (including political, religious and disabled speakers).
|Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association (VUWSA) and UniQ Victoria
|MUSA
|UniQ Auckland and Out@AUT
|OUSA
|-
|2009
|Victoria University of Wellington
|UniQ Victoria
|-
|2010
|University of Canterbury
|UCSA
|-
|2011
|University of Waikato
|Askew Waikato
|}
See also
- LGBT New Zealand
- Gay rights in New Zealand
References
External links
- Archival link to the UniQ Aotearoa national website