Associate Professor Barbara Baird

I am currently the Co-Convenor of the South Australian Abortion Action Coalition (saaac, see https://saabortionactioncoalition.com/). saaac's goal is to improve SA women's access to abortion services and to normalise abortion as health care. We are pursuing the decriminalisation of abortion in SA. The Statutes Amendment (Abortion Law Reform) Bill 2018 which was introduced into the SA upper house in December 2018 by Tammy Franks (Greens) follows saaac's recommendation for decriminalisation and the regulation of abortion as health care.

I have been a regular contributor to the forum program in FEAST, Adelaide's LGBT cutural festival, since its inception in 1997. More recently I have also participated in queer (and abortion-focused) activities sponsored by the Migration Museum and Centre for Democracy.

In 2015, with Dr Ros Prosser (University of Adelaide), under the umbrella of FEAST, I co-convened the Remembering Dunstan project to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexualtiy in South Australia and to remember the inspiring political leadership of former Premier Don Dunstan. The project had two activities during FEAST in 2015 - a public lecture by law professor Nan Seuffert about 'queer' people seeking asylum in Australia and a troupe of 125 'Marching Dunstans' in the Pride March.

In October 2012 I was appointed to the South Australian Department for Communities and Social Inclusion's Rainbow Council. The council existed for an eighteen month period (2013-2014) and supported the department in the devising of an LGBTTIQ inclusion strategy for the state government which was launched in early 2014.

I have twice, in 2007 and 2012, with Dr Damien Riggs, co-convened the annual conference of the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association.

Since 2010 I have, with fellow feminist academics from UniSA and the University of Adelaide, co-convened the SWomen's & Gender Studies Annual Public Lecture