Anne Philpott is a public health professional, pleasure propagandist and 'guerrilla girl' of HIV prevention. She founded ’The Pleasure Project’ in 2004, in frustration of endless AIDS meetings where no one talked about people’s motivations for having sex. The Pleasure Project forges connections between the worlds of public health, academia, and the media and is globally recognised as the agency that has championed putting pleasure into safer sex education. They have influenced many agencies to deliver more effective and relevant sex education and are now working with the World Association of Sexual Health to launch a declaration of pleasure. Anne is published widely in health journals and the media, and as a speaker at international conferences, promoting pleasure in sex education and as the ultimate indicator of female empowerment. The Pleasure Project was awarded the Phil Harvey ‘Prize for Passion in Reproductive Health’ in 2016.

Jax Jacki Brown is a disability and LGBTIQA+ rights activist and educator with over 10 years experience advocating for LGBTIQA+ people with disabilities. Jax is a dog person but lives with a very fluffy cat in a leafy suburb of Melbourne where they fly the rainbow flag flamboyantly and proudly.

Dr Zahra Stardust is a lawyer, socio-legal scholar and policy analyst working at the intersections of sexuality, criminal law, human rights and social justice. She has worked with community organisations, NGOs and UN bodies in Australia and internationally and written extensively about sex work stigma, criminalisation and labour organising.

Dr Kiran Pienaar is a lecturer in Sociology at Deakin University. Kiran's research explores connections between health, gender, sexuality and the body, with a particular interest in drug consumption and sexual cultures, and social studies of HIV. She has published on topics related to the biopolitics of HIV; drugs, addiction and the self; and drug experiences in LGBTQ cultures. She is the author of Politics in the Making of HIV/AIDS in South Africa (2016).