During its era as a hospital, the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre stood as a physical monument to women’s specific healthneeds by creating opportunities for women in medical professions to care for female patients. Now, the QVWC seeks to connect women and non-binary people through creative and cultural activities.

In 2020, artist, activist and QVWC Feminist Emissary Katie Sfetkidis undertook a year-long archival project documenting the experiences of womxn and gender diverse people from across Victoria during the COVID-19 pandemic. Made up of a series of conversations between Sfetkidis and people from varied social and cultural backgrounds, the archive offers space for marginalised people to publicly voice their experiences, and unpack how the pandemic has highlighted or exacerbated pre-existing structural inequalities affecting womxn. In this conversation, local artist Katie Sfetkidis spoke with theatre maker Kate Sulan and health worker Hope Mathumbu about how COVID has impacted their life, their work and their relationships.

This conversation was recorded on Sunday 6 December, 2021 at MPavllion Docklands