About Take Up Space
Take Up Space encourages young people to share their experiences with others and recognise that you are not alone.
Working closely with members of the community, we have developed a series of resources that support young people in these areas. Together, we want to promote the voices of young people and encourage them to TAKE UP SPACE!
Support Services
Find sexual and mental health support services in your community
Ask me Anything
Ask our sexologists us your anonymous sex ed questions, and see what other young people have asked.
Community Voices
Read conversations with community members and professionals on topics like exploring pleasure, having hard conversations and sex and the law.
Web Series
The Take Up Space web-series features the voices of community ambassadors and healthcare professionals, and celebrates the unique identities, experiences, knowledge and stories of people in Melbourne.
Factsheets
Find resources on sex, sexual and mental wellbeing, self-image, consent, pleasure, and respectful relationships.
For Educators
Consent Compass: Navigating Sex, Pleasure and the Law.
This is a free online module for professionals' to increase your confidence and capacity to have conversations with the young people you work with, and support them to make informed decisions.
“Taking up space is reclaiming the narrative that was written for me. I am many things, and I will continue to be!”
Najma Sambul, Freelance Journalist, Writer, Community Advocate and Take Up Space Community Ambassador
“To take up space means to challenge spaces that are majority white, speak on why these spaces don’t have diversity. Be there, invite more colour to the table and create a shift on how these spaces operate.”
Achut Thuc, Community Engagement Worker and Creative Writer
Statement of solidarity
GenWest acknowledge with gratitude the past advocacy and resilience of movements for equity by the LGBTIQA+ community that continues to be fought for today. In solidarity, we express sorrow for past and ongoing prejudices, and are committed to shifting our approach, to be guided collectively by the unique and different ways in which the LGBTIQA+ community experience gender and identity discrimination and oppression.
