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Jax Jacki Brown

Jax Jacki Brown (they/them) is a disability and LGBTIQA+ rights activist, writer, and educator. Jax has written for Junkee, Daily Life, The Feminist Observer, Writers Victoria, ABC’s Ramp Up, Hot Chicks with Big Brains and Archer Magazine. Jax is published in the following anthologies: Queer Disability Anthology (2015), QueerStories: Reflections on Lives Well Lived from Some of Australia's Finest LGBTIQA+ Writers (2018), Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories (2019), Growing up Queer in Australia (2019) and the forthcoming We’ve Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents (2022). Jax is interested in how we can build resilience, pride and community for people with disabilities.

Articles by this author

Jax is wearing a dark shirt, light shorts, and shoes with rainbow laces. They're in a park and are smiling. Jax is a wheelchair user.

21st October 2021

Melbourne’s lockdown lifts: “I’m feeling hope, trepidation, fear and joy”

Jax is smiling toward the camera. They're wearing a shirt that has a watermelon print. Jax is a wheelchair user.

10th August 2021

Activist Jax Jacki Brown on how the 2021 Census “fails to capture diversity”

The disability pride flag is shown. It's a lightning bolt shape made up of blue, yellow, white, red and green zig-zags. The text "July is disability pride month" is written beside it.

26th July 2021

Activist Jax Jacki Brown reflects on Disability Pride