Bent TV
Erin is a recurring host and guest on BentTV, a community television program for the LGBTIQA+ community around Melbourne. You can watch all his appearances here with thanks to the BentTV YouTube archive. Videos are listed from newest to oldest - the most recent segment will be at the top!
LGBT Children's Books with Roslyn Quin
November 2019
Librarian Storyteller Roslyn Quin excitedly presents a handful from her significant list of favourite books available from your library. Today, she presents LGBT Children's Books.
Queer Parties with Delsi
October 2019
Delsi runs Queer Party nights, including Unicorns, in multiple Australian States. What are the value principals she won't compromise to ensure parties like Unicorns provide a popular, safe, queer partying space?
Mental Wellbeing for LGBTIQA+ People
October 2019
Queer Psychologist Josh Muller talks with Erin Kyan about Mental Health and how people can access resources.
Bent TV: Writing Trans
September 2019
Multi-talented Miranda Sparks and Erin Kyan discuss how they explore, express and why they Write Trans.
Your Local Library
September 2019
Listen as we did, to Roslyn Quin explaining the extent that a free to use, underrated, seriously supportive, Community Hub is as close as your nearby Local Library.
Queer Self Love
August 2019
Jacci, Ella, and Erin outline some of their Queer Self Love and Self Care strategies. Not only are they simple, but they hope these may provide examples of what could work for you when you need to celebrate your queerness, strengthen your self love, rebalance, refresh, recharge or simply to celebrate your existence. What are your Queer Self Love strategies?
Queerness in Performance
August 2019
Burlesque performer Ella Belles and Erin Kyan discuss how they explore, express and make space for Queerness and Identity in performance.
Life is Not a Porn Set
July 2019
Beginning with a popular song reference as having originated from a soft porn movie, Jacci discusses how as young people like themself, an Autistic Non-Binary Femme, relate to the world very literally and spend a lot of time trying to work the world out.
First Steps in Polyamory
May 2019
As communication is key, "Uncle" Erin Kyan, Lisa-Skye, Patrick Collins, and KC Martin-Stone tell their polyamory awakening stories, mistakes made, and lessons learned. Inner Child, Princess Moments, jealousy, envy, insecurity, will each be explained and placed into context as experiences faced in polyamory relationships, but it is again stressed that communication is the foundation upon which polyamory relationships rely to survive.
Unable to Put Up With Your Ableism
May 2019
Lisa-Skye, Beth McMullen, Jacci Pillar and Erin Kyan each describe their disability and how ableism affects them.
Lateral Hostility
May 2019
The seriously difficult topic of Lateral Hostility is introduced by Sally Goldner AM, with our panel of life and performer experienced Lisa-Skye, Patrick Collins and Erin Kyan analysing their lives of privilege, safe spaces, and the affect that their own experiences of Lateral Hostility affects their ability to have rational conversations about a topic of which they are passionate.
Being Proper: Openness in Polyamory
June 2017
Lisa-Skye once again takes (over) control of the studio, guided by Erin and Jessica, jumping into the world that is; Openness in Polyamory.
Polyamory and the Festive Season
October 2017
How complicated can the festive season become when one has one or more - Polyamory - relationships. Hierarchical, or not, we hear how Erin and Lisa-Skye approach their festive season, complex relationships, tours across Melbourne, and all.
Radical Kindness and the Mental Load
November 2017
Erin introduces what Radical Kindness, Mental Load, and Emotional Labour are; how showing unlimited kindness to someone may not always be being kind to yourself, and suggests some simple check-in's you can do to ensure you are looking after yourself as you show kindness to others.
Meet Erin & Hunter
June 2016
Lisa-Skye's guests Erin Kyan and Hunter Bruin talk things Trans, Queer, Bisexual and Pansexual. But Erin and Hunter also talk about how they manage living with severe chronic illness and the impact on their social and sexual lives. There are brave people in our community, living brave lives on their own terms.
Being Proper
July 2016
A new show about etiquette and what-not, Lisa-Skye joined by Erin Kyan and Hunter Bruin, begin by tackling how to ask a person's pronoun preference. We learn where it is appropriate to ask the question, and how 'they' used in reference to one person is grammatically correct.
What Are Metamours?
December 2016
Lisa-Skye, joined by Erin Kyan and Matt Fennell, discuss the niceties of polyamorous relationships. What, for instance, do you call the people involved with your partner (your partner's partner) with whom you have no direct relationship with? There is not only a word but a whole protocol of behaviour that goes with it. Do you give them gifts, do you invite them to parties? Fascinating stuff.