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Broadly Speaking

Join us for Broadly Speaking – a series of deep dives into feminism and gender. Featuring brilliant local and international feminist thinkers talking culture, media, matriarchy, law, health, sex, sovereignty and more.

Building on conversations begun at Broadside Festival in 2019, Broadly Speaking brings you the most urgent and exciting contemporary feminist conversations to feed your curiosity and expand your thinking.

Upcoming Events

Broadly Speaking

Katy Hessel: The Story of Art Without Men

Katy Hessel, Simone LeAmon

29 May
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Past Events

Broadly Speaking

Chanel Contos: Consent Laid Bare

Chanel Contos, Madison Griffiths

Past event

5 Mar

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Angela Saini: The Patriarchs

Angela Saini, Karen Pickering

Past event

15 Aug

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Polly Barton: Porn

Polly Barton, Jenny Valentish

Past event

23 Aug

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Broad Church: Feminism and Queerness in Modern Religion

Sunim BomHyon, Jessica Knight, Louise Omer, Jacinta Parsons, Aisya Zaharin

Past event

13 Jul

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Jeez Louise: Deadly Funny Women for Reconciliation Week

Karla Hart, Steph Tisdell, Maureen French

Past event

27 May ⸺ 3 Jun

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Wendy McCarthy: Don't Be Too Polite, Girls

Wendy McCarthy, Tierney Khan

Past event

8 Jun

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The Maternal Question

Natalie Kon-yu, Sian Prior, Gina Rushton, Eleanor Jackson

Past event

28 Apr

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Developing Influences: Photography and Power

Atong Atem, Shannon May Powell, James J. Robinson, Tai Snaith

Past event

18 May

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Jeez Louise: Deadly Funny Women

Karla Hart, Steph Tisdell, Maureen French

Past event

19 Apr

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Joelle Taylor: Othered Poems

Joelle Taylor, Izzy Roberts-Orr

Past event

9 Mar

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Roxane Gay: The Audacity

Roxane Gay, Jamila Rizvi

Past event

16 Mar

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Future Voices: Decolonising Australian Media

Bridget Brennan, Chelsea Watego, Sono Leone, Karla McGrady

Past event

7 Oct

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The Mother Load: Motherhood, Trauma and Resilience

Alice Pung, Amani Haydar, Susan Carland

Past event

2 Aug

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Parliamentary Privilege: Bias, Boys’ Clubs and Women in Politics

Celeste Liddle, Julia Banks, Yasmin Poole, Patricia Karvelas

Past event

3 Aug

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Rage and Dissent

Bri Lee, Laurie Penny, Santilla Chingaipe

Past event

22 Jul

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Meaning, Mysticism and Manifestation

Lillian Ahenkan, Erica McCalman, Amal Awad, Lay the Mystic, Shantel Wetherall

Past event

6 Jul

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Ahead of the Game: Sport, Storytelling and Symbolism

Rana Hussain, Courtney Hagen, Joanna Lester, Kate O'Halloran, Angela Pippos

Past event

13 Jul

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Quarantine Cravings

Julia Busuttil Nishimura, Ixta Belfrage, Hawa Hassan, Brodie Lancaster

Past event

2 Dec

Broadly Speaking

New Voices in Food

Sonia Nair, Lee Tran Lam, Hetty McKinnon, Osayi Endolyn

Past event

18 Nov

Broadly Speaking

Mieko Kawakami and Fernanda Melchor

Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, Roanna Gonsalves, Hitomi Yoshio

Past event

14 Oct

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Robin Wall Kimmerer and Tara June Winch

Tara June Winch, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Past event

27 Oct

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Ann Goldstein and Mary Norris

Ann Goldstein, Mary Norris, Caro Llewellyn

Past event

30 Sep

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Power, Privilege and Pushing Back

Amy McQuire, Lauren Michele Jackson, Tanya Talaga, Nyadol Nyuon

Past event

16 Sep

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Aileen Moreton-Robinson: 20th Anniversary of Talkin' Up to the White Woman

Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Fiona Nicoll

Past event

2 Sep
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