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25 Nov 2020

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Women at the Edge

Live-stream: Economics and Beyond / Sex & gender

With Leanne Miller, Angela Jackson, Rowan O'Hagan and 1 other

When it comes to economic equality in Australia, the Covid-19 pandemic has turned what was already a gendered gap between women and men into a gaping chasm.

Women have lost more jobs and working hours since March 2020 than men. The economic sectors primarily occupied by women are among the most poorly paid, the most casualised and the most vulnerable…

Podcast episode

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The Wheeler Centre

Take Home Reading: Craig Silvey / Books, reading & writing

Take Home Reading is a new short-form audio series for readers and writers – shining a spotlight on Australian writers with recently released books. In each instalment, you’ll be introduced to a writer, learn a little about what they’ve been reading lately, and hear a short reading from their latest work.

In this episode we’re talking to Craig Silvey about his novel Honeybee, a tender coming-of-age story about a transgender teenager called Sam, a chance encounter she has with a man called Vic, and the ways in which both lives are changed by their unlikely friendship.

‘For readers of all levels of sophistication, [dialogue] is the element of a novel that no one passes over. Everybody reads dialogue. It's so revealing of a character and it's the best way for us to understand characters – when they speak purely to us. It's a way to make them feel distinct and unique, and a way to have a text feel dynamic because we're shifting away from that narrative voice and we're introducing different tones and different rhythms. It’s a vital piece of the puzzle… and something I’ve always delighted in’.

Honeybee is out now through Allen & Unwin.

14 Oct 2020

Past event

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Broadly Speaking

Mieko Kawakami and Fernanda Melchor / Fiction

With Mieko Kawakami, Fernanda Melchor, Roanna Gonsalves and 1 other

'The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.’

English-language publishers are increasingly embracing works in translation. What new worlds does this open up for readers? What does feminism gain from more translated women's voices in fiction?

For this conversation, we'll speak with two international authors with major works recently published in English. Mieko Kawakami is the author…

27 Oct 2020

Past event

Cancelled

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Broadly Speaking

Robin Wall Kimmerer and Tara June Winch / Gender

With Tara June Winch and Robin Wall Kimmerer

We had a few technical problems while trying to record this conversation, scheduled for Tuesday 27 October at 6.15pm – so we've created it in a different format and it is now available to listen to as a podcast.

‘When a language dies, so much more than words are lost,’ the botanist and writer Robin Wall Kimmerer has said. ‘Language…

16 Sep 2020

Past event

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Broadly Speaking

Power, Privilege and Pushing Back / Sexism & feminism

With Amy McQuire, Lauren Michele Jackson, Tanya Talaga and 1 other

In our first Broadly Speaking event, Aileen Moreton-Robinson will discuss the blinkers of white feminism and explore alternative ways for women to conceive of freedom and power. In this follow-up panel discussion, we’re bringing together exceptional minds from Australia and abroad to expand on the themes of sovereignty, race and activism.

Hosted by journalist and podcaster Amy McQuire, our panellists…

Event series

Broadly Speaking / Sex & gender

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.

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