THE WHEELER CENTRE PRESENTS

TWO DAYS OF AN UNAPOLOGETICALLY FEMINIST AGENDA

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Welcome Womin djeka mar-ran biik biik, Boon Wurrung Nairm derp bordupren uther weelam. Welcome to my Country, the land of the great bay of the Boon Wurrung people, our beautiful home. I am proud to say that my grandmother, Louisa Briggs, was one of the women whose activism helped About Broadside shape the course of Australian history, by leading a Broadside is the new feminist ideas festival from campaign to stop the government selling the the Wheeler Centre. Over the weekend of 9 and 10 Coranderrk mission in the 1870s, where she lived November at Melbourne Town Hall, Broadside will with her family. The Argus described Louisa as present two days of unabashedly feminist programming, ‘a most resolute lady’ and she was often spoken spotlighting a remarkable line-up of international about as being strong minded, hardworking, known and local speakers, and delivering a powerfully for her kindness, her love of children, her humour, feminist agenda. Smart, funny, passionate people fearlessness and courage.” sharing their expertise and their stories. According to our tradition, our land has always been We’re told that ‘if you’re not outraged, then you’re not Our deepest thanks to all of those who came before And before the public programme, on Friday 8 protected by our creator Bundjil, who travels as an paying attention.’ Today, it’s overwhelming how much us; to those doing this work every day; and to the eagle, and by Waang, who protects the waterways requires and deserves our attention. So what do we feminists to come after us, who will leave an November, young people from public high schools and youth organisations across Melbourne will gather and travels as a crow. Bundjil taught the Boon do with the outrage? unimaginable legacy of their own. We can’t wait to see Wurrung to always welcome guests, but he always you there and warmly welcome you: it’s time for a at the Wheeler Centre for Broadside Teen Day, We organise. We come together and we have hard, a tailored day of free talks and workshops designed required the Boon Wurrung to ask shout, for a cheer and for a broadside. The all visitors to make two promises: honest conversations about what’s keeping us apart. has it coming. to inspire community and action. It’s a space for There is no single way to be a woman in the world, young people, particularly those from marginalised to obey the laws of Bundjil; and not and no single way to be a feminist. Thank God for that, communities, to come together to talk, to learn, to harm the children or the land of because this movement means nothing if we assume listen and create, to develop their individual Bundjil. This commitment was our experiences are universal, or that the wrongs that creative practice and make some collective noise. made through the exchange of a affect some of us affect us all equally. Without For more information on Teen Day, please contact small bough, dipped in the water. recognising difference, without listening to and [email protected]. Parbin-Ata Carolyn Briggs AM learning from one another, we erase our most essential and under-utilised voices, we lose out, and things stay the same. And we have work to do. Tam Zimet, Buy a Pass and Save! So let’s rage together. We hope this weekend moves Festival Director you. We hope it makes you feel angry, uncomfortable, awake, celebratory, hopeful and that it might inspire Weekend Pass Sunday Pass a different type of conversation. We hope that those Save 25% on single tickets for all events Save 15% on single tickets on all events on Sunday.* on our stage — and those around you — leave you across two days. * *Conditions apply with more complex questions than tidily packaged Includes a limited edition Broadside tote bag. answers, and with energy and excitement about how *Conditions apply. we might keep going, about what’s possible next. We hope it puts you in a mood. Saturday Pass 3 Plus Pass The inaugural Broadside draws from the long Save 15% on single tickets on Saturday. * Can’t make it to everything? Save 10% on history of Melbourne’s feminist organising and *Conditions apply. select single tickets if you purchase tickets to culture, struggle and collaboration. three or more events* *Only available on select tickets.

#broadside2019 broadside.wheelercentre.com HELEN GARNER WHO GAVE YOU A WORLD OF ZADIE SMITH Saturday 9 November Saturday 9 November 11.00am — 12.30pm PERMISSION?: DIFFERENCE: 5.30pm — 6.30pm SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT DECOLONISING In the words of one critic, ‘to read Helen Garner is to ‘To my mind, a true ‘Creative’ should not simply discover what might be her defining characteristic: With Ariel Levy, Curtis Sittenfeld, With Aileen Moreton-Robinson, seek to satisfy a pre-existing demand but instead awakeness and aliveness to the thingness of things’. transform our notion of what it is we want.’ Garner, a national treasure, has now spent almost Nayuka Gorrie and Raquel Willis Fatima Bhutto, Intan Paramaditha half a century showing us who we are and how it is. Saturday 9 November and Ruby Hamad Almost two decades ago, 24-year-old Zadie Smith’s She has sharpened this singular style — her humour, 1.30pm — 2.30pm debut novel, White Teeth, garnered rapturous reviews sense of the absurd and incisive observation — over Saturday 9 November and comparisons to the then stalwarts of the British 3.30pm — 4.30pm a lifetime of writing diaries. When we’re described as ‘speaking out’, what people literary establishment. To be a successful author was really mean is we’re ‘speaking out of turn’ — and that to be so in the shadows of Rushdie, Amis, McEwan. To coincide with the publication of Yellow Notebook: Nearly 20 years ago, Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s we do not have the authority to do so. Behaving well But here was an author who not only satisfied the Diaries Volume I 1978 – 1987, Garner shares with us pioneering work, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman, took means accepting things as they are, and sticking demands of the tradition into which she was writing, the pages that offer a glimpse into the honing and a sledgehammer to the idea of a unified sisterhood your neck out if you’re not a white guy requires the she transformed it. shaping of a craft. Beginning in the 1970s just after the serving the common good of all women. It was knowledge that you may be seen as difficult, publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip, this is a Australia’s first ever analysis of feminism from an In the intervening years, across novels and essays, and unlikeable. Many of us have to actively work at unique insight into how decades of a privately shaped Indigenous woman’s standpoint, so how far have we reviews and short stories, Smith has again and again claiming the right to occupy space, jobs, or make internal dialogue creates a voice, and makes a writer. come? It’s a problem faced by women everywhere: proved herself to be the standard against which new, noise that others simply take as their entitlement. against a backdrop of racism and colonial privilege, vital, electrifying voices are measured. With wit and Opposition and rebellion is necessary and unexamined whiteness and systemic oppression, verve, compassion and creativity, she has created invigorating, but bending the world until it breaks a dominant representation of feminism has prevailed. a body of work and attracted a legion of passionate can come at a great personal cost, which is divided How do we un-whitewash our feminism? readers with a new notion of what they want. unevenly amongst us. So how do we blaze a trail Her latest work is Grand Union. There is nobody like without losing our own way? Zadie Smith.

In conversation with Hosted by Hosted by In conversation with Sarah Krasnostein Michelle Law Jamila Rizvi Jia Tolentino

#broadside2019 broadside.wheelercentre.com THINGS MY MOTHER NECESSARY TRUTHS: TRESSIE FATIMA BHUTTO NEVER TOLD ME AND MONA ELTAHAWY MCMILLAN COTTOM With Aretha Brown, Ariel Levy, Bhenji Ra, Clare Wright, Courtney Barnett, Sunday 10 November Sunday 10 November 12.30pm — 1.30pm Curtis Sittenfeld, Fran Kelly, Maria Tumarkin, Mehreen Faruqi, Nayuka Gorrie, 10.30am — 11.30am Nicole Lee, Patricia Cornelius and Raquel Willis With Thick, Tressie McMillan Cottom delivered a Saturday 9 November There’s a million reasons why we’re told to keep treatise on beauty, media, money, and 7.30pm — 9.00pm quiet on difficult subjects: propriety and decorum, race, a searing analysis animated by the ‘radical convention and status, fear of retribution. When idea … [that] black women are rational and human’. Let’s hear it for mothers: the ones we choose, the ones In a powerful evening of readings and performances, women try to introduce nuance into certain public who chose us, those who birthed us, mothers-in-law, reflections and song, our all-star gala line-up will An award-winning sociologist, professor and author debates, it doesn’t usually go well for them. Western described as ‘transgressive, provocative, and brilliant’ step-mothers, foster mothers. There for us, before us, fill empty spaces in their own pasts with the media conglomerates are often more interested in showing the way. But, sometimes we learn as much conversations they wish they had, and the things they by her Hear to Slay co-host Roxane Gay, McMillan protecting power than interrogating it. If a woman Cottom works her way through politics, history, from the absences and silences as we do from the needed to hear. This airing of unspoken truths may offers an unvarnished analysis of power structures, considered advice and life lessons. All the guidance be funny, complicated, angry, vulnerable, messy, sociology and culture with critical dexterity and or a contrary view, it’s often framed as ugly, unapologetic force. and care, rants and sympathetic sit-downs in the world or tender. But they’ll all leave you vowing to speak up, inappropriate or ungrateful. Two of the world’s most can still leave us unprepared for what life throws at us. over-share, and probably call somebody you love. fearless, most honest, most forthright voices unpick the challenges and pitfalls of a life of truth. UP LATE With Aminatou Sow and Jia Tolentino Saturday 9 November 10.00pm — 11.00pm Feminism never sleeps, so swing by Club Skunk for Hosted by Broadside’s late-night talk show. Grab a drink and Jan Fran join our host Jan Fran as she chats to special guests Aminatou Sow and Jia Tolentino about their work, the internet, what they’re paying attention to and $10 plus $4.00 transaction fee In conversation with In conversation with what’s keeping them up at night. Club Skunk, Swanston Room, Lower Town Hall Sisonke Msimang Aminatou Sow

#broadside2019 broadside.wheelercentre.com TAKING UP SPACE: RAGE AGAINST THE MONICA BUILDING THE CITY THAT LEWINSKY WE DESERVE MACHINE: FEMINISM AND CAPITALISM Sunday 10 November With Caroline Martin, Gala Vanting, 6.30pm — 7.30pm Jax Jacki Brown and Nicole Kalms With Aminatou Sow, Sunday 10 November Fatima Bhutto, Jia Tolentino, 2.30pm — 3.30pm and Tressie McMillan Cottom It’s hard to imagine anyone better qualified to From her tireless leadership in anti-bullying Sunday 10 November speak about the ubiquity of bullying, humiliation activism to her acclaimed work with Vanity Fair, A woman’s place in the world – and right to move 4.30pm — 5.30pm through it freely – has always been controlled. and harassment in our culture than Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky’s resilience, compassion and intellect have This August, when announced as a producer on the inspired audiences around the world. In what will Workplaces, our city streets, pubs and parks are not Not all of us can afford to lean in, because some of us forthcoming series of American Crime Story, be an unforgettable Broadside closing event, just traditionally unwelcoming, but can be dangerous aren’t even in the room. How can feminism succeed her public statement was characteristically the celebrated activist and writer shares her insights, and destructive. Patriarchy has, until now, dominated if we’re at the mercy of capitalism? We’re rightly considered, forthright and impressive: ‘People have her advocacy and her story. our public spaces, and the way that different bodies galvanised by the fact that there are more CEOs at been co-opting and telling my part in this story for and identities are policed within them. So how can ASX200 companies in Australia named Andrew than decades. In fact, it wasn’t until the past few years that ‘Anyone who is suffering from shame and public public space be reconceived, and how can we create there are women – but when did feminism become I’ve been able to fully reclaim my narrative, almost 20 humiliation needs to know one thing: You can a city that is truly accessible? Can we break our urban about earning power? Doesn’t it have to be years later.’ survive it ... you can insist on a different ending.’ environments free from Anglocentric and gendered anti-capitalist? Market ideas about success and constructs of the past? Our place is in the planning, failure seem like a shaky foundation for liberation for creation and sustaining of this new kind of city. the 99% of women, so what does an uncommodified resistance look like? And can I buy it on AfterPay?

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Time Event Speakers Adult Conc. Time Event Speakers Adult Conc. 11.00am – Helen Garner In conversation with Sarah Krasnostein $35 $30 10.30am – Necessary Truths: In conversation with Sisonke Msimang $25 $20 12.30pm 11.30am Fatima Bhutto and Mona Eltahawy 1.30pm – Who Gave You Permission?: With Ariel Levy, Curtis Sittenfeld, $25 $20 2.30pm Speaking Up and Nayuka Gorrie and Raquel Willis, 12.30pm – Tressie McMillan Cottom In conversation with Aminatou Sow $25 $20 Speaking Out hosted by Michelle Law 1.30pm 3.30pm – A World of Difference: With Aileen Moreton-Robinson, $25 $20 2.30pm – Taking Up Space: Building With Caroline Martin, Gala Vanting, $25 $20 4.30pm Decolonising Feminism Fatima Bhutto, Intan Paramaditha 3.30pm The City That We Deserve Jax Jacki Brown, and Nicole Kalms, and Ruby Hamad, hosted by Jamila Rizvi hosted by Jan Fran 5.30pm – Zadie Smith In conversation with Jia Tolentino $35 $30 4.30pm – Rage Against the Machine: With Aminatou Sow, Fatima Bhutto, $25 $20 6.30pm 5.30pm Feminism and Capitalism Jia Tolentino and Tressie McMillan Cottom, hosted by Santilla Chingaipe 7.30pm – Things My Mother With Aretha Brown, Ariel Levy, Bhenji Ra, $35 $30 9.00pm Never Told Me Clare Wright, Courtney Barnett, Curtis 6.30pm – Monica Lewinsky In conversation with Sophie Black* $35 $30 Sittenfeld, Fran Kelly, Maria Tumarkin, 7.30pm *Not included in 3 Plus Pass Mehreen Faruqi, Nayuka Gorrie, Nicole Lee, Patricia Cornelius and Raquel Willis 10.00pm – Up Late With Aminatou Sow and Jia Tolentino, $10 $10 11.00pm hosted by Jan Fran* *Not included in Passes

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#broadside2019 broadside.wheelercentre.com SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Aileen Moreton-Robinson Ariel Levy Clare Wright Fatima Bhutto ‘I’m often seen as being incredibly aggressive, ‘I wanted what we all want: everything. We want ‘I am a feminist therefore I commit ‘Millions of women suffer but they also struggle, but what I want to say to people is that my a mate who feels like family and a lover who feminist acts. I’m not going to undermine they resist and fight. Pakistan is a harsh country, grandfather and grandmother raised me is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful the political importance of what I do.’ an unfair country, but it also produces women and said, “When you stop fighting, you are adventurers and middle-aged mothers. with extraordinary spirit.’ truly colonised.” ’ We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and La Trobe University historian Associate Professor Clare stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness Wright has worked as an author, academic, political Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew From the beginning of her career, Dr Aileen Moreton- and thrills. But we can’t have it all.’ speechwriter, historical consultant, and radio and TV up in Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of six books Robinson has shaped the way we think about broadcaster. Her latest book, You Daughters of of fiction and non-fiction. Her debut novel, The Shadow feminism and race in Australia. A Goenpul woman of While Ariel Levy’s writing effortlessly moves between Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and of the Crescent Moon, was longlisted for the Bailey’s the Quandamooka people (Moreton Bay), she is hulking subjects like sex, love and loss, her most Inspired the World, has been praised by Senator Women’s Prize for Fiction. Songs of Blood and Sword, Australia’s first Indigenous Distinguished Professor familiar theme is freedom. From her bestselling debut, and Anne Summers. Her earlier book, the memoir she wrote about the life and assassination and is Professor of Indigenous Research at the Female Chauvinist Pigs, which chronicled the rise of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, won the 2014 Stella of her father, Murtaza Bhutto, was published to great Queensland University of Technology. She is the raunch culture, to her National Magazine Award- Prize and the 2014 NIB Award for Literature. acclaim. Her most recent book is New Kings of The founding President of the Australian Critical Race and winning piece ‘Thanksgiving in Mongolia’ in the World, a lively look at the forces that are challenging Whiteness Studies Association (ACRAWSA). Her 2000 New Yorker (where she’s been a staff writer since America’s cultural dominance of the world. book, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman, was the first 2008), Levy’s work explores and subverts Courtney Barnett ‘I’m not your mother, I’m not your bitch.’ published work in Australia to engage feminism from an expectations around what a woman’s life should Indigenous woman’s standpoint. look like. These intentions were crystalised in her Fran Kelly Since her debut album, Sometimes I Sit And Think, ‘Let me remind any women of any generation 2017 memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply. And Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett has been still worried by the tag ... feminism is about Aminatou Sow celebrated as one of the most distinctive and equality, political equality, economic equality, ‘When you talk about a lack of “insert minority” Bhenji Ra compelling voices in rock, an artist who mixes cultural equality, personal equality, social into “insert any industry”, what you’re also saying ‘I think if we’re talking about popular feminism’s insightful observations with devastating self- equality. That’s it, it’s as simple as that.’ is that you’re not willing to support the people inclusion of trans and gender-diverse people, assessment. Her second solo record, Tell Me How You who are actually there.’ non-binary people, we’re not even scratching Really Feel, was released in 2018; a profoundly realised Fran Kelly is one of Australia’s leading political the surface.’ and politically astute rock record which had both the interviewers and commentators. She has earned a Aminatou Sow is a writer and cultural commentator. Sunday Times and Rolling Stone hailing her as the reputation as an intelligent, informed and balanced Along with Ann Friedman, she co-hosts the hit podcast Bhenji Ra is an interdisciplinary artist. Her practice ‘voice of a generation’. She is the first female artist ever journalist, who has been a key contributor to the Call Your Girlfriend, which tackles the intricacies of combines dance, choreography, video, installation and to win the ARIA for Best Rock Artist (she’s won five nation’s political and social debates for the past feminism, pop culture and politics. Together she and club events. She is the Mother of ‘Slé’, a young, Western ARIAs now), she was APRA’s Australian Songwriter of 25 years. In that time, she’s been the ABC’s Europe Friedman coined the term ‘Shine Theory’, a practice -based Vogue house, where she hosts events the Year in 2016. Barnett has also received the Correspondent based in London, the political editor of mutual investment committed to collaborating with and Balls at the intersection of community and Australian Music Prize and Triple J’s Australian Album for 7.30 and the political correspondent for the rather than competing against other people — performance. Ra’s work is often concerned with the of The Year. In 2015 she was nominated for a Grammy prestigious AM program. Kelly is the presenter of especially other women. She is a member of the dissection of cultural theory and identity, centralising Award. Barnett is the founder and owner of Milk! Records. ABC RN Breakfast – Australia’s leading national Sundance Institute Director’s Advisory Group and her own personal histories as a tool to reframe morning current affairs radio show. She is currently previously led Social Impact Marketing at Google. performance. Collaboration and consultation are key hosting the political panel programme, Insiders, on Sow is also the founder of Tech LadyMafia, a group to her work, and the voices of her own community Curtis Sittenfeld ABC TV on Sunday mornings. ‘Sometimes, there can be a slightly that increases opportunities for women in tech. She remain central to her critical practice. condescending assumption that anything was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Tech. unlikable about a female character is a mistake, Gala Vanting Caroline Martin as if they’re a contestant in a beauty pageant ‘Whilst I’m aware that #notallfeminists are Aretha Brown ‘The absolute strength and pride of who I am and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.’ anti-sex work, there’s a pretty gaping chasm ‘Every Indigenous person is an activist. today comes from these strong and resilient between “not being against” and being an ally. ’ The second that you are born, you become arweet murni-gurrk (old wise women).’ Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of five novels a political token and you are the subject of — the cult-classic Prep, The Man of My Dreams, Gala Vanting is a writer, sex worker advocate discussion rather than being in control of it.’ Caroline Martin is a direct descendant of the Briggs American Wife, Sisterland and Eligible — and one story living and working as a migrant settler on Gadigal family and Custodian of Boon Wurrung Country. collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It. Her books have been land. Her work weaves through the brothel, the In 2017, Aretha Brown delivered an impassioned She has worked in management and senior policy selected by , Time, Entertainment boardroom, screen, stage, and page, public health speech at the Invasion Day Rally in Melbourne, across arts, culture and tourism. A former manager Weekly and People for their ‘Ten Best Books of the Year’ and sex education. She aims to create compassionate fighting to make Indigenous history education of Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Melbourne lists, optioned for television and film, and translated and justice-driven dialogue about gender and mainstream. Her delivery and ideas led her to be Museum, Martin is the creative director of into 30 languages. Her short stories have appeared power, sexuality, technology, media and culture, elected as Prime Minister of the National Indigenous YIRRAMBOI First Nations Festival and is the founder in , , and Esquire, and is a passionate advocate for the human rights Youth Parliament, the youngest ever person — and the of Yalukit Marnang, a cultural strengthening and and her non-fiction has appeared in the New York of sex workers. first woman — to hold this position. An accomplished development consultancy business. She is currently Times, Time, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, Slate, and on artist, Brown is currently studying painting at the working on Bagurrk, a production that gives voice This American Life. Victorian College of the Arts. to the strength and resilience of Boon Wurrung Matriarchal Ancestor, Louisa Briggs.

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Helen Garner Jan Fran Maria Tumarkin by her wit and her power. She is also the author of ‘It is astonishing how much shit a woman will ‘We are half the population and until we are ‘I am counting on you not to grow up into one of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East cop in the interests of civic and domestic order.’ equally represented in public life (and men in those sensible, strategic people who always Needs a and is a contributor to the the home – but that’s a whole other story) we calculate odds and risks before acting. Trust me, New York Times opinion pages. Her commentaries Helen Garner is a legend. Our poet-laureate of won’t really have equality. It’ll continue to be a there are enough of them in the world already.’ have appeared in many other publications and she acute observation, the award-winning novelist, man’s world that we inhabit.’ is a regular guest analyst on various television and short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist has According to Helen Garner, ‘Nobody can write like radio shows. made a peerless contribution to Australian letters, Once a girl in line for the bathroom at a music festival Maria Tumarkin’. A writer and cultural historian, Australian culture and our sense of ourselves. described Jan Fran as, ‘that girl who talks about politics Tumarkin is the author of four books of ideas: In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize on the internet’. This is true! She is a Walkley Award- Traumascapes, Courage, Otherland and the boundary- Monica Lewinsky ‘Sometimes they’ll say, “I went through this, for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious nominated journalist, TV presenter, podcaster, and breaking, award-winning Axiomatic. She teaches but it’s nothing like what you went through.” Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction and the creator of the The Frant — an online opinion segment creative writing at the University of Melbourne. But I tell them that, if I drown in 60ft of water Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she that has been viewed more than 20 million times. and you drown in 30ft, we both still drowned.’ was honoured with the Australia Council Award for She is an ambassador for Plan International Australia, Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Garner’s books where she advocates for women and girls and her Mehreen Faruqi ‘I see an unashamedly feminist country where Monica Lewinsky is a social activist, global public include Monkey Grip, The First Stone, This House of strong reporting on women’s issues earned her a 2018 the patriarchy is dismantled, where access to speaker, consultant and contributing editor to Grief and Everywhere I Look. Walkley nomination for Women’s Leadership in Media. abortion is unambiguously legal, where the Vanity Fair. She advocates for a safer social media safety of women is of the utmost importance environment and addresses such topics as digital Intan Paramaditha Jax Jacki Brown and violence against women is confronted as resilience, privacy, cultivating compassion, overcoming ‘Identifying myself as a feminist writer is still ‘We must adopt an intersectional approach the crisis that it is.’ shame and equality for women. She was recently important and still a political stance, but I need to understanding the experiences of the named as a producer on the upcoming season of to be constantly aware of the implications, LGBTIQA+ community with disabilities. Mehreen Faruqi is the Greens’ Senator for American Crime Story. power relations, and more importantly, the Intersectionality provides us with a political and Australia’s first female Muslim responsibility that comes with it.’ framework to understand how multiple forms Senator. Faruqi has been involved in feminist and of discrimination are experienced and lived … anti-racist activism throughout her life. She introduced Nayuka Gorrie ‘I fucking love black women. I come from Intan Paramaditha is a fiction writer and an academic. our identities don’t exist in a vacuum, they the first ever bill to decriminalise abortion while an MP a strong line of black women.’ She holds a PhD from New York University and teaches overlap and inform each other.’ in New South Wales Parliament and won the closure of Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University. She pregnancy discrimination loopholes. Faruqi’s work for Nayuka Gorrie is a Kurnai/Gunai, Gunditjmara, is the author of a short story collection, Apple and Jax Jacki Brown is a passionate activist committed to reproductive rights was recognised with the feminist Wiradjuri, and Yorta Yorta writer. Gorrie’s work explores Knife, and her upcoming novel, Gentayangan (The addressing the disadvantages LGBTIQA+ people with Edna Ryan Grand Stirrer award in 2017 ‘for inciting black, queer and feminist politics. They wrote and Wandering), received a PEN Translates Award from disability face. They adopt a social model perspective others to challenge the status quo’. Her ‘Love Letters performed in season three of Black Comedy. In 2018 English PEN and PEN/Heim Translation Fund from PEN where disability is created by structural exclusion to Mehreen’ series has highlighted the online they were named as a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter America. and ableism. Through their extensive work as a writer, harassment, social media bullying and toxicity recipient, and are currently working on a book of essays. workshop and forum presenter, university lecturer, experienced by women of colour in public life. spoken-word performer and theatre producer, they Jamila Rizvi aim to challenge disability stereotypes and spotlight ‘Being a feminist is about more than a cute Nicole Kalms serious issues for change. Michelle Law ‘Most cities are gender-blind and disregard slogan on a t-shirt, it’s about more than your ‘In terms of being an Asian-Australian writer, women’s experiences. Engaging with the own personal identity. It’s about being part of it can be difficult because often people expect stories of women and girls is crucial for and contributing to an ongoing movement.’ that’s the only story you have to tell.’ Jia Tolentino making cities safer. ’ ‘The freedom I want is located in a world where Jamila Rizvi is editor-at-large of Future Women and a we wouldn’t need to love women, or even monitor Michelle Law is an actor and award-winning writer Nicole Kalms is an Associate Professor in the weekly columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and our feelings about women as meaningful — working across print, film, television, and theatre. Department of Design and founding director of the the Age. She has published two best-selling books, in which we wouldn’t need to parse the contours She is a co-creator of the SBS series Homecoming XYX Lab at Monash University. Examining the nexus Not Just Lucky and The Motherhood. Rizvi is also a of female worth and liberation by paying Queens, and the writer of the stage production of gender, urban spaces and advocacy, the XYX Lab regular commentator on The Project, Today, The Drum, meticulous personal attention to any of this at all.’ Single Asian Female. She is currently working on a brings together planners, policy-makers, local Q&A, and an occasional host on ABC Radio feature film and several new stage works. government and stakeholders to make tangible the Melbourne. She previously worked in politics for the Jia Tolentino explores the intersections of feminism, experiences of underrepresented communities. Rudd and Gillard governments, advising on issues the internet and pop culture in startlingly original ways. In her role, Kalms is leading two significant research including media, women, childcare, and employment. Her first book, Trick Mirror, a collection of essays, Mona Eltahawy ‘The most subversive thing a woman can do is projects: ‘Urban Exposure: Interactively Mapping the Jamila is an Ambassador for CARE Australia and board is a New York Times bestseller and has earned her talk about her life as if it really matters.’ Systems of Sexual Violence in Cities’; and member of Melbourne Writers’ Festival. comparisons to Joan Didion. She was recently ‘Understanding the Spaces of Sexual Harassment in described by Rebecca Solnit as ‘the best young No voice coming out of the Arab Spring was as urgent Public Transport’. Kalms is the author of Hypersexual essayist at work in the US’. Staff writer at the and essential as Mona Eltahawy’s. Her new book, City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism. New Yorker, she was previously a contributing editor The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, at The Hairpin and deputy editor at Jezebel. She also is an incendiary call to arms from a journalist defined served in Kyrgyzstan in the Peace Corps.

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Nicole Lee Ruby Hamad is an author and PhD candidate in media Sophie Black ‘We can’t get away from the fact that women studies and post-colonial studies at UNSW, where she ‘Women have many reasons to be wary, with disabilities are vulnerable. Society is slowly is researching media criticism and coverage of Arabs depressed or downright terrified of the internet. changing, but as much as people hate hearing and the Middle East. In 2018, Hamad’s Guardian article No guaranteed safe space exists for a woman it women are already on the back foot and — ‘How White Women Use Strategic Tears to Silence online. Especially a lippy one. And yet … as a tool then you add a disability … we’re so much Women of Colour’ — became a global flash point for for social change, the internet, to the extent that further behind.’ debate around feminism’s intersection with racial and we can still refer to it as a single entity, still offers colonial oppression. Her new book is White Tears/ immense possibilities.’ Nicole Lee is a family violence survivor and passionate Brown Scars. public advocate who has played a major role through Sophie Black is head of publishing at the Wheeler her appointment to Victim Survivors’ Advisory Council. Centre where she has worked on projects such as the Lee, who also uses a wheelchair, focuses on family Santilla Chingaipe national to writers scheme The Next Chapter, the multi- ‘Celebrities and corporations spew forth violence perpetrated against those who have a award-winning podcast, The Messenger, and the ABC “smash the patriarchy” and benefit financially disability, or who depend on carers or family members RN program, Talkfest. Previously she was editor-in- from that. You want to talk about boards? I want for support. After suffering a decade of abuse at the chief at Private Media, where she headed up titles to talk about how some women can’t get a job.’ hands of her former husband, Lee now uses her lived such as Crikey, Women’s Agenda, Daily Review and experience of family violence to speak out for those SmartCompany. In 2013, she delivered the Adelaide Santilla Chingaipe is an award-winning journalist and who don’t yet have a voice. Festival of Ideas as Director. She sits on the advisory filmmaker. Chingaipe created and hosted the Africa board for Melbourne University’s Centre for Advancing Talks series in partnership with the Wheeler Centre, Journalism and the human rights publication Right Now. Patricia Cornelius which explored perceptions about African-Australian ‘You pay a price to be able to talk about your identity, representation and politics. She also own country in the works in a really truthful and curated Australia’s first all-day, anti-racism festival, Tressie McMillan Cottom brutal way. A lot of people don’t want to hear that.’ Not Racist, But…. Her work explores contemporary ‘Being too much of one thing and not enough of migration, cultural identities and politics. She reports another had been a recurring theme in my life. Patricia Cornelius is a playwright of rare courage and regularly for the Saturday Paper and is a member of I was, like many young women, expected to be power. As a founding member of Melbourne Workers the federal government’s advisory group on Australia- small so that boys could expand and white girls Theatre, Cornelius has spent her career drawing Africa relations. could shine. When I would not or could not attention to marginalised lives and issues shrink, people made sure that I knew I had erred.’ surrounding class. Cornelius has written more than 35 plays, including Slut, The Call, Shit and Savages. Sarah Krasnostein Tressie McMillan Cottom is a cultural critic and assistant ‘The opposite of trauma is not the absence She also co-wrote the Australian classic, Who’s Afraid professor of sociology, teaching race/ethnicity, of trauma. The opposite of trauma is order, of the Working Class? Cornelius is the recipient of the contemporary theory, sociology of higher education and proportion. It is everything in its place.’ 2019 Windham Campbell Prize for Drama. digital sociology. Her first book, Lower Ed, examined the for-profit education industrial complex. She is most Sarah Krasnostein is a writer and a lawyer with a recently the author of Thick, a rigorous and expansive doctorate in criminal law. She is the bestselling, Raquel Willis collection of essays. Along with Roxane Gay, she is the ‘As we commit to each other to build this multi-award winning author of The Trauma Cleaner, co-host of Hear to Slay, providing listeners with incisive movement of resistance and liberation, no one which won the Victorian Prize for Literature in 2018. reads on politics and popular culture: a self-styled ‘black can be an afterthought.’ Her most recent work can be found in The Monthly feminist podcast of your dreams’. and the Saturday Paper. She has written for a variety Raquel Willis is a Black queer transgender activist, of publications in Australia, America and the UK, writer and speaker, dedicated to inspiring and as well as various academic journals. Zadie Smith elevating marginalised individuals, particularly ‘The very reason I write is so that I might not transgender women of colour. She is currently the sleepwalk through my entire life.’ executive editor of Out magazine. In 2018, she was Sisonke Msimang ‘Often it’s pre-determined that [conversations named a Jack Jones Literary Arts Sylvia Rivera Fellow. With five novels — White Teeth, The Autograph Man, about racism] are going to be defensive and She’s also a part of Echoing Ida, a national Black On Beauty, NW and Swing Time — and two collections they’re going to be ugly. And I think that’s largely women and non-binary writers’ collective. She is a of essays — Changing My Mind and Feel Free — Zadie because of the way they’ve been framed by men.’ former National Organiser for Transgender Law Center. Smith has attracted countless awards, critical acclaim

and devoted fans. Grand Union is her first collection of Sisonke Msimang is the author of Always Another short stories. Ruby Hamad Country: A memoir of exile and home and The ‘That the voices of Women of Colour are getting Resurrection of Winnie Mandela: A biography of louder and more influential is a testament less survival. She is a South African writer whose work is to the accommodations made by the dominant focussed on race, gender and democracy. She has white culture and more to their own grit in a written for a range of international publications including society that implicitly — and sometimes the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, explicitly — wants them to fail.’ Newsweek and Al Jazeera. Msimang is the curator of the literature and ideas program at Perth Festival. #broadside2019 broadside.wheelercentre.com EXPERIENCE THANK YOU BROADSIDE

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