Feminist Writers Festival

In this episode, Ecofeminism, Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe and novelist Alice Robinson chat with nature writer Inga Simpson about a feminism that centres itself around country. Reading Notes Rachel Carson: The Life and Legacy On Judith Wright: Judith Wright in a new light, by Kevin Brophy Louisa Atkinson:  Louisa Atkinson's Nature Notes Protecting the Djab Warrung, Lidia Thorpe Other recommended reading Some other reading suggestions from our podcasters. Feminist Writers Festival feministwritersfestival.com FB: @feministwritersfest Insta/Twitter: @FemWritersFest Speakers Alice Robinson: Tw @critature, Insta @ciaoalicerobinson, www.alicerobinson.com.au Inga Simpson: Tw/FB @inga.simpson, Insta @nestofpages,  www.ingasimpson.com.au Lidia Thorpe: Tw @lidia_thorpe  Shout Outs Kel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring. The Besen Family Foundation for vital funding support. We acknowledge that this recording took place across Australia on First Nations lands - lands whose sovereignty has never been ceded. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Feminism for All, disability and LGBTIQA+ rights activist Jax Jacki Brown, and creative producer Raelee Lancaster chat with writer Zoya Patel about breaking down the barriers to a more accessible feminism. Reading Notes The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf, Penguin  Other recommended reading Some other reading suggestions from our podcasters.   Feminist Writers Festival feministwritersfestival.com FB: @feministwritersfest Insta/Twitter: @FemWritersFest   Speakers Jax Jacki Brown: Tw/Insta @jaxjackibrown Zoya Patel: Tw @zoyajpatel, FB @zoyajpatel, Insta @zoyajpatel, www.zoya-patel.com Raelee Lancaster: Tw @raeleelancaster   Shout Outs Kel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring. The Besen Family Foundation for vital funding support.   We acknowledge that this recording took place across Australia on First Nations lands - lands whose sovereignty has never been ceded. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to FWFtalks, created for FWF2020 with the support of the Besen Family Foundation. In this episode, Where Is the Queer Writing?, writer/ director Corrie Chen, Archer's online editor Roz Bellamy and gender studies academic Gemma Killen discuss what's being written for and consumed by queer audiences. Reading Notes Watch Little Fires Everywhere  Feel Good Work in Progress The L Word  Special Disclosure The Politician  The Bold Type Broad City Vida Euphoria  Steven Universe She-Ra and the Princesses of Power First Day, Julie Kalceff Ellie and Abbie, Monica Zanetti Read Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng Archer Magazine Ask Me About the Future, Rebecca Jessen We Are Speaking in Code, Tanya Vavilova Throat, Ellen van Neervan Listen Queerstories, Maeve Marsden Other recommended reading Some other reading suggestions from our podcasters. Feminist Writers Festival feministwritersfestival.com FB: @feministwritersfest Insta/Twitter: @FemWritersFest Speakers Corrie Chen: Tw @corriechen, Insta @corriechen,  www.corriechen.com Roz Bellamy: Tw@bellarozz, FB @BellamyRoz, Insta: @bellarozz, https://www.rozbellamy.com/ Gemma Killen: Twitter/Insta: @gemkillen Shout Outs Kel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring. The Besen Family Foundation for vital funding support.   We acknowledge that this recording took place across Australia on First Nations lands - lands whose sovereignty has never been ceded. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to FWFtalks, created for FWF2020 with the support of the Besen Family Foundation. In this episode, Feisty But Friendly, First Nations community organiser and filmmaker Tarneen Onus-Williams and academic Akane Kanai talk with broadcaster Beverley Wang about argument with a resolution of care. Reading Notes Tarneen Onus-Willams and Invasion Day  Amelie Wen Zhao controversy Chandra Mohantay: feminist academic Some other reading suggestions from our podcasters. Feminist Writers Festival feministwritersfestival.com FB: @feministwritersfest Insta/Twitter: @FemWritersFest Speakers Akane Kanai: Tw: @Akane_Kanai Beverly Wang: Tw @beverleywang, Insta @beverley.wang, beverleywang.com Tarneen Onus-Williams: Tw @Tarneen Shout Outs Kel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring. The Besen Family Foundation for vital funding support. We acknowledge that this recording took place across Australia on First Nations lands - lands whose sovereignty has never been ceded. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Sydney, Rebecca Shaw talks about the books that shaped their feminism and writing.Bec’s Picks:The Cherry Tree Farm Story Collection, Enid BlytonThe Trixie Belden Series, Julie Cambell Tatham & Kathryn KennyMy Point...And I Do Have One, Ellen DegeneresTipping the Velvet, Sarah WatersHunger, Roxane GayFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestRebecca ShawTwitter: @BrocklesnitchShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion for event hosting and partnering.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Sydney, Ruby Hamad talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing.Ruby’s picks:Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Kate AtkinsonSister Outsider, Audre LordeFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestRuby HamadFacebook: @RubyHamadWriterInsta: @RubyHWriterShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion for event hosting and partnering.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Sydney, Foong Ling Kong talks about the books that shaped her feminism.Foong Ling’s Picks:Little Women, Louisa May AlcottJane Eyre, Charlotte BronteWide Sargasso Sea, Jean RhysSister Outsider, Audre LordeFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestFoong Ling KongTwitter: @foonglingkongInsta: @msflkongShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion for event hosting and partnering.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Sydney, Kerryn Goldsworthy talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing.Kerryn’s Picks:The Cry and the Covenant, Morton ThompsonCome In Spinner, Dymphna Cusack & Florence JamesThe Group, Mary McCarthyFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestKerryn GoldsworthyTwitter: @AdelaideBookFacebook: Kerryn Goldsworthy Author PageShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion for event hosting and partnering.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Sydney, Erin Gough talks about the books that shaped her feminism and writing.Erin's picks:Mrs Dalloway, Virginia WoolfFingersmith, Sarah WatersThe Monkey’s Mask, Dorothy PorterLooking For Alibrandi, Melina Marchetta Finding Nevo, Nevo Zisin& Ellen van Neerven ‘whose writing speaks to her female Indigenous experience, to deep-seated racism, to colonisation, and to queerness’.Feminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestErin GoughWeb: www.eringough.comTwitter: @ErinOnFridaysShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion for event hosting and partnering.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Melbourne, Alison Evans talks about the books that shaped their feminism and their writing.Alison’s picks:Looking for Alibrandi, Melina MarchettaNight Swimming, Steph BoweClancy of the Undertow, Christopher CurrieIn the Dark Spaces, Cally BlackLiving on Hope Street, Demet DivaroranFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestAlison EvansWeb: https://www.alisonwritesthings.comTwitter: @_budgieShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, LOOP Project Space and Bar for event hosting.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Melbourne, Ann-Marie Priest talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing.Ann-Marie’s picks:For Love Alone, Christina SteadJane Eyre, Charlotte BronteThe Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Jane AustenFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestAnn-Marie Priestuwap.uwa.edu.au/collections/ann-marie-priestShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, LOOP Project Space and Bar for event hosting.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Melbourne, Jamila Rizvi talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing.Jamila’s picks:The Railway Children, Edith NesbitJane Eyre, Charlotte BronteLittle Women, Louisa May AlcottThe Diary of a Young Girl, Anne FrankThe Joy Luck Club, Amy TanThe Hate Race, Maxine Beneba ClarkeFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestJamila RizviWeb: www.jamilarizvi.com.auFacebook: @jamilarizvionlineTwitter: @JamilaRizviShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, LOOP Project Space and Bar for event hosting.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Melbourne, Alison Croggon talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing.Alison’s picks:In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Alice WalkerMan Made Language, Dale SpenderFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestAlison CroggonWeb: https://www.alisoncroggon.comFacebook: @@AlisonCroggonbooksTwitter: @alisoncroggonShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, LOOP Project Space and Bar for event hosting.

In this minisode from FWF 2018 Melbourne, Evelyn Araluen talks about the books that shaped her feminism and her writing.Evelyn’s picks:Talkin’ up to the White Woman, Aileen Moreton Robinson, UQPThe Poetics of (Re)Mapping the Archives: Memory in the Blood, Natalie Harkin, JASALFeminist Writers FestivalWeb: https://feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta / Twitter: @FemWritersFestEvelyn AraluenFacebook: @evelynaraluen.corrTwitter: @evelynaraluenShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, LOOP Project Space and Bar for event hosting.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Eileen Ormsby and Jenny Sinclair discuss disruptive technologies and the future of feminism with Antonia Pont.As the digital revolution continues to unleash radical change on industries, economies, politics and institutions, what future will this disruption shape? Is the brave new world one of decentralisation, anti-elitism and individual freedom – or surveillance, monopoly and control? And what does it mean in particular for women?Feminist Writers Festival holds a biennial festival, year-round one-off events, monthly publishing and occasional podcasts.Web: www.feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta/ Twitter: @femwritersfestPanelistsYassmin Abdel-Magied: http://www.yassminam.com/rtnEileen Ormsby: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-ormsby-3449a86b?originalSubdomain=auAntonia Pont: https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/antonia-pontJenny Sinclair: https://sites.google.com/view/jennysinclair/homeShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, Geelong Regional Libraries for event hosting, and Griffith Review and Deakin University Gender and Sexuality Studies for partnering.

How women are represented and seen by society impacts hugely on their status in our communities. Gender inequality has its root causes in our cultural attitudes to women.This IWD2019 conversation takes a long hard look at what representation looks like -- in the news, on our screens, on stages, in Parliament and policy.Panelists Timmah Ball, Rachael Brown, Santilla Chingaipe, Jane Gilmore and chair Veronica Sullivan unpick the ways we see women as a defining factor of how women’s lives unfold.Hosted by the Victorian government's Department of Premier and Cabinet for IWD2019.Feminist Writers Festival holds a biennial festival, year-round one-off events, monthly publishing and occasional podcasts.Web: www.feministwritersfestival.comFacebook: @feministwritersfestInsta/ Twitter: @femwritersfestPanelistsTimmah Ball https://au.linkedin.com/in/timmah-ball-78a64621Rachel Brown @RachBrownABC Santilla Chingaipe http://www.santillachingaipe.comJane Gilmore http://janegilmore.comVeronica Sullivan http://veronicasullivan.comShout OutsKel Butler from Listen Up Podcasting for editing and pod mentoring.Women Victoria for funding support, and the Department of Premier and Cabinet for event hosting.