Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Wednesday 16 September
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Location
wheelercentre.com
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 – including lawyer and human rights advocate Nyadol Nyuon, author of All Our Relations, Tanya Talaga and author of White Negroes, Lauren Michele Jackson – will discuss women’s political activity online and on the streets today.
What can feminism learn from other movements for justice? How do demands for a more rigorous and inclusive feminism – especially in popular culture and on social media – play out in people's real lives and everyday experiences? How are trends in activism helpful and how are they harmful? And what should we make of the proliferation of black-square Instagram posts and anti-racist reading lists?
Our online bookseller for this event will be Neighbourhood Books.
The Broadly Speaking series is proudly supported by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and family.
Featuring
Amy McQuire
Amy McQuire is a Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman from Rockhampton, Central Queensland. She is a prolific Aboriginal affairs journalist, academic, writer and commentator who has been published in Guardian Australia, the National Indigenous Times ...
Lauren Michele Jackson
Dr. Lauren Michele Jackson teaches in the Departments of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue… and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation. Her work (research, criticism, essays, and – on occasion – poetry) has appeared in the Atlantic, the Awl, Feminist Media Studies, Hayden’s Ferry Review, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Point magazine, Rolling Stone, Spoon River Poetry Review, New York Magazine’s Vulture, and the Washington Post among other places. She is currently at work on a second book, with Amistad Press.
Tanya Talaga
Tanya Talaga is the acclaimed author of Seven Fallen Feathers, a multi-award winner including the RBC Taylor Prize, the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the First Nation Communities READ: Young Adult/Adult Award. The book was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize and the BC National Award for Nonfiction.
Talaga was the 2018 CBC Massey Lecturer, and is the author of the US bestseller All Our Relations. For more than 20 years, she has been a journalist at the Toronto Star. Talaga is of Polish and Ojibwe descent. Her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. She lives in Toronto with her two teenage children.
Nyadol Nyuon
Nyadol Nyuon is a commercial litigator with Arnold Bloch Leibler and a community advocate.
She was born in a refugee camp in Itang, Ethiopia, and raised in Kakuma Refugee camp, Kenya. At eighteen, Nyadol moved to Australia as a refugee. Since then she has completed a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne.
Outside her work, and through the experiences of her family and community, Nyadol has developed an interest in issues concerning human rights, multiculturalism, the settlement of refugees and those seeking asylum. She has volunteered extensively in relation to these areas has worked with governmental and non-governmental organisations.
In both 2011 and 2014, Nyadol was nominated as one of the hundred most influential African Australians. She is currently a board member of the Melbourne University Social Equity Institute.
In terms of advocacy, Nyadol has presented at various conferences and forums on issues impacting the settlement of African Australians in Victoria and Australia in general. She regularly appears in the media, including recent appearances on the ABC’s The Drum and as a panellist on Q&A.