UNSW-sponsored sessions range from feminism to global inequality, hate politics, small-town secrets, the legacy of the Russian Revolution and the fate of scandalous women.ĭr Bianca Fileborn, Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, will delve into the complexity of creating strong women in fiction, in conversation with authors Kathryn Heyman, Zoë Morrison and Laura Elizabeth Woollett. The event is sold out but fans can add their names to a waitlist.įor the eighth year, UNSW Arts & Social Sciences is a Major Partner of the Festival, which runs from 22-28 May. In conversation with UNSW’s Dr Emma Jane, Gay will discuss her essays, her short story collection Difficult Women and her upcoming memoir Hunger. New-York based Gay will elaborate on her contribution to the contemporary feminist debate at a free event at UNSW on 24 May, What’s Feminism Got To Do With It?, as part of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival. The sentiment struck a chord with other women who found it hard to be an ideal feminist with perfect politics, whether that involved enjoying misogynistic rap music or having opinions that felt incompatible with feminist ideology. “I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human,” US writer Roxane Gay declared in her best-selling collection of essays Bad Feminist.
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