Balancing Acts: Women in Sport
Erin Stewart + Holly Isemonger
Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland
Culture/Social Equity / Feminism / Sport
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Focusing on a critically under-represented part of Australian culture - specifically the myriad ways non male participants negotiate the traditionally male spectacle of athlecticism - this collection interrogates the way sporting bodies and achievements are portrayed in Australian media and culture.
Holly Isemonger and Erin Stewart
Chair: Liam Ferney
#Artists
Erin Stewart
Erin Stewart is a writer currently based in the UK. She is an opinion columnist for Fairfax and her work has appeared in a range of publications in Australia, the UK, and the US such as Meanjin, ABC Online, and BRIGHT magazine.
She has recently completed a PhD in nonfiction writing at the University of Wollongong.
Holly Isemonger
Holly Isemonger has been published in Cordite, Shabby Doll House and Voiceworks. She is the author of the chapbook Hip Shifts (If A Leaf Falls Press) and Deluxe Paperweight (Stale Objects dePress) .
She tweets @hisemonger.
#Moderator
Liam Ferney
Liam Ferney's most recent collection is Hot Take (Hunter Publishing). It follows on from Content (Hunter Publishing) which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award and Boom (Grande Parade Poets) which was shortlisted for Judith Wright Calanthe Aware and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.
He is a media manager, poet and aspiring left-back living in Brisbane.
