How to Talk about Consent
Clementine Ford + Diana Reid + Yumi Stynes + Andie Fox
slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library
Main Festival
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
After alleged sexual assault in Parliament House, historic rape allegations against a federal minister, and the voices of Grace Tame, Brittany Higgins and myriad others spotlighting rape culture, how do we continue urgent conversations about consent across generations and genders? In fiction and nonfiction, these writers offer answers.
Panel: Diana Reid, Yumi Stynes, Clementine Ford
Chair: Andie Fox
#Artists
Clementine Ford
Clementine Ford is a writer, broadcaster and feminist community builder living in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the feminist manifestos Fight Like A Girl and Boys Will Be Boys, which have also been published to great acclaim in the UK and the US, and her memoir How We Love, which she adapted into a live stage performance called 'Love Sermon'. In 2017, she won the Matt Richell Award for Best New Writer of the Year at the ABIAs. Her favourite colour is pink.
Diana Reid
Diana Reid is a Sydney-based writer, who recently graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons Philosophy)/Laws. Her first novel, Love & Virtue, was published by Ultimo Press in October 2021. She is currently working on her second novel.
Yumi Stynes
Yumi Stynes is an author and broadcaster working on Gadigal land. She got her start as an interviewer when working as a music reporter on the Foxtel station Channel [V] in the year 2000. She still talks music when taking a shift on national music broadcaster Double J.
Right now she can be heard on the hugely popular ABC podcast 'Ladies, We Need to Talk' - currently in its eighth season talking about taboos around women's issues.
Her groundbreaking books co-authored with Dr Melissa Kang include this year's ABIA Winner for Book of the Year for older Children, Welcome to Sex. The Welcome to series of guidebooks have sold over a quarter of a million copies and been translated into 14 languages.
When it all gets too stressful, Yumi has a food podcast called 'The 5 Minute Food Fix' where she laughs with dear friend and cookbook editor/publisher Simon Davis while giving recipes, hacks and tricks for busy people who love food.
Andie Fox
Andie Fox writes about motherhood and economics through a feminist lens. She is currently writing about parenting teenagers in The Guardian, while she finishes her book. Fox is a contributing author in several anthologies, including Jane Caro's Unbreakable: Women Share Stories of Resilience and Hope, as well as The Good Mother Myth and Mothers at the Margins.
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