The Skin I Am In

Thu 5 May 2022

slq Auditorium 1, level 2, State Library

Main Festival

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

In this ambitious and brilliant book, Skin Deep, author and historian Phillipa McGuinness writes about our largest organ, our outer shell, and its relation to our inner selves. What has the biology of skin to do with race? (Hint: not a lot.) What is the erotic power of touch? And the propulsion of violence? How do we communicate through our skin? Skin Deep explores the social, political and cultural ideas of skin.

Phillipa McGuiness in conversation with Christine Jackman

#Artists

Phillipa McGuinness

Phillipa McGuinness is the author of Skin Deep: the inside story of our outer selves (Vintage, 2022). Her previous book was The Year Everything Changed: 2001, which was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. She has written for The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, Meanjin and Inside Story. A former book publisher, she lives in Sydney.

Christine Jackman

Christine Jackman began her career as a journalist with the Courier-Mail in Brisbane, Australia, in 1993. She has worked in New York as a foreign correspondent for NewsCorp, in the Canberra press gallery and as the Australian's social issues writer. After several years as a staff writer for the Weekend Australian Magazine, Christine embraced freelance journalism, with features published in Good Weekend, Vogue and the Australian Women's Weekly. She is also a communications consultant.