Every month we publish new and commissioned works by feminist writers and thinkers,
as well as a Q&A with a fabulous feminist.
By Lee Kofman By nature, I am a confessional writer. The more difficult, dramatic, my life is – the better I actually fare. Artistically that is. And yet, it has taken me twenty years to dare to tell one of my most transformative stories, the one which prompted me to...
Michelle Law is a writer and actor working across print, theatre, film and television. She wrote the smash-hit play Single Asian Female, which has sold out seasons and continues to tour across Australia. Her screenwriting...
By CB Mako (Content warning: domestic violence) When March 2020 arrived, we realised that we had survived another summer. We got our first sigh of relief after the scorching start to a new decade, when Naarm was covered in a dense blanket...
Elizabeth Tan is a writer and academic. Her beguiling short story collection Smart Ovens for Lonely People is her second book. What does feminism mean to you? I feel that feminism at its heart means paying careful attention to who is being served – who is being seen,...
Winnie Dunn is the editor of Sweatshop Women: Volume 2, a collection of stories from culturally diverse women from Western Sydney. Ferdous Bahar is a contributing writer. What does feminism mean to you? Winnie Dunn: I actually don’t prescribe to feminism, which I...
Pip Williams is a social scientist and writer. Her debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words is a tale of missing words and the lives of women lived between the lines. What does feminism mean to you? If you’d asked ‘what does feminism mean?’ I would not be able to...
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