Every month we publish new and commissioned works by feminist writers and thinkers,
as well as a Q&A with a fabulous feminist.
Jessie Tu is the author of A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing. What does feminism mean to you? It means centering myself as emblematic of how a full human being can be. Basically, giving myself and other women the honour, dignity, care, and attention that men have...
By Eda Gunaydin I can’t seem to call myself a feminist anymore, although it used to be a hill I was willing to die on. But it is a hill. Having failed to develop a political consciousness until I entered university, it seemed correct to organise around what I observed...
By Roj Amedi There are two conversations being had in response to our current moment of global pandemics, entrenched racial injustice and ecological collapse. On one side is a growing push to change the way our societies function ― a call to interrogate the...
Ambelin Kwaymullina is a writer, illustrator and law academic, who comes from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Her book Living on Stolen Land is a prose-styled look at our colonial-settler ‘present’. What does feminism mean to you?...
Jo Lennan is a lawyer and writer. In the Time of Foxes is her debut short story collection. Is there a moment you recall that shaped your own idea of feminism? When I was in high school – a pretty ordinary public high school in the country – my art teacher went out of...
Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most prominent authors. Her latest novel, A Room Made of Leaves, is set in the brutal, sexist world of early colonial Australia. Is there a moment you recall that shaped your own idea of feminism? In 1970, when I was twenty,...
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