Tickets for the Feminist Writers Festival members-only networking day (Friday 26 August) are on sale now, available to purchase online only, here.
Our full program will be unveiled later this week, but for now we can tell you that sessions including feminist publishing, building feminist community, the politics of personal writing, and writing for kids with a feminist lens, will feature feminist writers and commentators from across the country including Clare Wright, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Susan Hawthorne, Evelyn Araluen Corr, Fiona Wright, Monica Dux, Emily Maguire and Lian Low.
Published by Cristy Clark
Dr Cristy Clark is an Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, where she teaches Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Property Law. Her research and academic writing focuses on the intersection of human rights and the environment.
She is the co-author (with John Page) of The Lawful Forest: A critical history of property, protest and spatial justice (EUP 2022), winner of the 2023 Penny Pether Prize. Further information about her academic publications can be found here (or on the ‘publications‘ page of this site).
Cristy is the Co-convenor of the Climate Equality Working Group at the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCCE), Reviews Editor for the Australian Journal of Human Rights, a member of the Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group, and sits on the Board of Legalities – the official journal of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ). In Trinity Term of 2024, Cristy was an Academic Visitor at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Cristy has written about law, human rights, feminism, and environmental politics for a variety of publications, including The Conversation, Right Now, Eureka Street, Kill Your Darlings Journal, ABC The Drum, Overland, The Wheeler Centre online, the Human Rights Defender, and The Big Issue. She has also spoken about these issues in the media, including for The Lawyers Weekly, ABC Outsiders, Radio National’s Life Matters, Beyond Zero Emissions, Chattersquare, and 2ser 107.3.
In 2016, Cristy founded the Feminist Writers Festival in collaboration with Jo Case (for more details see this page).
On this site (under ‘writing‘) you’ll find a sample of Cristy’s writing on issues including law, human rights, feminism, politics, environmental justice, development, and food.
Please do not republish the images or words on this website without prior authorisation (except for short quotes). Thank you.
Cristy can be contacted on cristy dot clark at canberra.edu.au or crisy dot clark at icloud.com
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