In this minisode from FWF 2018 Legacy Books, Jamila Rizvi talks about the power of the imagination and how books helped her find her place in the world.
“I didn’t have a type or even a favourite genre, I read and loved everything I could get my hands on. Perhaps the only common thread was that all my favourite books featured women and girls.”
Liz Allen is a demographer and social researcher and author of The Future of Us: Democracy gets a makeover What does feminism mean to you? Growing up I felt invisible. The world didn’t see me – I was poor and a girl – and it hurt. With invisibility comes a silence,...
By Vanessa Giron When I first read The Waves by Virginia Woolf, I found myself clinging to one idyllic moment: 'How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on...
Miranda Tapsell is the author of Top End Girl. What does feminism mean to you? Feminism should be about thinking outside of yourself and your needs. It is about prioritising the voices of women who have second or third glass ceilings to break as well. Was there a...