This is the talk I gave for the online launch of my new book, Out of the Fog: On Politics, Feminism and Coming Alive. The launch was hosted by Spinifex Press and took place on Tuesday, October 18, 2022. Thank you to everyone who attended and put up with significant technical glitches! Also – Out of the Fog is …
It’s hard to know how to preface an essay about the Dutch-Jewish diarist Etty Hillesum, who lived in Amsterdam under Nazi occupation, and whose last journal entry was written a year before she was murdered at Auschwitz, while living between Amsterdam and Westerbork, a labour camp for Jews in the Dutch east. I want to …
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Below is the text of a twelve-minute talk I gave in Brisbane on October 12, 2019. The talk can be viewed here. The event was hosted by the International Women’s Day Brisbane/Meanjin committee, and the other presentations on transgenderism and rape culture, lesbian erasure, women’s reproductive rights, sports and the left, can be found on …
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