All About Women (AAW) invites audiences to gather and reflect on burning questions about gender, equality, and justice. Order the Festival Pass and watch twelve talks from the 2022 festival.
An annual festival that marks International Women's Day and celebrates extraordinary artists and thinker...
Unrequited romance. Deep friendship. Motherhood. Break-ups. Self-love.
Join Clementine Ford as she explores the manifold ways love makes its home in our hearts.
Presented at All About Women 2022
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For several years writer and broadcaster Clementine Ford made her name as one of Aus...
How do we support those who speak out?
Rosie Batty and Grace Tame hosted by Jamila Rizvi
Presented at All About Women 2022
This talk is recommended for age 15+.
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Rosie Batty and Grace Tame have built their lives around fighting for justice. Together for the first time, they share...
The kind of frank talk that we need to hear.
Roxane Gay and Nakkiah Lui
Presented at All About Women 2022
This talk is recommended for age 15+
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Nothing is off-limits in this conversation between these two incredible writers whose work challenges us with the hard questions about r...
See Laura Tingle, eyebrows and all, in person.
Laura Tingle
Presented at All About Women, 13 March 2022, 4pm AEST
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The tables are turned as the 7.30 journo becomes the interviewee. Expect her trademark blend of political insight, personal observation and wry commentary as she hel...
Five incredible LGBTQI+ writers share a personal tale about their relationship to womanhood, intimate, considered and, as always, rooted in community.
Presented at All About Women 2022
This talk is recommended for age 15+
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Queerstories invites storytellers to share the tale t...
Exploring the reality for women in Afghanistan now.
Hosted by Diana Sayed
Presented at All About Women 2022
At the end of August 2021, Australian and American military forces withdrew from Afghanistan. With the Taliban now in control after the 20-year "war on terror", many are fearful about the...
A friend, a lawyer, and a journalist try to hold power to account.
Michael Bradley, Jo Dyer & Samantha Maiden hosted by Julia Baird
This talk is recommended for age 15+
Presented at All About Women, 13 March 2022, 1.30pm AEDT
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In a posthumous letter, "Kate" accused federal MP an...
Debbie Millman
Presented at All About Women 2022
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Designer Debbie Millman's candid podcast interviews explore obsession, truth-telling and inspiration. Join this event to hear a fascinating conversation about the cultivation of invention and imagination.
Debbie Millman is an author, ed...
Stepping into a First Nations women-led feminist future.
Hosted by Larissa Behrendt with Chelsea Watego, Alison Whittaker and Amy McQuire
Presented at All About Women 2022
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Indigenous women, white feminism and power; colonial violence and self-determination - what are the obstacles and ...
Law and Culture: The Latest in Consent
Bri Lee, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, Amy Thunig & Saxon Mullins
Presented at All About Women 2022
This talk is recommended for age 15+.
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Four of Australia's prominent campaigners against sexual violence get together to discuss our changing understanding...
Imagine a world with no gender binary.
Hosted by Yves Rees
Presented at All About Women 2022
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What would our world look like if gender binaries disappeared completely? Yves Rees leads a provocative panel discussion that seeks to imagine this future where rigid binaries and gende...
Amia Srinivasan and Emma A Jane
Presented at All About Women 2022
This talk is recommended for age 15+
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Consent and power relations, gender justice and the state, pornography and freedom - political philosophy professor Amia Srinivasan refuses to turn away from the hard ques...
Debra Keenahan, Elly-May Barnes & Eliza Hull
Moderated by Lisa Cox
How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night? These are the challen...
Yeena Kirkbright, Aveesha Ash, Winnie Dunn and Randa Abdel-Fatta
All About Women has partnered with Western Sydney-based literacy movement Sweatshop on an emerging writers mentorship program for women and non-binary First Nations, culturally and linguistically diverse writers. For the first time...
Wendy McCarthy
Hosted by Larissa Behrendt
Wendy McCarthy is one of Australian feminism's heroes. She shares her remarkable life and achievements, and the lessons she has learned - and taught us all.
From country schoolgirl to relentless national campaigner for women and children; from passiona...