Adopcalypse
141 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -Apodcalypse is a genre-bending choose-your-own-adventure podcast set in the year 2050. Hosted by comedian and performer Lou Wall, each episode pits two queer women and non-binary folk up against the climate apocalypse, testing their survival skills with big ethical questions like: help or run? stay or slay? Coke …. Or Pepsi? It’s the end of the world; bring on the dramageddon!
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Meet our feminist historian in residence barbara wheeler
April 30, 2024 03:59Barbara Wheeler is a cultural heritage management specialist and a fibre and textile artist. Her multidisciplinary approach delivers heritage projects that resonate with community values and integrity.
Melissa Lucashenko acclaimed Aboriginal writer of Goorie and European heritage
April 30, 2024 01:12Miles Franklin–winning Goorie author Melissa Lucashenko discusses her epic and heartrending work of historical fiction Edenglassie.
Women* Now Artist Interview: Emma Stenhouse
January 16, 2024 23:49Emma Stenhouse is a proud Ngarrindjeri woman and a contemporary indigenous artist on a journey of self discovery, deepening her connection with her family, exploring her heritage, and inspired by her love of Country.
Women* Now Artist Interview: Fleassy Malay
December 14, 2023 00:10Meet Fleassy Malay one of the artists who has work in the WOMEN* NOW exhibition. Fleassy is a writer, spoken word artist, illustrator and wearable art jewellery designer.
Ann Soo Lawrence is an artist who shares her journey of diagnosis and recovery from early breast cancer
October 23, 2023 00:18It is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ann Soo Lawrence talks to us about her journey of diagnosis and recovery from early breast cancer. Ann is currently exhibiting her artwork at QVWC and it was through setting up her exhibition at the QVWC that our programming coordinator Piper Huynh connected Ann to Counterpart one of our tenants here at QVWC who support women going through Breast Cancer.
Eliza Hull is a musician, writer and disability advocate
September 25, 2023 03:06Eliza Hull is a musician, writer and disability advocate based in country Victoria. Her most recent book Come Over To My House (co-written by Sally Rippen) is a children’s book exploring the wide spectrum of disabilities in families and is a great way to introduce disability to young children.
Roz Campbell is the founder of social enterprise Tsuno
September 06, 2023 00:25Roz Campbell is the founder of Tsuno, a social enterprise supplying bamboo fibre pads and organic cotton tampons, which donates 50% of profits to charities empowering women and girls living in poverty.
Emily Somers is the founder of Bravery Co.
September 04, 2023 01:52Emily Somers is the founder of Bravery Co., a motivational speaker, an Art Director, coffee addict, a beach lover and a Mum. She founded Bravery Co. after her second stint with cancer after struggling to find any cool cancer headwear.
Fatima Yousufi is a soccer player with the Afghanistan's Women's National Soccer Team
July 13, 2023 00:17Fatima Yousufi is a 21-year-old soccer player who honed her skills on the field as a member of Afghanistan's Women's National Soccer Team before having to flee the Taliban in 2021.
Tamala Shelton is a proud Bundjalung and Lamalama actor, writer and activist
May 24, 2023 04:29Tamala started acting as a teenager and starred in shows such as Upper Middle Bogan, Nowhere Boys and Cleverman. She has since been recording a multitude of First Nations audiobooks and is the host of Storybox Library.
Freya Bennett, founder of Ramona Magazine, interviews her mum Jane Bennett one of Australia’s best known menstrual educators
May 11, 2023 00:57Author of multiple books, Jane Bennett founded Celebration Day for Girls and the Chalice Foundation to continue to share her wisdom on menstruation. Her daughter, Freya Bennett, founder of Ramona Magazine was excited to sit down and chat with her about her lifetime of experience learning and teaching the menstrual cycle.
Kgshak Akec is a young writer, poet and lover of words
April 29, 2023 23:53At 26 years old, Kgshak Akec is a passionate and dedicated writer, poet, and lover of words. She is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Creative Writing at Deakin University, and is also an artist in residence at Somebody's Daughter Theatre Company in Melbourne.
Creative Resilience Project update with Janet Bromley
March 20, 2023 00:43The Queen Victoria Women's Centre will unveil Creative Resilience as part of YIRRAMBOI Festival in early May, we chatted with Janet Bromley from the collective to see how the project is going.
Meet Yan Tang So, Senior Seamstress at Second Stitch
September 17, 2022 00:43Yan Tang So moved from Guangdong, China to Australia in 1993. Though she was a trained textiles teacher, Yan found it challenging to find work when she arrived. It wasn’t until 2020 that Yan began working at Second Stitch, a textile training centre and production studio in Melbourne, which aims to empower women from diverse backgrounds, both economically and socially.
Vanessa is sexologist and the founder of Mia Muse
July 24, 2022 23:57Vanessa is a sexologist and the founder of Mia Muse, a sex and wellness platform for women. She is also the author of Big Pussy Energy, a deck of cards filled with wisdom and rituals to connect people to their fierce femme power.
Georgia MacGuire from Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini Art Collective
June 16, 2022 04:51The QVWC has commissioned Ngardang Girri Kalat Mimini (NGKM), to create a public artwork. NGKM is a collective of First Nations women and trans diverse artists from across Victoria. The artwork will commemorate and celebrate stories of Aboriginal women artists from South-Eastern Australia and is funded through the Victorian Women’s Public Art program with Regional Arts Victoria. NGKM’s lead artist Georgia Macguire will be collaborating on Creative Resilience with Lorraine Brigdale, Ann...
Zoë Condliffe: data activist, gender advocate, researcher and Founder of She’s A Crowd
June 15, 2022 00:24Zoë Condliffe is a data activist, gender advocate, researcher and Founder & CEO of She’s A Crowd, the world’s largest database of gender-based street harassment. She’s worked in gender and youth advocacy for Plan International Australia, where she pioneered digital crowdmapping, Free To Be, the Youth Activist Series and Girls’ Walks. From there she started She’s A Crowd, leveraging the power of storytelling to address gender-based violence in public spaces.
Zoë Condliffe is a data activist, gender advocate and founder of She’s A Crowd
June 15, 2022 00:24Zoë Condliffe is a data activist, gender advocate, researcher and Founder & CEO of She’s A Crowd, the world’s largest database of gender-based street harassment. She’s worked in gender and youth advocacy for Plan International Australia, where she pioneered digital crowdmapping, Free To Be, the Youth Activist Series and Girls’ Walks. From there she started She’s A Crowd, leveraging the power of storytelling to address gender-based violence in public spaces.
Meet our Resident Organisations: CASA House
May 16, 2022 00:23Meet our Resident Organisations: CASA House
Meet our Intern: Jordan Brebner
May 10, 2022 02:56Meet our intern, Jordan Brebner. Jordan has been studying International Studies at RMIT & is working with the team until the early June.
Meet our Tenants: Women & Mentoring
April 11, 2022 03:48Tell us about what your organisation does? WAM is a community organisation providing critical support to vulnerable women involved in the criminal justice system by matching them one-on-one with a mentor. The volunteer mentors help these women to get their lives back on track, reduce recidivism and address the issues behind their offending. The mentoring relationship can: Support women to develop and implement life skills and build protective factors to reduce offending and the cycle of ...
Meet our Resident Organisations: Women & Mentoring
April 11, 2022 03:48Tell us about what your organisation does? WAM is a community organisation providing critical support to vulnerable women involved in the criminal justice system by matching them one-on-one with a mentor. The volunteer mentors help these women to get their lives back on track, reduce recidivism and address the issues behind their offending. The mentoring relationship can: Support women to develop and implement life skills and build protective factors to reduce offending and the cycle of ...
Meet our Resident Organisations: Women and Mentoring
April 11, 2022 03:48Tell us about what your organisation does? WAM is a community organisation providing critical support to vulnerable women involved in the criminal justice system by matching them one-on-one with a mentor. The volunteer mentors help these women to get their lives back on track, reduce recidivism and address the issues behind their offending. The mentoring relationship can: Support women to develop and implement life skills and build protective factors to reduce offending and the cycle of ...
Meet our Tenants: Council for Single Mothers & their Children
April 11, 2022 03:40Tell us about what your organisation does? Council of Single Mothers and their Children is a non-profit organisation that provides specialist support services for single mother families and advocates on their behalf. CSMC offers information, support and referrals on issues such as parenting solo, government benefits, child support, housing, family violence, managing money, and work and study. Our advocacy focuses on poverty, social security, child support, family law and housing and is inf...
Meet our Resident Organisations: Council for Single Mothers & their Children
April 11, 2022 03:40Tell us about what your organisation does? Council of Single Mothers and their Children is a non-profit organisation that provides specialist support services for single mother families and advocates on their behalf. CSMC offers information, support and referrals on issues such as parenting solo, government benefits, child support, housing, family violence, managing money, and work and study. Our advocacy focuses on poverty, social security, child support, family law and housing and is inf...
Meet our Resident Organisations: Council for Single Mothers and their Children
April 11, 2022 03:40Tell us about what your organisation does? Council of Single Mothers and their Children is a non-profit organisation that provides specialist support services for single mother families and advocates on their behalf. CSMC offers information, support and referrals on issues such as parenting solo, government benefits, child support, housing, family violence, managing money, and work and study. Our advocacy focuses on poverty, social security, child support, family law and housing and is inf...
Writing Under the Influence - Race
February 21, 2022 04:51Being a POC playwright is automatically getting defensive when you receive an email out of the blue asking you to write about The Experience of Being a POC Playwright, specifically. I considered trying to write a thoughtful, emotional piece about how by writing this piece, I would be replicating the thing I fear, which is the ghettoisation of ‘diverse’ work by major theatre companies – where the ‘diverse’ projects get advertised to ‘diverse’ audiences who are craving representation of othe...
What's the Point of Perfomativity?
February 21, 2022 04:50There 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 hierarchies of race, ability, class and gender that benefit from the status quo. On the other is the same old symbolic and self-referential acts designed to absolve those with power of the guilt they confess to harbouring. These very same acts are pe...
Walking away, backwards
February 21, 2022 04:48When I got asked to write something for Feminist Writers Festival, I started to say no. I typed up a new version of the response I’ve sent so many times that I should probably just save it as a template: Thanks for thinking of me! I really appreciate the invitation, but at present I feel it’s not my place as not-a-woman to take this platform… But FWF editor Cher and I chatted a bit more, and I came around to the idea that perhaps this conversation is worth having in public, especially in a ...
Towards a Fairer Game - The fight for maternity rights in women's sport
February 21, 2022 04:46Angela Pippos writes in her book on sexism in sport, Breaking the Mould, that ‘sport is an important part of the feminist movement.’ However: Gender inequalities in sport – which are just as (if not more) sweeping as those faced by women in other industries – are sometimes given short shrift by feminists. Women’s sport rarely gets a place on feminist news sites, and it has historically been considered too frivolous or (ironically) too masculine to be worth fighting for. Since 2015, women’s...
The Real Work of Care
February 21, 2022 04:44A span of six years is a long time between drinks in the publishing industry. Especially when your first novel does quite well, you really want to establish yourself by following it– bam! – with a second. In an ideal world, the first would have been followed swiftly by the second, building words upon words into a straight-forward career progression. But something happened in between my first book, As Stars Fall (2014), and my second, Where We Begin, my recently released Gothic take on a you...
The Politics of Health
February 21, 2022 04:43Written by Katarina Bryant as part of the FWF2020 ThinkIn, The Politics of Health. Last week, I saw a tweet praising Australia’s healthcare system. The person who had posted the tweet had gone into hospital for appendicitis, and had come out with both their appendix removed and no bill charged. The thread was littered with similar stories admiring the system: babies delivered safely, gashes stitched up in emergency departments. And while the tweet did mention that this scenario would not be...
The Domestic and the Domestic - Violence in Australian Fiction
February 21, 2022 04:41Domesticity is supposed to be cosy, isn’t it? A tea on the couch and a cuddle in the dark. But, linguistically at least, it quickly turns. Add an ‘a’ to the start and you get a row. Add ‘violence’ to the end and you get what, according to a 2019 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, millions of Australians have experienced from a partner – physically, sexually, emotionally. The modern iteration of the word ‘domestic’ also has a broader meaning. Of home and also the country we’...
Strategic White Womanhood - Ruby Hamad's White Tears, Brown Scars
February 21, 2022 04:38In May 2018, Ruby Hamad wrote an article published in Guardian Australia that received enormous backlash and support. The piece highlighted a phenomenon experienced all too often by women of colour: white woman tears. Hamad suggested that there is “a pattern so predictable it work[s] like a blueprint” when it comes to how conflict unfolds between white women and women of colour: when confronted by a woman of colour, white women tend to fall back on their racial privilege by accusing said w...
Silence & Violence against women of colour - remembering Eunji Ban & Renea Lau
February 21, 2022 04:35A vigil for Eurydice Dixon, left; memorial flowers for Renea Lau, right. Source: AAP There are two stories that have been haunting me a great deal lately. The first concerns Eunji Ban, who was murdered in Brisbane on 24 November 2013. The 22-year-old student was walking to her cleaning job at a hotel in the CBD when she was beaten unconscious, dragged face down up a flight of concrete steps to Wickham Park, dumped beneath a tree and left to drown in her own blood. The killer, who broke virt...
Seeing Violence in multiple shades - Sophie Hardcastle's Below Deck
February 21, 2022 04:21Sophie Hardcastle’s debut novel has attracted significant attention, with international rights already taken up and celebrated by Allen & Unwin UK, the same publishers releasing it here in Australia. The novel has also been endorsed by several significant figures, including Brooke Davis, Clementine Ford and Bri Lee. Attention like this, while nice to see growing around a new Australian author, always makes me a little nervous when the work in question is dealing with sensitive and intricate ...
Searching for Mary Lee
February 21, 2022 04:16Often, only disparate and fragmented traces that remain of women’s lives in Australian history, and this makes telling their stories difficult. Some stories are minimal accounts, others neglected, many erased completely because of a lack of sufficient sources. In some instances a lack of women’s records and their subsequent stories have been misinterpreted as an absence of women’s contribution to the development of Australian society and culture. My book, Mary Lee: The life and times of a ‘...
Say Hello - Doing Disability Activism My Own Way
February 21, 2022 04:14Around a year ago, I got a book deal to write a memoir. Due out early next year, Say Hello will tell my story of life with the rare, severe skin condition ichthyosis. Writing this book has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but not just because of the length or the subject matter. It’s because in the process of writing this book, my disability activism has been questioned. There has been silence from people I thought were friends. There have been suggestions about what I need to include...
RUBY HAMAD’S LEGACY BOOKS
February 17, 2022 04:01This piece was performed at Legacy Books, FWF18 Sydney. When I was seven years old, my second grade teacher made a ‘book’ out of the first short story I ever wrote, called Tilly the Witch. After typing the manuscript on a manual typewriter (hey, it was the 80s), she bound it in laminated red cardboard and illustrated it with black and white photos she took of myself and my classmates dressed up as the characters, with myself as Tilly. Though that book is lost to me now, a victim lost to m...
RELEARNING- SEX WORK DURING COVID-19
February 17, 2022 03:59This is the year we were taught en masse to wash our hands. We needed charts and songs and sponsored ads on our phones to tell us we must wet our hands with water, apply enough soap to cover one’s hands and rub our hands together. Twenty seconds and no less! This seemed like new information to many who were re-navigating the interconnected world we exist in. Relearning the world — sharing that we are doing; relearning the interconnected nature of our environment. The environment has change...
REDEMPTIVE ENDINGS
February 17, 2022 03:57By nature, I am a confessional writer. The more difficult, dramatic, my life is – the better I actually fare. Artistically that is. And yet, it has taken me twenty years to dare to tell one of my most transformative stories, the one which prompted me to move from Israel to Australia. A brief version of the story, or rather a personal essay, ‘Bruised’, appears in my latest book Split. In it, two passionate love affairs of mine – with a man and a city – end simultaneously. When it begins, I h...
PUTTING PAIN ON THE PUBLIC RECORD- KYLIE MASLEN’S SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS
February 17, 2022 03:54The last five years have seen a surge in memoirs by women examining their lives through the lens of societal marginalisation, thrusting experiences usually dismissed or ignored into the public eye. The marginalised experience is made undeniable through the author’s intimate disclosures, concretising the existence of whole, complex humans behind demographic labels such as disabled, person of colour, queer, and so on. In Kylie Maslen’s debut Show Me Where It Hurts, she firmly joins this coteri...
White Feminists - What are you willing to give up?
February 14, 2022 02:22In 1989, the Hawke government handed down its National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia, calling on ‘all Australians’ to embrace diversity and a shared commitment to furthering ‘national interest’. At the time, I was four years old. Yet I recall a distinct language of ‘tolerance’ that infiltrated the decade that followed. Australia’s version of multiculturalism enabled the government to espouse ideas of ‘good’ and ‘assimilating’ citizenship in efforts to homogenise and control. This is ...
Latoyah Forsyth & Jessie Upton talk about our community partnership with Melbourne Recital Centre
February 10, 2022 00:12QVWC is excited to be working with Melbourne Recital Centre on a new cultural community partnership. We speak to Latoyah Forsyth & Jessie Upton to learn more about what participants can expect.
Molly George: YWCA Young Board Member
October 17, 2021 22:50Jessamy Gleeson sat down to have a chat with Molly George from the YWCA board. Read her interview and find out more about the work of YWCA.
Ella Mason: Founder of Pony Club Gym
September 16, 2021 04:59Pony Club is a gym for everyone, but it’s also a queer-owned gym. It's a gym that believes all people deserve to have access to strength, fitness and well being, regardless of who they are, how they live or what they believe. Read her interview with Jessamy Gleeson.
Publish and perish - Gendered precarity, productivity & university leadership in Covid-19
August 03, 2021 06:08By Briony Lipton ‘It is important we all continue the upward trajectory, including at this time when we prioritise the needs of our researchers as well as the health and safety of our community’ the university email reads. Just one message among many emails received throughout institutional inboxes during the first Australian lockdown amidst a global pandemic. Within only a few months, COVID-19 has triggered unprecedented changes to societies on a global scale. According to the Australian ...
Personal, political - #metoo - stories from the Australian movement
August 03, 2021 06:05By Nina Funnell In October 2017, the #MeToo hashtag went viral after Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano urged other women to share their stories of sexual harassment and assault on Twitter. Within three days, the hashtag had been translated into 85 languages and today, it has been used more than 20 million times on Twitter alone. In Australia, author and former newsreader Tracey Spicer received more than 2000 disclosures after tweeting a callout for personal accounts, and an initial rush of s...
Parenting in a pandemic
August 03, 2021 06:01By CB Mako (Content warning: domestic violence) When March 2020 arrived, we realised that we had survived another summer. We got our first sigh of relief after the scorching start to a new decade, when Naarm was covered in a dense blanket of smoke due to bushfires. March was supposedly the official start of autumn. Compounded by the effects of climate change—surviving between school days with extreme temperatures (38℃ and above), remnants of smoky haze, and the odd red summer rain—the star...
One of 80 - A reflection on domestic violence and media reporting
August 03, 2021 05:58By Nour Haydar In 2015, I was shocked by the news of 17- year-old Masa Vukotic’s murder at the hands of serial sex offender Sean Price in Doncaster. A fortnight later, my mother’s picture hit the front page. My mum, Salwa Haydar, was murdered a month before my university graduation. I remember swearing off becoming a journalist because I resented reporters prodding for interviews with my sisters and me only hours after our dad had stabbed our mum to death. As I lay awake in the days aft...