Bridging academia and activism with Hannah Viney, XYXLab and city planning through a feminist lens, poetry with Alison Whitaker, and #MeToo in China

Tuesday, 14 August 2018 - 7:00am to 8:30am

Tuesday Breakfast August 14th

7.00 am  Acknowledgement of Country

7.05 am  News headlines  

7.20 am   Hannah Viney joins us in the studio to discuss the Australian Women's History Network Symposium that was held in July and the theme of bridging academia and activism.   

7.40 am   Dr Nicole Kalms joins us to talk about the work of XYX Lab, and how city planning through a feminist lens and co-design with women can make cities safer for women and girls.  

8.00 am  Alison Whittaker, Gomeroi poet, life writer and essayist from Gunnedah and Tamworth, and a 2017 Fulbright Indigenous Postgraduate Scholarship recipient, joins us in the studio to talk about her upcoming book Blakwork (from Magabala Books), legal scholarship and activism through words, and to read her poem MANY GIRLS WHITE LINEN.

8.20 am  Alternative news: The team discusses the #MeToo Movement in China amidst government crackdowns, internet censorship, and cultural factors.

Songs

artist: Joyce Wrice
song: Good Morning

artist: Empress Of 
song: Woman Is A Word

artist: DRMNGNOW  
song: Indigenous Land
 
artist: Beyonce  
song: Formation