Tilly Glascodine and Chi Tran speak with Phuong about about Incendium Radical Library and their upcoming poetry reading event at the NGV this Friday, 18th March from 11am-1pm. To find out more about the library and the event, visit incendiumradicallibrary.com
Daye Gang is a barrister and PhD student. Kannagi spoke with her about her research, which focuses on restorative justice programs and the experience of anti-rape advocates active during the Women's Liberation Movement in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s. Daye also has an international practice in North Korean human rights and law and was the first Korean and first Australian to ever win the prestigious International Bar Association’s Outstanding Young Lawyer for 2020.
Dr Clare Wright is the Professor of History at La Trobe University and co-convenor of A Monument of One’s Own. Last week, the Victorian government announced the artists and projects that will share in its $1 million Victorian Women’s Public Art Program. Of 590 statues across Melbourne, only nine currently depict real women, with the program designed to address the underrepresentation of women in public art. A Monument of One’s Own, a campaign in conjunction with the Victorian Trades Hall Council, received funding from Women’s Public Art Program to honour Zelda D’Aprano, the legendary equal pay campaigner, and Dr Wright spoke to Evie both about the campaign as well as Zelda D'Aprano.
Dr Helen Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate. She founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general. On the 26th of February, Annie from Solidarity Breakfast interviewed Dr Helen Caldicott on her views on Ukraine, and we played a segment of this interview.
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Ivka, Frances, Kannagi, and Phuong
