Pop is the simplest and the most difficult music to define - not strictly a genre and yet thoroughly recognisable when you hear it, pop cuts through country, hip hop, rock 'n' roll, classical, folk and more, to make its presence felt. In the form we know it know, it's not even a century old and yet it influences the way we dress, love, live and yes, think.
Find out more »Melbourne's favourite feminist talk show is returning to Sydney! Cherchez La Femme was created by host Karen Pickering, Director of the Girls On Film Festival (GOFF) and co-founder of SlutWalk Melbourne. Since 2010 Melbourne audiences have flocked to see smart, funny feminists engaging on topics as diverse as sex, cabaret, sport, crime, digital culture, music, sluts, teaching, comedy, film, dating, fashion, public space, pop and fat. In a format that encourages frank insights, unexpected questions and rolling discussion between feminist…
Find out more »Have you ever been to a feminist event and wished you could just head out for a drink, hold hands, and swap numbers with every single person there? This is your chance! CLF is thrilled to present "Meet Cute", an old school mixer with some new ideas, run entirely for feminists to meet other feminists. Meet Cute is the place for you to catch up with a bunch of other excellent babes for friendship, romance, hook-ups or something else entirely!…
Find out more »Another month is passing and another brilliant panel has been assembled for next month's show Cherchez la Femme: Feminism and Work. Many of us are engaged in work, paid or unpaid, be it creative, intellectual, physical, menial, domestic, voluntary, satisfying or otherwise. The issue of how we work and get paid is of particular import to women, who until relatively recently were not a part of traditional labour forces. But work we do! The challenges we face as women working,…
Find out more »It's responsible for delivering some of the most powerful shared experiences in our culture, and some of us were partly raised by it, but it still has a lot to answer for in terms of normalising gender roles and other hegemonic discourses - that's right, it's television, baby, and it's the next topic of discussion at Cherchez la Femme. Do you have favourite feminist shows? Are there 'great' shows you can't bear because they reek of sexism? How about when…
Find out more »After a sold out first show, Meet Cute is back for a winter mixer at Belleville! The first ever Meet Cute resulted in actual dates being had, the creation of some wonderful pick-up lines, and a night of all-round amazingness. We CAN'T WAIT to bring that back for round two! We'll be providing you with all of your favourite modern day mixer activities: a femmo-hacked Cards Against Humanity table, a craft-central table, a games table, personalised topic tables, and much,…
Find out more »It's responsible for delivering some of the most powerful shared experiences in our culture, and some of us were partly raised by it, but it still has a lot to answer for in terms of normalising gender roles and other hegemonic discourses - that's right, it's television, baby, and it's the next topic of discussion at Cherchez la Femme. Do you have favourite feminist shows? Are there 'great' shows you can't bear because they reek of sexism? How about when…
Find out more »100% completely sold out! For as long as humans have existed they've been pretty into seeing depictions of other humans having sex. Whether you call this pornography, erotica, or adult entertainment, you might've noticed it's undergone huge changes recently in terms of availability, content and access. Rather than having a discussion about the validity of porn and whether it should exist, I thought we could talk about the fact that it's ubiquitous, homogenous and mostly monotonous. But as ever, feminists…
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