The Sydney Opera House ideas festival took on everything from beauty standards to the appalling failure to protect women
Yesterday was International Women’s Day – you might have been alerted to this when an empowering discount code landed in your inbox. But it feels hard to spend too much time being vexed by the cringey corporate interference when women are still being murdered on school runs and in their homes, and dying in police custody. 61 women were the victim of homicide in Australia last year. Nine have already been killed in 2020. According to women’s safety advocates, the government is ignoring experts and not doing enough. We have bigger things to be angry about.
A conversation about domestic violence was one of the first sessions at this year’s All About Women. The annual Sydney Opera House festival also devoted panels to topics like ageism, the women of Isis, race, sexual violence and abortion, with a speaker line-up including Yael Stone, Clementine Ford and Chanel Miller, the survivor of the Stanford University rape case. (Keynote speaker Lindy West cancelled her appearance late last week.) Here are four takeaways from the 2020 event.
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