All posts tagged "#MeToo"
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323Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Trial of Lotta Rae, by Siobhan MacGowan
HISTORICAL FICTION: Set against the Suffragette movement, The Trial of Lotta Rae tells the story of a woman who is failed by the legal system.
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1.2KAdelaide FringeFringe Review: Socially [un]acceptable
Laura Desmond bravely details five very personal accounts of sexual assault that she experienced through her university years and while attending festivals.
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847Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Wife, by Alafair Burke
Six years after leaving his position as a university economics professor, Jason Powell's idyllic life with his wife and child is shattered by accusations of sexual harassment against him from former university colleagues.
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656ArtsCabaret Festival Review: The Girl who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign
Written and performed by Joanne Hartstone this cabaret show is fabulous – it’s entertaining, moving, amusing, has some great songs but more than anything it is thought provoking. There really was a woman who jumped off the Hollywood sign. Peg Entwistle jumped off the Hollywood sign in 1932. Although a successful performer on Broadway after less than a year in Los Angeles she was dead.
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455Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Mother of All Questions, by Rebecca Solnit
This collection of feminist essays covers a wide range of topics including literature, the silencing of women’s voices, sexual assault and motherhood - which is The Mother of All Questions.
