Aus/NZ Feminist Question Time 24 April 2021

Aus/NZ Feminist Question Time

Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) Feminist Question Time. Our weekly online webinars are attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 300-400. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. You can see recordings of previous panels on our YouTube Channel.

This week’s speakers:

Jack Draper

Jack is a lesbian feminist activist who has worked in women’s services since the 1970's in Sydney, Canberra and Wollongong, where she now lives. She has worked with NGO services for women and children such as a feminist abortion clinic, women's refuges and women’s health centres. She was convenor of Coaliton for Activist Lesbians from 1997-2006, has engaged in women's policy work for 4th WCW in Beijing and has conducted training for the Education Centre Against Violence (ECAV) since 2005. She is also a visual artist with an annual installation re Women murdered by male partners.

Eileen Haley

Eileen lives in Sydney, and is a veteran of the 1970s women's liberation movement, a retired public servant, a creative writer, quilter, and crone. She is also an active member of the Australian WHRC working group.

Jay Park

Jay Park is a young radical feminist from South Korea who is currently studying nursing in Sydney. Jay was involved in organising feminist activism in South Korea including a book conference for Sheila Jeffrey’s in Seoul.

Judi Pattison

Judi Pattison is a second wave feminist/ women’s rights activist whose feminism has evolved across countries and decades. Born and bred in the US, she immigrated to New Zealand in 1971 just as the second wave was igniting. In regional New Zealand she worked in women’s services and women’s studies and filled national and international positions with groups including NZODA, UNIFEM and AusAID and now lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and continues to be actively involved in radical feminist networks.

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