Every year miscarriage affects up to 150,000 Australians and the people that love them. So why are we so damned bad at dealing with it? Journalist Isabelle Oderberg has written a groundbreaking book...
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Modern leaders steering with their head and heart
Who is the kind of modern leader we need to elect, reward, and celebrate? Through the uncertainty of the past few years, revolving doors of leaders in some governments around the world, and the...
“I understood myself in a whole different way”
From acclaimed author Anna Spargo-Ryan comes A Kind of Magic, a tender, and at times, wry insight into complex mental illness, and indeed, the moments of magic in among it all. BroadAgenda editor...
Leaning Out: tackling women’s Great Exhaustion
In the new book 'Leaning Out', respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has led to a breakthrough. This...
Being an autistic woman in a non-autistic world
What's it like to realise you're autistic? And how do you start to ask the world around you to accept that? Sandra Thom-Jones explores theses questions in her new book 'Growing in to Autism' -...
Celebrating female ancestry and wisdom
'Do you want to meet your Grandma?' is a humorous and insightful book for young children about our shared universal ancestors. It celebrates female wisdom and ancestry. Illustrator Auntie Fonu...
A whistling comedian in a man’s world
Opening a mysterious case of old photographs, former documentary filmmaker Sharon Connolly begins a search for the great aunt she never knew. Gladys Shaw was a whistling comedian, a singer and...
Stepford Wives anniversary: Suburban living turned women into robots
On August 26 1970, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a Women’s Strike. Organised by feminist activist Betty Friedan, the march highlighted the fact women still performed the...
The capitalisation and secrecy of the menstrual industry
Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation, by UK-based academic Dr Camilla Mørk Røstvik, delves into how much we know about the menstrual industry - its surprisingly patriarchal business model, how...