BFF VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE
Saturday 15 October
10:00 am - 3:15 pm AEST
The BFF Virtual Experience brings the best of BFF directly to your computer screens! This is a day for feminist conversation and mobilisation, with the opportunity to hear from community organisations, academics and activists tackling some of the biggest issues concerning Australia today.
Join us for interactive workshops and discussions where we’ll be exploring advocacy in Australia, the latest developments in feminist research as well as the importance of creativity in the feminist process (and more!).
PROGRAM
10:00am AEST
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY AND OPENING
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM AEST
Feminism in the arts panel
With Ash Barnes, Miranda Park & Bonnie Evans
'Feminism in the Arts' examines what gender justice looks like in popular culture in Australia and abroad. Commenting on jazz, hardcore music scene, and true crime media, our PhD researchers bring fresh perspectives on smashing the patriarchy!
Too PUNK for Sexism: How Sexist Attitudes Occur in Australian Punk and Hardcore Music Communities and Why They Stay There
Ash Barnes (they/she)
How Feminist Activism can Challenge Australian Tertiary Jazz Education
Miranda Park (she/her)
“Feminist” True Crime?: Post #MeToo True Crime Television and Contemporary Feminism
Bonnie Evans (she/her)
12:00 PM - 1:30 pm AEST
Domestic & Family Violence: Contemporary Knowledge Panel
With Michelle Gissara, Briony Anderson & Rebecca Shearman
‘Domestic & Family Violence: Contemporary Knowledge' offers new approaches to thinking about and responding the gender-based violence endemic in both Australia and abroad. Our researchers and practitioner examine harm, political action, and accountability in everyday life as well as digital media.
Image-based Sexual Abuse Representation in Victorian News Media
Michelle Gissara (she/her)
Doxxing and the Overturning of Roe v Wade
Briony Anderson (she/her)
What About the Mens?? A Social Accountability Workshop
Rebecca Shearman (she/her)
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM AEST
Feminism in Conflicts Panel
With Renee Dixson & Christine de Matos
2022 is a year fraught with conflicts. From the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Sri Lankan insurrection, power imbalances are being sustained and challenged across the globe. The panellists of 'Feminism in Conflicts' interrogate the possibility of gender justice in these distressing events: is feminism feasible? Can it properly address the large scale human suffering we are witnessing?
Creating the First Digital Archive for Queer Refugees
Renee Dixson (they/them)
Women were occupiers too: Understanding the role of women in the Allied Occupations of Germany and Japan
Christine de Matos (she/her)
Minoo Eslami (she/her)
BFF IN PERSON
Sunday 16 October
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM AEST
On October 16, we are hosting a range of in-person workshops and panels at Events on Oxlades, New Farm. There will be practical, hands-on and interactive workshops as well as more traditional educational seminars.
After being apart for two years, the in-person event is a chance for our community to come together and connect. In addition to workshops and panels, we will have a range of stalls, food and entertainment. Come along and enjoy a day of inclusive feminist conversations and community growth.
PROGRAM
8:30 AM
REGISTRATION
9:00 AM
WELCOME TO COUNTRY by Aunty Kathy AND OPENING
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
ACTIVISM IN 2022 KEYNOTE PANEL
Iree Chow (She/Her)
Pasifika Women's Alliance
Daile Kelleher (She/her)
Children by Choice
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
COMMUNITY PANEL - Prison Abolition/Transformative Justice
Prison Abolition/Transformative Justice
Moderated by The Resistance, this unmissable community seminar features the prominent voices in the Australian abolitionist movement. Join media researcher Dr Heather Anderson, human rights activist Debbie Kilroy OAM, Indigenous Rights campaigner Maggie Munn, and prison abolition advocate CJ in a conversation on what a society with transformative justice looks like.
12:00 PM - 1:00pm
FOOD TRUCKS, stalls & music by red le clerc
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
community panels & INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS (run concurrently)
Community Panel: Disability is Not a Fringe Issue: The Values of Lived Experiences and Inclusivity
Disability is Not a Fringe Issue' centres the voices of women with intellectual disabilities. Experts from WWILD and Community Living Association share their experiences, advocacy, and strategies on fostering happy and healthy family and communities. The session will end with a community engagement round table.
Interactive Workshop: Fashion and Capitalism: Rewrite Our Relationships to Clothes
Fashion is a complex, global machine that operates within the wider structures of capitalism, imperialism and patriarchy. A lot of us are aware of this fact in abstract terms, but what does that actually mean? And how can we begin to understand this system, so that we can better understand our place in the fight to dismantle it?
Interactive Workshop: Paint and Sip
Paint and Sip with a twist! Featuring the talents and artistic direction of Archie Arsenic and Ladybird.
Interactive Workshop: The Pole Gym
Join Cello Bordello for a fun workshop where you will learn a chair tease routine.
2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Community Panels (run concurrently)
Healthcare & Marginalisation
The COVID-19 global pandemic and recent conversations on reproductive rights made one thing clear: we don't all have equal access to healthcare. In this community seminar, experts and activists discuss barriers to healthcare. We hope you will join Vanamali Hermans, Moji Khakbaz, and Jaya Kinhal in their discussion of racial and ethnic discrimination, prejudice against one's gender identity, and ablism as systemic obstacles to healthcare equity.
Deconstructing Sex & Shame
The sex and shame panel is an audience based interactive workshop. Our panel will be leading discussions on the deconstruction of sex and shame from their personal experience and also getting the audience to interact with their own.