The problem of sexual exploitation is enormous. But at the same time, new opportunities to take back ground are emerging as societies around the globe recognise that what is needed to beat this insidious form of exploitation is a proactive, co-ordinated, multi-agency approach. Now, more than ever, the growing movement to end sexual exploitation needs to work together to establish a new norm – a world free of all forms of exploitation. At the summit, leaders from this movement, along with special guest speakers, will equip, encourage and inspire those who gather. And together, we will harness the combined power that unity brings and achieve real change for human dignity and justice in our State and Federal governments.

Spinifex authors JULIE BINDEL, MELINDA TANKARD REIST,  RENATE KLEIN and Spinifex contributor CAITLIN ROPER are all speaking at ASASE this year.

For further details please go to the ASASE website here. 

 

Promoting women's writing around the world - Kim Chakanetsa brings together the heads of pioneering feminist publishing houses in Australia and India, and asks how they stay relevant in an age of self-publishing and e-books? Susan Hawthorne runs Spinifex Press in Queensland. She and her partner Renate Klein set it up in 1991 as a response to what they saw as a dearth of diversity in Australian publishing. She says that despite the proliferation of online platforms for writers to publish their work in recent years, they still find they need a real publisher to select, edit and promote them. Susan finds her books in a variety of ways, but is frustrated by the mainstream publishing sector's focus on 'star authors'. Susan is also a writer and her new novel Dark Matters is about a lesbian who is tortured. Urvashi Butalia co-founded India's first exclusively feminist publishing house in 1984, and now runs Zubaan books based in New Delhi. Her aim is to reflect the experiences of marginalised women and she says she is also seeing a resurgence of interest from young women - and young men - in the history of the women's movement in India. Urvashi is an award-winning author herself, whose best known book is The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India.

LISTEN TO THEIR DISCUSSION HERE

 


Dr Caroline Norma, contributing author to Big Porn Inc will be presenting at this conference next month.
'Pornography and harms to children and young people'
Tuesday, February 09, 2016 at 08:30 AM 
University of New South Wales in Kensington, Australia
For more information see:
http://www.collectiveshout.org/event


   

Spinifex director, Susan Hawthorne, is speaking at the International Committee of Independent Publishers in Paris, from October 4-6.

Francesca Rendle-Short's Bite Your Tongue has been shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award!

The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University and recognises ‘the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life’.

The winner of this year’s award will be announced on 19 October.

Congratulations, Francesca!

'Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry' has made the Australian Educational Publishing Awards shortlist as a Secondary Reference Resource!

Congratulations to Dr Vandana Shiva, author of Soil Not Oil and Staying Alive, who has been honoured with the 2012 Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate Award. For her powerful messages and the initiative in mobilizing people in a grassroots social movement, Dr. Vandana Shiva rightly deserves the Grand Prize of the Fukuoka Prize.