Sydney Writers' Festival - Sophie Gilbert

Watch the livestream of Sophie Gilbert talking about Girl on Girl streaming direct from the Sydney Writers’ Festival at Bowral Library!

Despite decades of progress, the gains of the feminist movement feel more fragile than ever.

Exploring pop culture from the early 90s to now, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Sophie Gilbert takes a microscope to it all – from Madonna, the Spice Girls, Kate Moss and Britney Spears, to Myspace and the #Girlboss era – uncovering how every form of media has shaped and warped women’s relationships with themselves and with other women.

Are we doomed to never progress? Or can we fight back? Reckon with how pop culture has defined us in this essential discussion. In conversation with Yumi Stynes. 

Sophie Gilbert:

Sophie Gilbert is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she writes about television, books and popular culture. She was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and has previously written for the New York Times, Washington Post, the New Republic and the Brooklyn Rail. She lives in London.

Yumi Stynes:

Yumi Stynes is an author and broadcaster who has been making content for 25 years. Yumi hosts the hit ABC podcast Ladies, We Need to Talk, one of the ABC's most downloaded podcasts, and now in its 9th season.

Yumi co-authored the best-selling Welcome To series of guidebooks for young people on topics like consent, getting your period and sex. The newest book in the series will be out next year.

Yumi has a food podcast called The 5-minute Food Fix where she gets to rave about her love of cooking, recipes and restaurants, and she's returned to her first love – music – and can be currently heard on-air spinning classics and new music every Saturday and Sunday on Double J.

Place: Henrietta Rose Room, Bowral Library
Date: Thursday 16 October
Time: 7:30PM
Bookings: are essential and can be made here. This is a free event.