The Emerging Writers’ Festival acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we live, learn and work, and pays respect to their Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

 

EWF celebrates the history and contemporary creativity of the world’s oldest living culture.

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EWF X, Online & Performance

EWF X Disability Justice Network: Dreaming Disability Justice

Imagine: disabled people finally have time to breathe deeply, to rest. Imagine we have made it to a future beyond eugenics, pandemics, climate disasters, ableism, and racial and colonial violence that uniquely impact disabled people. Imagine new systems of caring for one another; a new world. How exactly can we get there?

Join five disabled writers from across so-called Australia in this storytelling event as they share their dreams of a future grounded in disability justice.

This event will be AUSLAN interpreted and live captioned


How to attend this event

EWF X Disability Justice Network: Dreaming Disability Justice is a live event, hosted via Zoom.

To ensure the event stays private, ticket holders will be emailed a Zoom link and password 30 minutes prior to the event start time. Please check your email (including that pesky junk email folder).

Ticket bookings will cease 1 hour before the event starts.

You can download Zoom for free here.


Thursday 17 June, 7-8pm AEST

$10 / NOTAFLOF*

*No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds

To pre-book a NOTAFLOF ticket, please email us at least 24 hours prior to the event.

Online, via Zoom

Featuring...

Julia Rose Bak

Julia Rose Bak is a sick, queer, Māori-Polish writer, survivor and abolitionist born and raised in Boorloo, so-called Perth, and based in Narrm, so-called Melbourne.

Margot Beavon-Collin

Margot is a history and political economy student at the University of Sydney, where she has served as an elected Disability Officer since 2020, and helped run the Disability Collective.

Vanamali Hermans

Mali Hermans is a Wiradjuri writer, organiser and community worker living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. As a disabled woman, Mali is deeply invested in disability justice work, committed to challenging ableism and its intersections with colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy and class.

Tori Hobbs

Tori Hobbs is a queer, non-binary, disabled, low income, Burgher writer and care worker living on Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri land.

Elena Macdonald

Elena Macdonald is a young, disabled Paredarerme person who passionately engages with disability justice, abolition, and Indigenous philosophies in their day-to-day practice. They write, create, and live between Naarm and Trouwunna/lutruwita.

Muhib Nabulsi

Muhib Nabulsi is a disabled person living with chronic illnesses, an unproductive writer, a novice filmmaker, a 2nd gen diaspora Palestinian (aka a Palestinian), a disorganised community organiser, and a service industry worker.