Coleen Clare launch speech for Lesbian: politics, culture, existence
Coleen Clare launched Susan Hawthorne’s new book - Lesbian: politics, culture, existence on 17 September 2024. She shares her launch speech with us.
Ariel Salleh launch speech for The Nature of Nature
Ariel Salleh shares her launch speech for Vandana Shiva's new book The Nature of Nature. You can watch the full launch on our YouTube channel.
Letter to the Editor
…the old gender stereotypes are being imposed on women in a way even more dogmatic and rigid than anything that went on in the 1950s or the 1970s.
Sandra Coney’s Letter to the Editor (unpublished) on behalf of radical feminists.
Vale Lynne Spender
Susan Hawthorne remembers Lynne Spender, Feminist Writer and Legal Advocate, who passed away 31 May 2024.
Lucy Sussex launch speech for O Sister Swallow
A beautifully written launch speech from Lucy Sussex to celebrate the release of Suniti Namjoshi’s book O Sister Swallow. You can watch the full launch on our YouTube channel.
Vale Dr Dale Spender AM
Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne share their reflections on the remarkable life of Dale Spender who passed away 21 November 2023
Robyn Rowland launch speech for Harvesting Darkness
Robyn Rowland’s launch speech for Robin Morgan’s new book of poetry, Harvesting Darkness.
Spinifex Press has sought to make the voices of Indigenous women heard
As we approach the referendum, it is important that as many of us as possible inform ourselves about our history. Here is a list of books you might want to share with others, especially those who feel uncertain about how to vote in the referendum
Vale Maria Mies (1931-2023)
Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne write about Maria Mies who passed away in May 2023.
Discover our African Writers
Spinifex Press has a great selection of books written by African authors. Explore the selection today.
Vale Suzanne Bellamy
“Suzanne Bellamy was a giant intellect and artist and like so many women before her has been rarely noticed by the mainstream. “
Susan Hawthorne remembers Suzanne Bellamy (1948–2022)
Ecology of the Book
Susan Hawthorne talk - Ecology of the Book - to the International Alliance of Independent Publishers Conference in Pamplona, Spain.
Spinifex Press Anthologies
With the recent publication of Not Dead Yet: Feminism, Passion and Women’s Liberation Susan Hawthorne delved through the Spinifex Press catalogue to re-discover all our anthologies. In the process she discovered we’ve published 37 anthologies in 30 years!
We launch the Not Dead Yet blog
We launch the Not Dead Yet Blog. Please follow and share these reader’s stories with your friends and families. @NotDeadYet
Usha Akella statement from her recent launch
“Why is there a need for feminist poems or literature? Is the proof not in the news we read daily—a violent world of misogyny expressing itself in rapes, the trafficking of children and women and casting a shadow on every sector of human life? Has not every woman or girl-- except a few lucky ones-- felt the breath of patriarchy in the lenses that cloud her vision or the voices that crowd her soul.” Read Usha Akella’s statement at her recent launch for I Will Not Bear You Sons.
Start your radfem library with these must-have Spinifex Press books
If you’ve recently discovered radical feminism and would like to read more about the core issues - prostitution, surrogacy, pornography, misogyny in all its forms - here are some books we’d like to recommend to get your radfem library started.
Transgender Body Politics Launch speech by Bronwyn Winter
But the rapidity with which the transgender lobby has risen to a position of political influence and the number and enormity of consequences for women have forced me, albeit kicking and screaming, into taking up this discussion. Heather also perhaps: she tells in her book’s prologue of having “stumbled” into researching and writing on it by accident.