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.

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.

Robyn Rowland’s launch speech for Robin Morgan’s new book of poetry, Harvesting Darkness.

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.

Born Still is a very special kind of memoir. It is, as Janet informs us in the opening pages, a political memoir – in which “the personal” – specifically, Janet’s life -- has been rendered so political, by virtue of its disruptive place in institutional systems of power and governance, as to have implications for the law and social practice -- in particular, in relation to home birth and independent midwifery.

Joanna Murray-Smith, playwright, talks about Sue Ingleton's new book: Making Trouble (Tongued with Fire).