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Our Bodies

with Madison Griffiths, Tanya Hosch, Tara Rae Moss and Grace Tame, moderated by Jamila Rizvi

10 March 2024

In the Concert Hall

Sydney Opera House Presents

Talks and Ideas

In theatre and livestreamed

It’s a source of both strength and vulnerability, of pleasure and pain, of empowerment and trauma; and a contested site of political control. Join these trailblazing thinkers for this agenda-setting conversation about the body. Who controls it, who judges it, and what it tells us about ourselves.

How does it feel, how do you behave, when you own your body, when you are fleshly your-self?

Toni Morrison

In some ways, it was always about the body

It’s judged and pre-judged. It’s targeted and pursued. It’s loved and abused. And from almost the beginning it has been at the centre of our thinking about our rights and our freedoms. 

Join this high profile agenda-setting conversation about our bodies. From the deep connection between trauma and health disorders, to the consistently poor health outcomes for First Nations bodies regardless of social and economic status. From the contest of rights around reproductive freedom to disabled people’s fight for access and respect. From the underdiagnosis and under-treatment of chronic illness among women to the body as a consistent site of the extremes of patriarchal control. 

Join Grace Tame, Tanya Hosch, Madison Griffiths and Tara Rae Moss as they tell Jamila Rizvi about their own experience and find difference and connection across a wide range of issues to do with our bodies and, indeed, ourselves.

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