Navigating a Sexed Up World

Speaker; Melinda Tankard Reist

Melinda has a wealth of knowledge and wisdom to share with us all. On the night, Melinda will be speaking broadly, covering a wide range of issues which impact us all. This event is for parents, grandparents, children's and youth workers. Due to the content of this event it is best suited for ages 14 and older.

This is one event not to missed! 

Melinda Tankard Reist is an author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for women and girls. She is best known for her work addressing sexualisation, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women.

Melinda is a regular guest on morning television, a regular contributor to the ABC and has also appeared on Q&A, The Gruen Sessions and many other TV and radio programs. Melinda is co- founder of the grassroots campaigning movement Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, exposing corporations, advertisers and marketers who objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services.

She has written/edited five books including the best selling Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls, now in its 9th printing, Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (co-edited with Dr Abigail Bray) and her new release Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade (co-edited with Dr Caroline Norma).

An ambassador for World Vision Australia, Compassion Australia, Hagar NZ and the youth mentoring Raise Foundation, Melinda is named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women.