Merle Thornton is a delightful, formidable and game-changing pioneering feminist. Bringing the Fight showcases her daring and defiance that helped bring positive change for generations of Australian women.
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Take a stand with Booko: How to think like an activist
From small daily commitments to larger ongoing projects, How to Think Like an Activist offers tangible ways to start building the world you want to live in now, right now.
Take a stand with Booko: Growing Up Disabled in Australia
One in five Australians have a disability. Yet disabled people are still underrepresented in the media and in literature. Growing Up Disabled in Australia generates awareness through interviews, poetry and art.
Take a stand with Booko: Car Crash
Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. Car Crash is a memoir exploring how we grieve in an age of social media and how a tragedy shapes a community.
Take a stand with Booko: The New Climate War
The New Climate War shows how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and to delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.
Take a stand with Booko: Men who hate women
Going undercover, and including interviews with former members of these communities, Men Who Hate Women provides the first, comprehensive look at the roots of misogyny.
Take a stand with Booko: Unfinished
From her dual-continent twenty-year-long career as an actor and producer to her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s story, Unfinished, will inspire a generation around the world to gather courage.
My identity is a superpower – not an obstacle
Hollywood needs to stop resisting what the world actually looks like, says actor, director and activist America Ferrera. Tracing the contours of her career, in this Ted Talk she calls for more authentic representation of different cultures in media and a shift in how we tell our stories.
Take a stand with Booko: Broken
Jenny Lawson suffers from depression. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. But also with brutal humour.
Take a stand with Booko: One Life
Megan Rapinoe is one of the world’s most talented athletes and beyond her massive professional success on the soccer field. In One Life she discusses becoming an icon to millions, boldly speaking out on the issues that matter most.