AWW22 The Reckoning - Jess Hill and Grace Tame

Chaired by Jo Dyer


CW: Discussion of child sexual abuse, rape, sexual assault. 2021
was a year of reckoning. When Grace Tame accepted the Australian
of the Year Award in January 2021, she exhorted survivors of
sexual violence, long silenced by shame and law, to use their
voices and “make some noise”. They’ve been doing just that ever
since. Grace and Jess Hill, author of Quarterly Essay 84: The
Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia, discuss the dramatic
events of the last fifteen months, their impact on contemporary
politics, and how the fight for women’s justice has reshaped the
nation.