Reclaim the Night Canberra 2023 – Event Information

Taken from the ANU website: “In a world where the injustice of gender violence persists, the law is frequently called on to help address those harms. But can it? Can we address gender harms separately from other harms? Is it enough to appeal to the law – or is the law complicit in the violence and harms that we are protesting against? What other possibilities are there to recognise trauma and address harms, and how might we create a fairer world that we want to live in?

The provocative new graphic novel Once Upon a Time in Australia: how our MeToo movement exposed the troubles of truth in Law (Counterpress, 2023) grapples with these questions. In a collaborative and layered conversation, punctuated by eerie images, dark humour and a spirit of generosity and humility, its three authors (Dr Anne Macduff, Sarouche Razi, and Kirsten Hoffman) explore the tensions between law and truth. The novel explores the connections between gender, colonisation, and climate harms, and in doing so, challenges traditional methods of legal knowing and offers new ways of building justice.”