Every powerful woman has someone who inspired her. This March, we’re highlighting those heroes — the mothers, mentors and icons who’ve lifted us up and showed us what’s possible. From life lessons to moments of sheer grit, these stories are tributes to the women who make us stronger. Join us in celebrating female role models who’ve changed lives.

Our performer line-up:

Team 20s Winnie Dunn is a Tongan-Australian writer from Mount Druitt. She is the general manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies including Sweatshop Women (2019) and Another Australia (2022). Winnie's debut novel is Dirt Poor Islanders (2024).

Team 30s Kaiya Aboagye is an Afro-Indigenous scholar, writer and mother to boys. She lectures in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. Her research explores Bla(c)k/Indigeneity and she is passionate about Black ancestral cosmologies. Her ancestral lineages connect her to Erub Island in Torres Straits, Manbarra and Kuku Yalanji of far north Queensland, and the Asante of Ghana.

Team 40s Angela Priestley is the co-founder of the independent daily news publication Women's Agenda. She’s a board member of the Women's And Girls' Emergency Centre, supporting 200 women and children in emergency accommodation every night, and sits on the board of the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom, promoting media freedom. Angela is also a mother of three boys.

Team 50s Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australia’s foremost researchers on social trends. She is the author of numerous books including How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference. She writes regularly for The Monthly, Australian Traveller Magazine, The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a Fellow of Women’s Leadership Institute Australia and The Research Society. Her latest book is Sassafras: A memoir of love, loss and MDMA therapy.

Team 60s Dr Mehreen Faruqi is the Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Senator for NSW. Mehreen became the first Muslim woman to sit in any Australian parliament when she joined the NSW Parliament in 2013. In 2018, she took her proudly feminist and anti-racist approach to Canberra when she joined the federal Senate. In her time in Parliament, Mehreen has been an unflinching voice on social, environmental and racial justice, pushing to dismantle the systems of power, privilege and patriarchy.

Team 70s+ Libby Lloyd AO is a human rights activist, co-founder of the White Ribbon Foundation and an advisor on domestic and family violence policy to successive Australian governments. She has worked with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Indonesia and Iraq, the Commonwealth Public Service, a range of NGOs and various Government Advisory Councils. Libby has been involved with several boards, including the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and serves as Patron of the Indigo Foundation and several other organisations.

Generation Women is an award-winning cross-generational storytelling night founded in New York in 2017, Sydney in 2018 and Melbourne in 2020. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s and her 70s+.

This event is proudly presented by Generation Women Australia, founded by Donna Logue. The event will be hosted by Charlie. Generation Women was created by Georgia Clark.

THE BERESFORD

354 BOURKE ST, SURRY HILLS NSW 2016

DOORS AT 6.30 PM, SHOW AT 7 PM

Want access to discounted tickets? Become a Generation Women Member to get $10 off the price of your ticket. More info here.

Every powerful woman has someone who inspired her. This March, we’re highlighting those heroes — the mothers, mentors and icons who’ve lifted us up and showed us what’s possible. From life lessons to moments of sheer grit, these stories are tributes to the women who make us stronger. Join us in celebrating female role models who’ve changed lives.

Our performer line-up:

Team 20s Skye Cusack is a Dulgubarra-Yidinji and Indonesian writer who has somehow made a career out of ‘constructive complaining’ — otherwise known as activism. Skye founded the creative advocacy agency Project Loudly, is a reporter for the ABC and is working with the publisher Magabala Books to develop a fiction manuscript.

Team 30s Dr Morley Muse  is an award-winning Chemical, Environmental, and Renewable-Energy Engineer, co-founder of iSTEM Co. and DEIR.AI, and Board Director at Women in STEMM Australia. A champion for equity and diversity in STEM, she drives innovation in energy transition and workforce inclusion, earning accolades for her transformative leadership and social impact.

Team 40s Jaclyn Crupi is a book editor, author, event moderator and bookseller. Her book, Garden Like a Nonno, was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award and longlisted for an ABIA. Her children’s book, The ABC Kids Guide to Loving the Planet, won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature.

Team 50s Sarah Hayden is a qualified social worker, equine-assisted psychotherapist, author and Mayor of Golden Plains Shire. She is also mum to five amazing kids, including actor, author and autism advocate Chloé Hayden. Her first book is Parenting Different: How to raise your neurodivergent kids to be their authentic, awesome selves. 

Team 60s Jo Peck worked in advertising for 35 years, co-running Melbourne's first female-led agency, Working Girls Advertising, for 20 of those years. She is now retired and writing for pleasure. Suddenly Single at Sixty is her first book.

Team 70s Mig Dann is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher who completed her PhD in 2022. Her work is informed by memory and forgetting, absence and presence, feminism, queer culture and decades of lived experience. Her work has been exhibited both internationally and nationally in solo and group shows.

Generation Women is an award-winning cross-generational storytelling night founded in New York in 2017, Sydney in 2018 and Melbourne in 2020. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s and her 70s+.

Hosted by Rebecca Lister. Produced by Donna Logue, Hopepunk Productions. Created by Georgia Clark.

HOWLER

7-11 DAWSON ST, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056

DOORS AT 6.30 PM, SHOW AT 7 PM

Want access to discounted tickets? Become a Generation Women Member to get $10 off the price of your ticket. More info here.