Events
NEWCASTLE WRITERS FESTIVAL
THINGS WE DON’T SPEAK ABOUT: SEX
April 6, 3pm
In this new series of conversations about issues we don’t speak about, we invite authors to share how they interrogate tough topics in their writing lives.
Esme Louise James, Alecia Simmonds and Yumi Stynes discuss sex, taboo and relationships from the past to the present. Hosted by Elfy Scott.
SYDNEY WRITERS FESTIVAL
HISTORY OF SEX
May 24, 6pm
How did sex begin? How did it evolve to become so varied and complex in humans? And what could sex look like for future generations?
Hosted by evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks, this blush-worthy panel discussion features sex historian Esmé Louise James and historian David Baker. Esmé adapted her wildly popular TikTok series into a book, Kinky History: The Stories of Our Intimate Lives, Past and Present, and David’s Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation charts sex’s evolution from early life to sexbots.
Bone up on carnal knowledge across the centuries and find out what the future of fornication holds, in conversation with evolutionary biologist Robert Brooks.
