It’s more of a nook, I guess – a small area a few steps above the back of the lobby, with a shelf full of books that seem more decorative than anything else, and certainly no silence. The plan had originally been to talk in the library, but it too was a strange place – not at all what one thinks of when we hear the word ‘library’. Stranger lives in Sydney, and has come to the hotel to meet us. Elva is staying here ahead of a talk with Stranger at the Sydney Opera House’s All About Women festival in a few hours. Around this table sit Thordis Elva, Tom Stranger, and me. Near the door, there’s a small round table with a sofa chair on either side. The empty ‘business room’ of the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth is a very small, windowless space, a few computers lined against a wall with wooden partitions between them. Cayley Facebook Twitter Email This article discusses sexual violence. But, she said, protest was most effective when it disrupted people’s lives and the balance had to be struck.A.H. Lindy West, a Seattle-based writer and commentator also in Sydney for the All About Women festival, said many women could not afford to lose a day’s pay, let alone risk their job. A new campaign, A Day Without Women, calls for all women to strike to show how undervalued they are in the workforce. “We are trying to flip that narrative and say that is wrong and responsibility needs to be taken, even when the legal system can’t cater to it.”ĭonald Trump loomed large over the panel discussion, which opened with a question about the effectiveness of protest following the Women’s March after his inauguration. It was a bid to counteract the normalisation of sexual assault as “part of men’s culture and locker room talk”, she said. It is about a rapist giving voice to the immeasurable hurt that he caused.” In response to Jones’s remark that many found it “confronting” to see Elva share a stage with her rapist, she said: “It is not about applauding the rapists. “I am one of the millions of people whose case fell through the cracks of the legal system.” She said that rape and sexual violence were under-reported and those who did go through the courts were met with “too lenient” punishments.
Elva later clarified that she received the “overwhelming royalties” as the primary author of South of Forgiveness, the book she wrote with Stranger, who received a “small part” and was looking into the possibility of donating it to charity.
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