Brodie Lancaster is a writer, editor and occasional DJ based in Melbourne. Her writing has appeared in Rookie, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Jezebel, Vulture, Hello Mr, The Walkley Magazine, Junkee, Noisey and The Pitchfork Review. She has spoken at TEDxYouth, Melbourne Writers Festival, Emerging Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers’ Festival, Drunk TED Talks and the EMP Pop Conference. Her debut novel is No Way! Okay, Fine, a book which she says is “the story of my life through the lenses of pop culture and feminism. I like to think of each chapter as a standalone story, and when you read them all together they form a wider narrative about what it means to be a young girl/young woman/eventual adult woman today.” This book was shortlisted for The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2015. Below she lists her top five feminist reads. Brodie Lancaster’s Five Feminist Reads Shrill by Lindy West I read the first chapter of Lindy West’s memoir while I was writing my own, and knew instantly I had to put it away because it felt too close to the bone. By the time I’d finished writing mine, I returned to Shrill and vacillated between tears (reading about what...
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