Too Much Too Young

How do teenagers and parents navigate sexual imagery in popular culture? Modern day families looking for answers are invited to join the conversation with celebrated Australian social commentator, Melinda Tankard Reist.

Melinda will address two audiences in back to back talks.

Program

7.00-8.00pm

“The sexualisation of teenagers and what to do about it” (Adult session with Melinda Tankard Reist)

8.15-9.30pm

“Navigating a sexed-up world” (Youth session with Melinda Tankard Reist)

Adults free time in the café

Bookings essential.

Melinda Tankard Reist

Melinda Tankard Reist  is an author, speaker, media commentator, blogger and advocate for women and girls. She is best known for her work addressing sexualisation, objectification, harms of pornography, sexual exploitation, trafficking and violence against women.

Melinda is author/editor of five books including Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (Spinifex Press, 2009), now in its 9th printing, Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (Spinifex Press, 2011, co-edited with Dr Abigail Bray) and her new release Prostitution Narratives: Stories of survival in the sex trade. (Spinifex Press, 2016, co-edited with Dr Caroline Norma)

An opinion writer, Melinda is also a regular on morning television and has appeared on ABC’s Q&A and The Gruen Sessions as well as many other TV and radio programs.

Melinda is co-founder of the grassroots campaigning movement, Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation, exposing corporations, advertisers and marketers who objectify women and sexualise girls to sell products and services. An ambassador for World Vision Australia, Compassion Australia and the Raise Foundation, Melinda is named in the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the World Who’s Who of Women.