Join us as Bronwyn Winter launches I Wish I Was A Lesbian: Women’s Lives Beyond Heterosexuality edited by Angela C. Wild.
What if heterosexuality wasn’t innate, but enforced and expected?
Can sexuality change?
Can any woman be a lesbian?
The book brings together women across cultures and generations – from lifelong lesbians reflecting through a lesbian feminist lens, to women consciously leaving heterosexuality behind to embrace lesbianism.
Across essays, poetry and artworks, I Wish I Was A Lesbian challenges the assumption that heterosexuality is natural or inevitable. It reopens conversations often shut down, and invites readers to examine the structures shaping women’s lives.
For women questioning heterosexuality, this book offers a space for political reflection and consciousness-raising – connecting personal experience with broader systems and asking: what is heterosexuality, and do I want to be part of it?
This is a live online event scheduled in Australian Eastern Time (AET).
Sydney / Melbourne: 6:00pm
Perth: 4:00pm
London: 9:00am
Paris: 10:00am
If you are unsure, please check your local time here.
Please note: This live session is primarily scheduled for audiences in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Europe. If you are based in North or South America, the session will likely fall at an inconvenient time.
We recommend watching the recording on our YouTube channel instead of registering for the live event.
About our Launcher
Bronwyn Winter is Professor Emerita of Transnational Studies, University of Sydney. She has also been a radical lesbian feminist activist for some five decades, in Australia, France, the UK and transnationally, and is currently national co-convenor of Australian Feminists for Women’s Rights (AF4WR). She is also involved in organising panels for FiLiA Women’s Liberation conferences in the UK. Her publications include September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives (Hawthorne and Winter eds, Spinifex 2002), which was the first transnational feminist anthology on 9/11 and aftermath; Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate (Syracuse University Press 2008); Women, Insecurity and Violence in a Post-9/11 World (Syracuse 2017); and The Political Economy of Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Critique (Routledge 2021). She now publishes independently on her Substack blog (bronwyndrw.substack.com) and writes the occasional villanelle for the new lesbian literary magazine Villanelle.