Join us for the online book launch of Over the Rainbow: A Challenge to Cancel Culture.

Why have liberal democracies with proud traditions of democracy and free speech become both obsessed with hate speech laws and anxious about offending citizens’ feelings?

The writers and editors in Over the Rainbow examine how concerns about the welfare of a small minority have been turned into an ideology that challenges the rights of women, lesbians, and gay men, as well as gaining control of many of the institutions of our society. Even biology and science itself are under threat. A new set of ‘facts’ about sex and gender swept across the English-speaking world and Europe over the past decade disrupting Green and left parties’ long-standing commitments to the rights of women.

Over the Rainbow brings together writers with expertise from community services, therapy and medicine, politics and theory, workplace and sporting culture, the arts and law to explore the stultifying impact that dogmatic adherence to trans ideology has had on everyday life and culture. Together they articulate the underpinning theory and philosophy of gender ideology and explain how these ideas are being applied within organisations and entrenched in government legislation in a way that overrides free speech and shuts down dissent. This new trans dogma has embedded itself across the English-speaking world and the book includes writers from the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, as well as Australia to illustrate its rigidity and negative impacts on civic culture. Free speech and civil society organisations have been essential to the success of representative democracy.

The writers in this book hope to contribute to a re-opening of civic discourse.

The book will be launched by Sall Grover.

Sall Grover is the founder of the Giggle app, a social networking platform exclusively for women. Before that, she worked in the film industry in the US. In 2022, Roxanne Tickle made a complaint against Giggle. In 2024, the Federal Court ruled against Sall and after she appealed in 2025, the Federal Court once again ruled against her with increased costs and fine. Sall is the mother of a young daughter whom, she says, is the reason she is fighting for the rights of women to have their own spaces.