The Business of Beauty
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Lucinda Price (aka Froomes) I Rebecca Reynolds I Chloe Elisabeth Wilson I Yumi Stynes
Women’s bodies are a battleground for beauty capitalism with a constant pressure to reach unachievable beauty standards.
Writer, presenter and entertainer Lucinda Price (aka Froomes) spent 30 years striving to fulfil those standards, which she unpacks in her debut memoir, All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot: Self image, beauty ideals and desirability. Nutritionist and lecturer Rebecca Reynolds teamed up with mental health author Bev Aisbett to write Beyond the Body Bully: How to love the body you’re in to improve the way we think about our bodies. And writer and researcher Chloe Elisabeth Wilson satirises the cult-like world of beauty by turning it into a real cult in her debut novel Rytual.
Lucinda, Rebecca and Chloe discuss how they are helping to rewrite women’s relationships with beauty and their bodies, in conversation with Yumi Stynes.
This event is presented by the Sydney Writers' Festival and supported by UNSW Sydney.
UNSW SYDNEY X SYDNEY WRITERS' FESTIVAL
UNSW Sydney is the exclusive university sponsor and proud Premier Partner of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. Featuring UNSW academics and researchers on Sydney Writers’ Festival stages, this partnership brings together a shared vision of creativity, curiosity and thought leadership.
TICKETS & VENUE INFORMATION
Ticket Prices
Adult – $30
Concession – $20
Wheelchair User – $20
*plus booking fees
Venue Information
This event will take place live at Carriageworks. For all venue and visitor safety information, please visit Sydney Writers' Festival.
ACCESS
Wheelchair Access
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT & PARKING
Carriageworks is located at 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh. This is a 10 minute walk from Redfern Station, City Road bus stops and Macdonaldtown Station. Catching public transport is strongly recommended as residential parking in the area is strictly limited, and the Sydney Writers' Festival offers shuttle bus services from Redfern Station at selected times. For more information on transport, visit swf.org.au or visit transportnsw.info.
CONTACT
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Lucinda Price
Lucinda Price is the CEO of Froomesworld, an international one-woman business specialising in scripting, producing, presenting and editing original content. She has amassed a cult following online and earned an AACTA nomination for Best Digital Creator of 2022. Her writing work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC and Pedestrian, alongside her weekly newsletter with over 12,000 subscribers. She has also written for the 2021 ARIA Awards and ABC’s Question Everything and been a host on MTV Australia. Formerly the co-host of radio show and award-winning podcast Flex and Froomes, she has also hosted multiple limited series podcasts including Where Are All The Baby Pigeons for Nova. As a seasoned MC and entertainer, she’s appeared at some of Australia’s largest live events and stages, from Beyond The Valley to the Opera House, Ability Fest and Fed Live. Her sold-out debut show at the 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival was rated five stars by The Age. With a passion for taking the piss across multi-platform media, Froomes is a one-of-a-kind creative powerhouse.
Rebecca Reynolds
Rebecca Reynolds PhD is co-author of the self-help book, Beyond the Body Bully, a registered nutritionist with the Nutrition Society of Australia, a meditation teacher (provisional member with the Meditation Association of Australia) and an adjunct lecturer and researcher at the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney.
Chloe Elisabeth Wilson
Chloe Elisabeth Wilson is a writer, former horse girl and avid Nicole Kidman fan based between Los Angeles and Naarm/Melbourne. Chloe graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Master of Screenwriting (First Class Honours) in 2019. Since graduating, she has had projects shortlisted for the Stan & VicScreen Comedy Fund and longlisted for the AWG Monte Miller Awards. Chloe participated in the VicScreen Originate Writers’ Seminar and the Australian Writers’ Guild’s First Break Victoria program and was a 2022 AiF Charlie’s resident in Los Angeles. Her work has been published by Refinery29, The Guardian and ABC Everyday. She currently works as a researcher for Shameless Media, where she assists in scripting some of Australia’s most popular podcasts. She also runs a monthly-ish newsletter called tall tales. Rytual is her first novel.
Yumi Stynes
Yumi Stynes hosts a national radio show on the KiiS network, The 3pm Pickup, and has written a series of guidebooks, including Welcome to Consent, which was recently named one of the New York Public Library's top 50 books of 2021. In spite of her history of TV presenting, Yumi is now best known for Ladies, We Need to Talk, which has been a cult podcast since it first dropped in 2017, spawning its own book and numerous ‘book’ clubs where women get together and unpack what they've heard after each new episode. If she dies tomorrow, she'll be glad that she got to co-write the definitive guidebook on what to do when you get your period.