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Professor Catharine Lumby founded the media departments at both of Sydney's big ivy-league universities, UNSW and Sydney University, where she remains the department chair.
An icon of the Australian left, Lumby started out as a fiery third-wave feminist writing extensively about the media, sex and social justice. She became a journalist, columnist and feature writer at Australia's biggest newspapers, and spent the 1990s in New York before doing her PhD about tabloid journalism.
Now a Professor in Media & Communications, Lumby joins Josh to reflect on university activism over the course of her career, changes to feminism, social justice, anti-Zionism and trans rights.
She respectfully requests that you not cancel her for this conversation.
