Pigeonholed! Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance

We are incredibly honoured to have visiting author, journalist and professor Gary Younge visiting Australia and dropping in to Bookoccino to discuss his recent Faber Lecture publication "Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance".

Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he now sits on the board of The Nation magazine. Recent awards include the 2025 Robert B. Silvers Award for Journalism and the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism.

In this incisive, moving and personal essay, one of the UK's leading political voices, explores the 'burden of representation'.

Gary Younge analyses the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people from underrepresented communities, who break through into elite spaces and the expectations that may come from above, below, within and outwith, from those with power and those without. These are issues that have framed, frustrated, inspired, and inflected his entire working life as a writer.

Younge offers reflections on how to navigate representation, power and responsibility while keeping your job, your sanity and your freedom both as a human being and as a writer.

Tickets are free and strictly limited. Don't miss out on this chance to hear one of the world's great public intellectuals share his experience and insight on the world today.