Work It, Girl

Lucinda ‘Froomes’ Price (All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot), Sinead Stubbins (Stinkbug) and Cher Tan (Peripaethic) discuss the frontline of late-stage capitalism in a girl boss era. 

LUCINDA 'FROOMES' PRICE

Lucinda Price (aka Froomes) is a writer, broadcaster and comedian.

Her debut book, All I Ever Wanted Was To Be Hot, is a provocative look at the last thirty years of Western beauty standards. An instant best-seller, it won an Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year. Price was also nominated for the 2025 Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year.

She has built a cult following online as the 'CEO' of FROOMESWORLD, an international one-woman business specialising in scripting, producing, presenting and editing original content. Her writing has appeared in most major Australian mastheads, alongside her weekly newsletter with over 13,000 subscribers.

With a passion for taking the piss across multi-platform media, Froomes is a one-of-a-kind creative powerhouse.

SINEAD STUBBINS

Sinead Stubbins is a Melbourne/Naarm-based writer, editor and cultural critic, and the author of In My Defence, I Have No Defence. Her work appears in print, online and on TV.

CHER TAN

Cher Tan was born in Singapore in 1987 and moved to unceded Kaurna land (so-called 'Adelaide') in 2012. She learned how to write through making zines and blogging. Her essays, criticism and other written work have been published widely. She is the reviews editor at Meanjin and an editor at Liminal, and currently lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land. Peripathetic is her first book.