Author talk with Eloise Grills

Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, big beautiful female theory is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society’s expectations. Without falling into a simple recovery narrative, these essays also resonate with humour, which gives a sense of delight and optimism in defiance of difficult circumstances and unfair patriarchal structures.

With breathtaking honesty and fierce wit, Eloise Grills turns her life, her body and her mind into art, confronting what it means to grow up in an increasingly unfathomable world.

About Eloise

Eloise Grills is an award-winning artist and writer living on Dja Dja Wurrung land. Her illustrated memoir-in-essays, big beautiful female theory, is out now with Affirm Press. Her work has been published by The Nib, The Rumpus, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and others. Her comics, poetry and essays have won the Melbourne Writers’ Prize, the Lifted Brow x RMIT…