Ruby Hamad
Ruby Hamad is an Australian journalist, op-ed writer, and public speaker. She has written articles in The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC News (Australia), Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Life, Eureka Street[1], Crikey[2], The Guardian, and The Saturday Paper. Her public speaking includes giving the 2017 International Women's Day keynote speech and Feminist Intersection - In Conversation (with Celeste Liddle) for the Queen Victoria Women's Centre, and hosting panels at Melbourne Writers Festival and Newcastle Writers Festival.
Personal life[edit]
Hamad grew up in Sydney Australia as the second-youngest of seven children.[3][4] She is of Lebanese and Syrian descent.[4]
Education[edit]
Hamad has a bachelor's degree in Political Economy from the University of Sydney. She is a graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts, where she majored in film writing and directing.[5] She has a master's degree in journalism and media practice from the University of Sydney, and teaches part-time in history and social sciences at the University of Western Sydney.[6]
Early writings[edit]
Hamad describes her early writings as "focused primarily on overtly feminist issues including gender representation in popular culture, the treatment of women in the Arab world, and the virgin-whore dichotomy."[3] She cites reading The Sexual Politics of Meat as a personal watershed moment in realising that eating animals acts as mirror and representation of patriarchal values, with a focus on the line "If meat is a symbol of male dominance then the presence of meat proclaims the disempowering of women", stating meat reminded her of her powerlessness as a child.[3]
In 2008 Hamad wrote for Australian e-journal Online Opinion.[5] In 2012 Hamad became a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life, writing there for five years.[6]
Later work[edit]
Ruby Hamad is an Associate Editor for the progressive feminist publication The Scavenger[7] where she states her passion is for pursuing social justice, including justice for the most vulnerable amongst us, non-human animals.
Hamad has been asked to critique the writing of other Arab and Muslim women, including Fighting Hislam by Susan Carland and Beyond Veiled Cliches: The Real Lives of Arab Women by Amal Awad.[8]
In 2017-18 Hamad produced an essay series on the cultural and political significance of food for SBS.[9][10][11][12][13] Also for SBS in this time period, Hamad created a series on the real people behind mental illness, including myth-busting that helped shape public opinion on the stigma of sufferers.[14][15][16][17][18]
Books[edit]
- Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat. Edited by Kara Davis and Wendy Lee, with a foreword by Carol J. Adams. Published March 2013 by Lantern Books.[19][20] [21](Chapter: Halal by Ruby Hamad)
Film[edit]
Ruby Hamad is a graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts, where she majored in film writing and directing. While living in Melbourne she worked on[clarification needed] a feature film script.[5] Returning to Sydney, Hamad was developing several feature film scripts in 2011.[22]
Hamad is known for her work[clarification needed] on Pure (2013), The Road Not Taken (2004) and A Short Portrait of Zora Zakowski (2003).[23]
References[edit]
- ↑ "'Both sides' journalism betrays the public interest". www.eurekastreet.com.au. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "What leaders are really doing when they call Arab nations 'regimes'". Crikey. 2017-09-27. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Intersecting oppressions: perspectives from a Muslim vegan feminist". Scavenger. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "My mum's grapevine is our family's lifeline". Food. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Ruby Hamad - On Line Opinion Author". On Line Opinion. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Queen Victoria Women's Centre International Women's Day Address: Ruby Hamad – Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and the Global South: When Feminism and Neoliberalism Collide | QVWC.org.au". www.qvwc.org.au. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ "Staff". www.thescavenger.net. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ Hamad, Ruby (2017-07-21). "Uncovering the myths of Muslim women". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ "Why food is another way for your family to say 'I love you'". Food. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "Long before the eggplant emoji, art has used food in suggestive ways". Food. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "Comment: The real history of tahini". Food. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "Why Hitler wasn't a vegetarian and the Aryan vegan diet isn't what it seems". Food. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "My mum's grapevine is our family's lifeline". Food. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "The truth about personality disorders". Topics. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "Sex addiction: When too much isn't enough". Topics. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "The emotional turbulence of borderline personality disorder". Topics. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "It's (not really) all about me: Inside the mind of a narcissist". Topics. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "Abused as children, feared as adults: the extreme trauma behind dissociative identity disorder". Topics. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of Meat". lanternbooks.com. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ Adams, Carol (2014-03-01). Davis, Kara; Lee, Wendy, eds. Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of Meat. Lantern Books. ASIN 1590564197. ISBN 9781590564196.CS1 maint: ASIN uses ISBN (link) Search this book on
- ↑ "Defiant Daughters". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ "Save the world with salad". eurekastreet.com.au. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ "Ruby Hamad". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
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