Dr Lawford-Smith, a New Zealander and Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, has written extensively on women’s rights and the issues surrounding gender identity. She has faced attempts to deplatform her, attacks on her employment, and even denigration from the New Zealand Green Party; a recent email to Green Party members in the wake of the furore over Jill Abigail’s article in Te Awa gave as suggested reading a blog post aimed at discrediting her work. Dr Lawford-Smith will speak about the conflation of gender with sex in law, and how ‘cancel culture’ is operating within universities.