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WOW Big Ideas are stories and talks from women, girls and non-binary people about everything from their toughest realities, to their greatest joys and triumphs and so much in between. Designed to blow your mind and change your world view, and drawing from our WOW global community, each WOW Big Ideas session hears from speakers, performers, activists and thinkers – some familiar, some newly discovered.

WOW Big Ideas will challenge you, move you, delight and inspire you – and will be with you long after you leave.

Speakers include:

  • Yassmin Abdel-Magied on a day in the life on an oil rig - and her hopes for Sudan, her home country
  • Midnight Adams on menstruation under siege, and stories of period inequality in displacement.
  • Akanchha Karki on a great story of justice, gender and the law - and the bold journey of bringing internationally acclaimed one-woman courtroom drama Prima Facie to Kathmandu
  • Dr Daniella Jenkins on why pensions are feminist (and what every woman needs to know)
  • Stephanie Singer on why she's creating a Rave Opera - and her search for a meeting point between healing and justice.

Chaired by WOW’s Director of Festivals and Programmes Domino Pateman.

Domino Pateman

(she/her)Director of Festivals & Programmes

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

(she/her)

Midnight Adams

(she/her)

Akanchha Karki

(she/her)

Dr Daniella Jenkins

(she/her)

Stephanie Singer

(she/her)