Wednesday, 18 Mar
18:30
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6:30pm
Running Time 2 hours
Venue St Peter's School, St Peter's School, Clifton
Wed 18 Mar 2026
More Details + Share + Book TicketsActivist, writer, speaker and journalist Laura Bates joins us at St Peter’s Memorial Hall to deliver an eye-opening keynote showcasing the subject of her latest bestseller, The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny.
Covering topics such as workplace sexual harassment to school sexism, women in tech to online abuse, Bates’ is an urgent and captivating voice against gender inequality. Do not miss this talk where Bates’ will present her stance on AI and what she deems sexism in “a new age”.
Laura Bates is an activist, writer, speaker and journalist. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality. The project raises awareness of sexism, provides a cathartic and empowering space for survivors’ stories to be heard and believed, and uses those stories to create real-world change in partnership with politicians, businesses and organisations from the United Nations to the Council of Europe.
Laura is a bestselling author of 9 books, which have been translated into 7 languages. Her first book, Everyday Sexism, published by Simon & Schuster in 2014, was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and Polemic of the Year at the Political Book Awards. Her second book, Girl Up, a survival guide for teenage girls, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Men Who Hate Women, a groundbreaking undercover investigation into the world of incels and the terrorism nobody is talking about, was named one of the best books of the year by The Guardian and GQ in 2021. Fix the System, Not the Women, was published in May 2022 and provided the inspiration for a national anti-misogyny advertising campaign.
