Tavi's World at the Melbourne Writers Festival

Tavi Gevinson was a keynote speaker at the Melbourne Writers Festival and she packed out the Athanaeum Theatre with young women wearing 'Tavi headgear' the bunches of roses that she used to wear when she was 11 or 12, and their mums and the odd dad.
Here, she's giving her 'fangirl' keynote speech.
It's worth taking a look at Rookie, her online magazine for young women.
Estelle Tang is the breathless interviewer.
Melbourne Writers Festival website: www.mwf.com.au/...
ABC Big Ideas: www.abc.net.au/...

[@AvecPoesie]

I always return to this...Tavi is and has LONG been in possession of a remarkably intelligent, fascinating mind. 🖤 I much appreciate her delving into the subject of her Journals/Diaries.

[@brierosa2588]

I’ve been trying to find this talk for so long. Tavi did this talk more than once, but it’s this particular performance that I love because of the way she describes her aesthetic associations (starting around 23:00). She’s truly describing an underrated, seldom-acknowledged phenomenon that I used to experience so much in my adolescence: those maps she draws, in her mind and on paper, connecting light to song lyric to movie scene to location back to light… they’re brilliant because they are beautiful, but also because they’re tangible results of a magnificent symptom of a period of life that, unfortunately, gets written off as a time of ignorance, naivety, and idealism.

[@y2kayleigh]

This is my most favorite speech in the world :)

[@koawaygoaway]

I watched this talk so many times.
It's amazing

[@eileentanph2272]

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