Brooke Olsen is a Sydney based broadcaster, producer and curator. She has freelanced for ABC Radio National and created original radio productions for 2SER, FBi, Underbelly Festival and Liquid Architecture. She currently presents award-winning experimental music program ‘Ears Have Ears’ on FBi radio Sydney. Brooke has been involved in many off-air music projects also including Sound Summit Festival, Dirty Shirlows venue & the Ears Have Ears Presents live series.
The theme of IWD in 2014 is Inspiring Change - tell us about one woman you think has inspired change in the world Kathleen Hanna, who was at the forefront of the 90’s Riot Grrl movement and a member of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin has inspired much change in my world personally as well as shaping more broadly views, attitudes and politics around contemporary music. I believe that she reinvigorated the feminist movement, broadening it’s appeal to teenage girls of that era. On a personal level, during my teens Bikini Kill spoke to me in a way that very few other bands could.
