Fem Book Club: No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura

Schedule

Wed Jul 20 2022 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

Location

Centre for Stories | Perth, WA

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Fem Book Club is an introduction to a diverse range of texts by women about women. Through informal conversation about each text we will focus on the manifold experiences of being a woman through different moments in history and across varying communities. It is an opportunity to think about and challenge what it means to be a woman and perhaps undermine any assumed universal experience of ‘feminism’ or what it is to be a ‘woman’.
This is a welcoming and safe space. We encourage participation from LGBTI women, men, trans and gender diverse persons and non-binary persons.
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During this session of Fem Book Club, we’ll be discussing 'No Such Thing as an Easy Job' by Kikuko Tsumura.
A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little thinking.
She is sent to a nondescript office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end can be so inconvenient and tiresome. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly – how did she find herself in this situation in the first place?
As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she’s not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful…
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Please note that proof of double vaccination (or medical exemption) is required when entering the Centre for Stories.
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Centre for Stories, 100 Aberdeen St, Perth, Australia

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