Positive Masculinity

Tarang Chawla

Tarang Chawla is an award-winning keynote speaker, writer, advocate and recovering lawyer. He serves as Commissioner at the Victorian Multicultural Commission where he works to bring the voices and lived experiences of culturally diverse people to policymakers. He is also the co-founder of Not One More Niki, a grassroots non-profit working to end men’s violence against women named in memory of his younger sister Nikita who was murdered by her partner in 2015. Tarang is also a sessional academic at Monash University and wrote, produced and hosted the acclaimed podcast There’s No Place Like Home. Earlier, Tarang was a founding board member of the Victim Survivors’ Advisory Council (VSAC) alongside 2015 Australian of the Year, Rosie Batty, where he advised both state and federal governments on family violence reform. He is a former Young Australian of the Year Finalist, twice listed as one of the Top 25 Most Influential People working for Social Change and named as one of Australia’s Top 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians.

Michael Flood

Professor Michael Flood is an internationally recognised researcher on men, masculinities, and gender, violence against women, and violence prevention. He has made significant contributions to scholarly and public understanding of men’s involvements in preventing violence against women and building gender equality, and to scholarship and programming regarding violence and violence prevention. Professor Flood is the author of Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention (2019), the co-author of Masculinity and Violent Extremism (2022), and the lead editor of Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality (2015) and The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (2007). He is also an advocate and educator.

Anna Krien

Anna Krien is the author of Act of Grace (2019), Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport (2013) and Into the Woods: The battle for Tasmania’s forests (2010) and Quarterly Essays, Us and Them: On the importance of animals and The Long Goodbye: Coal, coral and Australia’s climate deadlock (2012, 2017). She is a regular contributor to The Monthly magazine and The Saturday Paper. 

Photo: Jesse Marlow

Monty Badami

Monty Badami is an Anthropologist and the Founder of Habitus, a social enterprise that gives you Lifehacks to be a Good Human. Monty combines evolutionary evidence with cross-cultural research to explain the secret to our adaptability and success as a species. He designs and delivers workshops that help people put more meaning and joy back into their lives.  Monty also works closely with schools and communities and uses the profits from Habitus to help teachers, students and parents to connect through stories and learn through play. He works closely with men and boys, running Rites of Passage programs, and he runs a series called “Brave Conversations”, where he uses his anthropological knowledge to challenge the norms of toxic masculinity as well as other stereotypes of class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and race.