Feminists have had plenty to be opinionated about in 2020 and 2021. The pandemic exposed gender inequity in the workforce with lockdowns impacting particularly on industries with high female participation. Lockdowns also made it more difficult for women to leave abusive relationships. And then, there were the events in our nation’s capital – violence against women, sexual harassment, side eyes, thinking about rape like a father, mansplaining about how women should behave when invited to Kirribilli House, and so on.

Millicent Sarre is Opinionated, Adelaide Fringe, 2022. Photo supplied

Self-confessed “professional feminist”, cabaret artist, songwriter and proudly qualified but non-practicing lawyer Millicent Sarre has had enough of misogynist patriarchy and is on a mission to bring it to its knees. In a self-penned show of songs and monologue, and accompanying herself on piano, Sarre demonstrated that she had plenty to offer artistically and that second wave (or are we in the third wave?) feminists not only continue to fight on fundamental issues of reproductive rights and pay inequity, but have broadened the debate to tackle more insidious forms of misogyny.

Before Jenny Morrison could scream “manners”, Sarre had...