“The Consent Matters Module has been branded as a tokenistic, ‘band-aid’-style approach to what is actually a much broader and more serious issue: rape culture. The argument is that this issue cannot miraculously be solved through watching stories acted out by cartoon figures and checking boxes on a screen.”
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Can Cartoons Really Stop Sexual Violence?
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Love As a Transaction: Calculating the Share of Emotional Labour
“The issue of emotional labour, and most notably women’s often unequal share of the load, has been hotly contested in recent times. Some describe it as one of the new frontiers of modern-day feminism, while others are sceptical and see it as overanalysing the situation or ascribing unnecessary blame.”
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Boss Feminists? There’s No Such Thing As Trickle-Down Feminism
“‘Corporate Feminism’ or ‘Neoliberal Feminism’ are misnomers because the movements are fundamentally incompatible.”
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“This Is So Good You Wouldn’t Know It Was Done By a Woman”
“The names Gentileschi, Nelli, Hoch, Schendel, Hanworth and Frankenthaler remain unfamiliar to most — and googling ‘women artists in history’ presents results almost entirely about ‘the one’s history forgot’.”
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A Letter to My Distraught Self
"Ideally, I would’ve indulged in careful thought before letting words flow onto this screen, but maybe, for once, I wanted this to be as spontaneous, reckless, with no ends or meanings attached, as you always wanted life to be …"
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Queerbaiting On Paradise Island
“Many viewers found it hard to reconcile what seemed to be two incompatible notions: being on The Bachelor ... and being in a relationship with a woman.”
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Girls Just Want To Parity
Why aren’t there more women in Parliament?
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Exploring the Social Model of Disability
“Disability” is not a condition but the way society is structured to oppress certain individuals.
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Changing the Culture of Gender At ANU
Sexual harassment, assault and misogyny are not shocking for me as they are for Professor Schmidt.
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Aunty Dusty: An Everyday Feminist Hero
“I first became interested in Aunty Dusty’s feminist story when I discovered she wore a pantsuit to her own wedding, instead of a gown. This one action is what inspired me to conduct this interview, in an attempt to learn more about her life experiences, and the moments that shaped her into the powerful woman she is.”