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Girl Powers
“A witch’s powers – coming from within and being inherently feminine in nature – are thus particularly threatening to male-centric power structures.” Read more
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Student Guide to Self-Care
“Know that you are important, and that taking the time to care for your physical, emotional and mental health is crucial. Remember that you are stronger than you think, and with every breath you take, you help plants and flowers live!” Read more
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Out of Time, Out of (My) Mind?
“Now, although obviously not broken, the glass ceiling has been chipped enough so that the broken shards offer women a reflection of life at the top.” Read more
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Modern Chivalry: From Sleeping Beauty to Woke Beauty
“… the main problem in her not-so-fair kingdom: chivalry had become synonymous with chauvinism. Really, the two concepts had about as much in common as a poison apple and a spinning wheel!” Read more
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The ANU Women’s Department in 2017
Letter from the 2017 ANUSA women’s officer Holly Zhang There’s nothing quite like the clarity of hindsight to give one a broader perspective on things. Reflecting on my term, I can almost see the contours of the (often stormy) seasons that we went through, and feel the overlapping waves of women advocates who have carried, Read more
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Online Campaigning: What Do Your Actions Really Achieve?
“So, I concluded that adding a filter would be nothing more than a self-satisfying, unproductive attempt to show others how compassionate and worldly I was.” Read more
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Home, I’ve Heard the Word Before
“Definitions of home seem to be everywhere, from the stories our friends tell to the throw pillows and inspirational posters that litter the homes of our grandparents.” Read more
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Life Imitating Art: On Harvey Weinstein
“If Oscar Wilde believed that life imitates art far more than art imitates life, then activist action used in existing movements can be applied in the movie business.” Read more
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Sex That (Doesn’t) Matter: Our Discursive Limits on Sex
“I find our status quo definition of sex not only incredibly narrow, exclusive and heterosexual, but also devaluing of other forms of sexual expression and intimacy that comprise the whole experience that is actually sex – foreplay, oral sex and fingering (to name a few).” Read more
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Double Whammy – Being Both Young and a Woman
“I am a sufferer of imposter syndrome and I wholeheartedly believe that the intersection of my age and gender has something to do with it.” Read more
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