“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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Confessions of a Nanny
“Openly talking about the financial strain of childcare and implying that your nanny and her absurd monetary demands are directly contributing to said strain is an unfair stress to level on an employee — you wouldn’t bully a plumber or an electrician to provide free or cheap labour because renovation is expensive.”
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Bossy x Woroni: Perspectives On International Feminism
On International Women's Day 2018, we caught up with some members of the ANU Women's Department to talk about intersectionality.
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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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The Anger of a Powerless Creature
“While anger and sadness are certainly not polarising, I believe that anger typically emerges when you attribute the cause of an unfair, unjust or simply unideal situation that occurs to an external source: the world, a person, or a context. I believe that there is an overwhelming anger to always feeling powerless; as a child, as a woman, as a person of colour and as a disabled person.”
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On the Things I Don’t Say
“There is a moment between when you mention sexual abuse victims and when I speak my next words, where I decide my identity for this conversation.”
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Reasonable Adjustments
“I read the latest reply in the email thread with my lecturer, close my eyes, and feel my heart sink and chest tighten as I prepare for the all too familiar battle ahead. My faith in the system has been jaded by years of veiled requests to prove the legitimacy and severity of my illness over and over again. EAP be damned.”
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Local Student Kate Hailed ‘Really Nice Girl’
“After consultation with numerous* students at ANU it has been concluded that Kate, who listens to her female friends talk for long periods of time and sometimes looks after them when they’re drunk, is a really stand-up girl.”
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Are You God?: Religion And Affection
“When I first met Matthew, I was very religiously confused. I was also angry and distracted, but mostly scared and woefully ignorant.”
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Have You Tried a Heat Pack?
“When I finally came across a specialist who took me seriously, I meekly told her: ‘I promise I’m not lying.’ But by that point, I wasn’t even convinced.”