Feminism – Bossy

Memoir July 22, 2022July 22, 2022 by Bossy

Tales of a Sexless Second Year: Abstinence? A Good Thing?

The thing is, if I have sex with a guy and he doesn’t immediately fall in love with me, I’m annoyed. If I have sex with a guy and he does immediately fall in love with me, I’m annoyed. Tell me how I am meant to win here? I realised that this was because I craved the validation of guys telling me: “You’re the only one I can really open up to.” Until I registered the fact that I was only there to make them feel special and solve all their problems.

The Pleasure of Baking

I want to feel comfortable in the kitchen and have the ability to cook for others, without feeling like I’m submitting to anti-feminist gender stereotypes. Can society reach a stage where this act is classified as neither feminine nor shameful? Can women reclaim cooking without it becoming a troubling throwback to an age of inequality?

Print 2020 Review March 14, 2022April 7, 2022 by Bossy

Re-Introducing the Punk Feminist

For those of us who struggle to slick every strand of hair back into a Grande-esque ponytail, who cannot walk in heels without twisting an ankle or perform the choreography to ‘Single Ladies’ without falling over backwards, the punk movement provides much-needed respite.

Print 2020 Review March 7, 2022March 8, 2022 by Bossy

“I wonder if I’d get there quicker if I was a man”: Feminism, Girl Power and Pop Music

Music is universal; it can simultaneously bring people together and tear them apart. Recently in pop music, we have seen a rising emphasis on the importance of feminism, sisterhood, and girl power.

Opinion Print 2020 September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 by Bossy

#MeToo, #KuToo, and #MiTu: What Does the Movement Mean in My Country?

The rampant abuse of power by men in executive positions that #MeToo revealed, opened a new conversation about the intersection of gender and power.

Opinion Print 2020 August 27, 2021September 10, 2021 by Bossy

Self-Care: The Serpent of the Mental Health Movement

The sad irony is that the self-care movement initially began as a reaction to institutional shortcomings in the treatment of marginalised communities—women of colour and women who identify as LGBTQIA+.

Print 2020 Review April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 by Bossy

The Pressure to Optimise: Why A Room of One’s Own is Still Relevant

Woolf identifies money and space as the two things that women have been denied, but both are a means to the same end: attention. Undivided attention is required for any great work to be made.

Opinion March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 by Bossy

Marching 4 Justice

A painting depicting the placards mentioned in the article outside of Parliament House.

Neve Traynor reflects on Monday’s March4Justice in Canberra.

Opinion May 12, 2019May 12, 2019 by Gabriela Falzon

Why We Need to Talk about Gender-Based Violence on Mother’s Day This Year

I regularly hear from men that their mothers are sacred. That they respect mothers and therefore respect women. That they would do anything to protect their mothers.

But women are victims of a kind of violence that happens regardless of their motherhood status, or anything else. This violence occurs because they are women – and because we have a big problem in this country with gender-based violence.

Opinion January 7, 2019 by Bella Di Mattina

The Corporatisation of Feminism

It’s not an extraordinary moment when I see a Covergirl #girlscan image on the Internet, or when a Dove #realbeauty advertisement bursts before my buffering Youtube video. But, I’ve always been sceptical of companies using feminism for profit.

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